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Short-term working group on Personal Tutoring

The group has now concluded its work. The final report was produced in December 2005 and was approved by Senate in February 2006.

This site will not be updated further, but will remain as a record of the group's work. Further information on work to make the report 'live' is available on the Personal Tutoring website.

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Terms of Reference

In response to concerns raised by the Student Union, the group has been established to review the issue of personal tutoring at the University.

The group will report to Education Committee in the summer of 2005.

 

Membership

• Member of University Council as Chair (Mrs Alison Bernays)
• One or two representatives from each faculty, ideally with an understanding of undergraduate and postgraduate issues (one of which should be an Undergraduate or Graduate Dean) as proposed by the Working Groups of Graduate and Undergraduate Deans;
• President of the Student Union;
• Vice-President (Welfare) of the Student Union;
• Secretary from the Teaching Support Unit (Richard Edwards).

Workplan

The group will meet three times and will produce a report to Education Committee with its findings and recommendations. (Since the terms of reference and workplan were agreed, the group has decided to reconvene for an fourth meeting in the autumn term 2005/06.)

The group will:

a) review

• existing central University guidance
• the Student Union Student Support Survey results
• the annual report of student complaints where personal tutoring has been cited as an issue
• the proposed Welfare map referral tool project

b) examine

• What changes, if any, are necessary to the personal tutor system. For example, some departments have successfully used front-line administrative staff to field everyday pastoral queries and academic staff to undertake primarily academic support
• What can fairly be expected of personal tutors
• What can fairly be expected of tutees
• What revisions to the existing central guidance notes that may be necessary, for example to develop a list of expected outputs that faculties and departments can deliver as they wish
• Whether additional guidance notes may be necessary
• Any training that may be required: what this should include and what methods of delivery should be proposed

Agendas, papers and minutes (UoB access only)

Meeting 1: 12 April 2005	Agenda and papers | Minutes
Meeting 2: 3 May 2005	Agenda and papers | Minutes
Meeting 3: 25 May 2005	Agenda and papers | Minutes
Meeting 4: 5 December 2005	Agenda and papers | Minutes

Final report (post Education Committee), December 2005