Learning Mentors
All full time students have a Learning Mentor who is responsible for their pastoral support and supports their careers education and guidance programme. They are the person to contact for help, advice or information about anything to do with College life.
Tutorial Support
You will have support from a Course Tutor and a Learning Mentor who will:
- Help you settle in at College
- Help you review your progress individual and group sessions
- Act as a first point of call for any difficulties you may have
- Give you careers and UCAS help, advice and support
- Help you to develop a range of knowledge and skills to enable you to find employment
- Pass on relevant college-wide information
- Provide regular tutorial sessions to include topics such as study skills, health and lifestyle choices and personal safety.
If you have any suggestions for tutorial topics, please let your Learning Mentor know.
Stroud College is committed to supporting each student to:
- Develop, grow and achieve his/her potential
- Educationally and individually
- Within the college and beyond
Your tutorial programme
- Includes regular progress reviews
- Focuses on careers and personal development
- Acknowledges what has happened at school or in your working and home life
- Will help you to develop personal skills through setting you personal challenges
- Will help you develop study skills
- Includes individual and/or group tutorial sessions
- Provides careers and higher education advice and guidance, if relevant
What you can expect from your Learning Mentor and Tutor
In your induction
- A welcome and introduction to the College
- Explanation of the tutorial system
- Explanation of your rights and responsibilities as a Stroud College student
- A review of your qualifications, experience, achievements and interest, if not previously carried out
- A discussion of your career intentions and how you intend to achieve them, if relevant
- A check that the course is really the right one for you
- Help drawing up your initial action plan
During the course
- Help reviewing your progress, achievements and updating your action plan
- Help and advice, if you need it
- Co-ordination of the information from subject or unit/module teachers in preparing for reviews
- Help with difficulties you may experience in the college
- Help contacting student support staff if necessary
- An organised careers education programme, which prepares you for your career and helps you develop your skills for lifetime learning, if relevant
- Help developing personal skills such as decision making, time management, team working, communication and self presentation
- Information about College activities and deadlines
- Regular scheduled meetings with your tutor, group or individually
- Clear statements of what is expected of you as you prepare for review sessions
- Advocacy on your behalf within the College
Towards the end of the course
- Help making informed decisions about future education and career options
- Review sessions to update CVs and produce a personal statement, if relevant
- Collation of information on your progress and achievements for a reference for future use, if relevant
- Discussion and confirmation with you of your destination after leaving Stroud College
