Mentoring and Tutoring by Students

Programs involving students as tutors & mentors are now in place in many countries & the key task now is to build this into the basic structure of academic institutions so that systems acquire a greater degree of stability. The aim of this book is to stimulate & encourage the use of an educational technique through which teachers in tertiary & secondary education can massively amplify & extend their influence - by the deployment of students as tutors & mentors. The book offers: reviews of relevant research - case studies of mature projects - ideas for new uses of student tutoring & mentoring - practical suggestions of ways of implementing tutoring & mentoring.