Students-to-Students Strategy

The role of the Peer Mentoring programme is to encourage students to support each other. This helps build trust and meaningful relationships within the department, as DEN’s projects provide Year 2 and 3 students the valuable experience of being directly involved in mentoring new students, and enhancing their communication, leadership, and management skills, which will be important for their employability when they complete their degree.  

We started this programme with Open Day and Applicant Day, and later reached out to various communities, including those at colleges such as City and Islington College (CIC), to work with to BTEC students. Before the Covid-19 some of our UG students visited CIC several times to support the BTEC students. PIR students use their personal experience of making the transition to the university to help their mentees, the BTEC students at CIC.  

Another example of this mentoring strategy is the video recording series we have produced since the Covid-19 outbreak to support our students in a range of issues: from studying to managing their academic life from the Foundation Degree to Year 3 and their subsequent employment.