Personal Tutoring in Higher Education

CONTENTS:
1. Introduction;
2. Personal tutoring: A system in crisis?;
3. Widening participation and the increased need for personal tutoring;
4. Rescuing the personal tutor: Lessons in costs and benefits;
5. Student perspectives on personal tutoring: What do students want?;
6. Enhancing the first year experience through personal tutoring;
7. Putting students first: Developing accessible and integrated support;
8. Creating a network of student support;
9. Platoons to encourage social cohesion amongst a large and diverse undergraduate population;
10. Strategic approaches to the development and management of personal tutorial systems in UK higher education;
11. Changing practice in tutorial provision within post-compulsory education;
12. 'Who's looking after me?' - Supporting new personal tutors;
13. Issues for online personal tutoring: Staff perceptions from an online distance learning programme;
14. Working with a lack of structure: The experiences of supporting work based learning

Dr Liz Thomas is senior advisor for widening participation at the Higher Education Academy. Steven Barfield is senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Westminster, where Dr Paula Hixenbaugh is chartered counselling psychologist and Regent Campus senior tutor.