Introduction

Mentoring happens in a variety of ways in many organisations. Sometimes it is an up-front, formalised process. Alternatively it can be very ad-hoc, and informal, and not even recognised as 'mentoring' by anyone involved. There are all shades of mentoring provision in between. These pages are mainly concerned with mentoring of teachers in higher education. The topic also covers related areas such as peer coaching and peer observation. Mentoring of students by fellow students is dealt with in the Peer Support and Study Skills section of Deliberations

Resource Materials

• Some Issues on Mentoring
  Discussions by Phil Race on issues such as What is mentoring? What does a mentor do? Should mentors be involved in assessment and probation?
  
• Bibliography
  A select bibliography on mentoring. Please send your suggestions for additions to this list.
  

Readers' Comments: A lively and continuous process of debate on learning and teaching in higher education is a key aim of Deliberations. We invite you to share your thoughts on this topic with other readers. Comments are posted in the comments archive.

We wish to encourage a lively and productive debate about Mentoring. We want to gather everyone's experience of mentoring: that means you, whether you are:

• someone who is a Mentor
• someone who is supposed to be doing someMentoring
• someone who has a Mentor
• someone who needs a Mentor
• someone who doesn't yet know whether they need a mentor!