MaÎtre à mentoring PROGRAMMA LEONAROD DA VINCI Middlesex University & BHR

Consulting• Run the higher education mentoring

network for English universities• Undertake research and evaluation of

mentoring programmes e.g. Blackwell International Handbook of Mentoring

• Do international consultancy work, e.g. Coach2Be in the Netherlands

• Conduct development work for mentoring & e-mentoring programmes

MaÎtre à mentoring PROGRAMMA LEONAROD DA VINCI Mentoring growth points in the UK

• University students acting as mentors to school students

• Business mentors supporting school students’ enterprise projects

• Peer mentoring and tutoring in schools• Project focused e-mentoring schemes• Mentoring for social inclusion and for 15-19s not

in education, training or a job• Mentoring for refugees and black and minority

ethnic young people – role modelling• Weak area – mentoring as part of vocational

programmes & apprenticeships

MaÎtre à mentoring PROGRAMMA LEONAROD DA VINCI Lessons of MaiTre for UK

• Range of definitions of mentoring• Importance of cultural factors & legal framework

for mentoring to grow in some countries• Difficulties in growing mentoring in vocational

programmes & apprenticeships• Differences in training styles• Need to look beyond the US for models and

ideas – and the emergence of a network of European partners interested in mentoring

• Richness of ideas gained from working with the MaiTre partners

MaÎtre à mentoring PROGRAMMA LEONAROD DA VINCI MaiTre outcomes for the UK

• Dissemination through the www.hementornet.org website

• Dissemination via the Mentoring & Befriending Foundation www.mandbf.org.uk

• Dissemination through the National Education Business Partnership network which coordinates business mentoring in schools and trains business mentors

• Dissemination to network of UK mentor trainers for use in their training programmes

• Use in our consultancy work with new vocational schools, in Holland

• Use for UK government agencies in developing mentoring within 14-19 diplomas – new vocational qualifications

MaÎtre à mentoring PROGRAMMA LEONAROD DA VINCI Contact details

Andrew:activelearning@blueyonder.co.ukBertie:bertie.ross@bhrconsulting.net