Personal Tutoring: Building an Inclusive Future

Led by Dr David Grey (UKAT) and Dr Josie Gabi (Manchester Metropolitan University), this session frames personal tutoring as a structured and purposeful process which helps students learn about how they learn, and about their individual values and aspirations, supporting them to enhance their academic and career outcomes.

We explore student expectations and experiences of personal tutoring and consider approaches to link and embed personal tutoring in the academic curriculum. We offer an example of how a structured, curriculum embedded approach to personal tutoring has been developed at Manchester Metropolitan University and, through discussion of detailed case studies, demonstrate how this has helped address attainment gaps for BAME students.

Participants are encouraged to identify personal actions they can take in the short, medium, and longer term to make their own personal tutoring practice more inclusive. The session concludes with an overview of the resources that UKAT offers to support personal tutors in enhancing their practice.

As a result of engaging in this session, participants will:

• Understand the importance of purposeful, structured approaches to personal tutoring
• Identify potential student outcomes for personal tutoring relevant to their context
• Appreciate how structured approaches to personal tutoring can improve student outcomes for all students, but particularly marginalised groups

BOOKING:

This session will take place on MS TEAMS, from 13.00–15.00 on Thursday 24 February.

To book a place on this event, please complete a copy of our CPD booking form. 

Dr Josie Gabi, Manchester Metropolitan University

Josie Gabi is a Senior Lecturer in Early Years and Childhood Studies and a Personal Tutor coordinator for the School of Childhood Youth and Education Studies at the Manchester Metropolitan University. Josie is also a member of UKAT and NACADA (Social Justice Community).

Dr David Grey, UKAT

David Grey is the Chief Executive of UK Advising and Tutoring (UKAT), a UK higher education membership association focused on ensuring that every HE student experiences effective academic advising which personalises their learning and enables them to flourish.

David has over 25 years’ experience as an academic, academic advisor and educational developer, with a leadership focus on learning and teaching, the student experience and academic advising. He is an HE consultant for UKAT and has led institution-wide projects to revise and enhance academic advising provision and publishes regularly in the field.

David also works closely with NACADA, The Global Community for Academic Advising, and is a member of the NACADA Research Committee and Publications Advisory Board. He is currently editing a forthcoming NACADA book on International Perspectives on Academic Advising: Scholarship, Praxis, and Supporting Student Learning.