How the role of the personal tutor can make an impact on

student success

Created by Anamaria Busic

Student success

• Success rates - necessity

• Individual student’s success – passion • Successfully gaining the qualification• Successfully progressing in education/ employment• “value added” and “distance traveled”• Students achieving their own targets

Making impact on individual student’s success through:

• Monitoring attendance and punctuality

• Monitoring submission of work

• Study skills• Liaising with parents• Career guidance:– Employment– UCAS

• Motivation & encouragement

• Raising self-esteem, confidence, aspirations

• Target setting• Social skills• Behaviour management• Safeguarding• Other pastoral support

Making impact on success rates:

• Students are more engaged therefore more motivated to stay and achieve their maximum on the course

• Providing intensive support to students at risk may make a big difference

In conclusion

• Supporting students to achieve and succeed on the course through tutorial will increase the course success rates as well as it will add value to the course

• The direct impact of tutorial may be difficult to measure…

Anamaria Busic