Mentoring Resources

For more support with session ideas and activities we have developed a Mentor Resource Bank, a suite of year specific resources for you to view and download.

These resources range from pre-prepared group and one-one activities to suggested websites relevant for young people aged 13-17, that you could potentially use with your mentees.

However, you can be flexible and use your own initiative when it comes to sessions – there is no right or wrong way to run a session, providing you stay reasonably focused and don’t lose sight of the intended purpose. Click on the links below to look at the different kinds of activities:

Suggested topics to discuss with your mentees

What is Higher Education?

- Choice of 43,000 university courses
- 300 HE Institutions
- Earn more money as a graduate – average starting salary £25,000
- Student finance – fees, loans & student budgeting -www.gov.uk/studentfinancesteps
- Course options – leading to careers/jobs
- Student social life
- Clubs, societies, volunteering & Job shop
- University Life – lectures, seminars, tutorials, modules, independent study
- Student accommodation – Halls, student village, student house, cost per week
- Explain what a sandwich year, industry year at university is
- Different types of university – campus, collegiate, city, rural, stay at home or move away
- University Terminology explained – Fresher’s, Alumni, Graduate, Degree, Dissertation
- https://unistats.ac.uk/ - compare courses at different unis
- Explaining UCAS & the UCAS traiff – www.ucas.com/
- How to write a personal statement www.studential.com/ - look at sample personal statements
- Uni Prospectus, Open Days
- www.push.co.uk/ - independent guide to UK Unis
- www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/
- www.nus.org.uk/
- www.ukcoursefinder.com/
- www.advancingaccess.ac.uk/cpd-resources