About the system
Mentoring is traditionally undertaken face-to-face between the mentor and their students. Although there are considerable advantages to this approach, there are also certain drawbacks. For example, mentors are not always available, the question the student has may just require a quick reply and the student or Mentor may live or work some distance from the school or another appropriate meeting place.
The e-mentoring system should not be seen as a replacement for traditional mentoring, rather to compliment and extend it. It benefits from improving the flexibility of the mentoring scheme and further developing the student’s computer skills. e-mentoring shares many of the same characteristics as conventional face-to-face mentoring. However, although there are similarities, there are also important differences, not least – in the structures that need to be put in place if e-mentoring is to operate safely and securely.
News
- Mentoring scheme beats bullies - BBC News
- How mentoring made a difference - BBC News
- Youngsters honoured for outstanding contribution - The Star
- Mentors giving pupils helping hand for GCSEs - Bolton News
- Beating bullies with pupil power - This Is Lancashire
- Ups and downs of mentoring - Financial Times
- Overgrown Loughborough - Loughborough News
- Peer mentoring scheme to help tackle bullying issues - icBerkshire
- Mentoring 'has benefits for all' - ATL Education News
- Older generation deterred from volunteering with 'troublesome' youth - Guardian Unlimited
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Other products
Truancy Call
- Allows automatic contacting of parents of pupils absent from school, by
phone, text message and email. Parents can respond using the same methods.
Text Someone
- offers pupils the chance to text, email or call 24/7 to report incidents of
bullying, crime, theft or any unwanted behaviour.
Term Time Tracker
- allows Local Authorities to track and communicate by
text to parents and pupils who are on extended leave from school
Call Parents
- General messaging system to allow a school to send any message
to any group of parents via automated phone calls, text message and emails to
parents
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