UKAT’s free monthly webinars, Tutoring Matters, are designed to support all those engaged with personal tutoring and advising, whether that be as a practitioner, leader or in a related support role. They will also act as key professional development for those undertaking tutoring and advising roles. Facilitated by various key professionals associated with UKAT and collaborative in nature, the webinars will cover important issues for academic advising. 

If you would like to facilitate a webinar, please get in touch. We are also open to suggestions from members about topics they would like to see covered. To make a suggestion, or for any other queries regarding the webinars, please email webinar@ukat.uk. 

You can book onto the webinars and find out further information by clicking on the webinar titles below (booking will go live approximately one month before the webinar is due to take place).

Aiding Transition and Retention: Embedding personal tutoring in a first year core module -  Thursday 19 June 2025, 14:00

Nicola Bishop, De Montfort University

This session presents a case study from the English Department at Manchester Metropolitan University where a first year core module was redesigned around the principle of students being taught by their personal tutors. It focuses on the way that the new module supported transition and retention, helped students develop key degree skills, and encouraged greater engagement and community building.

The module content focused on Manchester as a city, facilitating students’ extra-curricular experiences and confidence building as they settled into university life and introduced project-based learning to develop independence and foster an active and inclusive classroom. Project supervision allowed a space for scaffolded conversations about students’ academic progress as well as opening a pathway to signpost into other student services.

The module data-mapping demonstrated a positive impact for engagement and the closing of continuation gaps.

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