Making the invisible visible: Value and reward for personal tutors

Eve Rapley, Michael Talbot

Abstract


Academic advising is a core part of the teaching and learning experience in higher education, but it receives little recognition in workload allocations or institutional prestige. We argue that it is high time that personal tutoring and academic advising be valued and esteemed as much as other core parts of the modern academy.


Keywords


Personal tutoring; CPD; invisible work; academic advising

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21100/compass.v15i1.1303

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