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Mentoring is becoming recognised as a key strategy in supporting young people, and can bring benefits to schools and mentors, as well as to the mentees themselves. Teachers have commented on how young people involved in such programmes ‘feel that they have grown’ and are ‘more likely to contribute to discussion’. However, setting up and running mentoring programmes is no easy task for schools, the recruitment and training of mentors, the impact on the curriculum and the appropriate matching of pairs being just a few of the challenges involved. Valuable insights into the how and what of mentoring are presented in this article, drawing on an evaluation of 60 programmes run between 1998 and 2000, funded by the DfEE (now DfES) and the National Mentoring Network. Schools at all phases can gain from this research, based on the experiences of young people from seven to 19. |
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| pre conference resources |
 Video clips and presentation slides from our previous pre conferences, are now available online.
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CERUKplus is the only free database of current education and children’s service research projects in the UK. CERUKplus would like to include practitioner research undertaken as part of masters degree courses or levels 3 + 4 of the Teacher Learning Academy in 2010, and would like to hear from practitioners interested in doing so. We are committed to supporting teachers and lecturers in their research work and building connections between communities of practice. |
| research engaged schools |
 The contribution of research to school improvement has been a matter of considerable debate. It is widely argued that educational practice should be more evidence based, but it is acknowledged that this is not easy to achieve. |
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