4.4 Peer Mentor Scheme
Peer support schemes are great opportunities to develop your support network when you start at University. By being matched with a student mentor, you can make friends and get support from someone who can give you real insights into student life at Exeter!
We offer two types of Peer Support schemes:
Looking for guidance on how to settle into your course or university life? You can sign up to a mentoring or ‘buddy’ scheme, to be matched with a student from your discipline or subject area. Alternatively, you can sign up to a scheme to request a mentor who shares other experiences in common with you besides your area of study. We have mentoring schemes for care leavers, disabled students, mature students, and international students.
Looking for curricula-based support? You can sign up to a peer learning or ‘PAL’ scheme, to be matched in a group with other students on your course. Your group will be assigned a mentor who will plan activities and facilitate discussion to enhance understanding of academic topics within a module or discipline.
Your Department will let you know early in the term of any peer mentoring schemes available, but you can also see a full list of programmes on the Peer Support website. Where possible, schemes will indicate which campuses they are based on and whether they are open to undergraduate or postgraduate taught students. However, you can always reach out to scheme Programme Organisers if you are unsure.
Many of our mentees from previous years are now mentors and are very enthusiastic about how much the scheme helped them when they first arrived.
“Having been fortunate enough to have had a fantastic Buddy-Up mentor this past academic year, I have just signed up to become one myself for the coming academic year!” (BSc Economics and Politics student)