What are the benefits of becoming a Peer Active Learning Scheme mentor?

If you are a final year undergraduate, Masters or postgraduate student, becoming a Peer Active Learning Scheme (PALS) mentor is a great way to help others to develop their learning strategies, and is a great opportunity to develop your own skills and abilities, for example, in mentoring others, communication and organisational skills. These are all skills and capabilities that employers value and can be included on your CV. Additionally, many of our PALS mentors have fed back on how personally rewarding it is to have helped fellow students.

PALS pairs up foundation, first and second year undergraduate students, with a trained final year undergraduate or postgraduate PALS mentor to help mentees develop their academic skills and apply these approaches to their studies.

Signing up to become a PALS mentor can be used as significant evidence in the University's Professional Skills Award scheme.

PALS Mentors are paid a maximum of five hours for each mentee and the University will also provide online training and ongoing support in the role.

You can find out more and read about the experiences of other students who have become PALS mentors on our PALS Mentor page.