Your personal tutor what you can expect 2014

1. Your Personal Tutor
What You Can Expect

2. Your Personal Tutor:
What do they do?
• Personal tutors are specialist teaching staff with time
allocated each week for Personal Tutoring activity
• These activities include:
– Initial settling in meeting in teaching week 1 or 2
– Office time available each week to meet if you are
experiencing difficulties
– Assisting you in drawing up an action plan when needed
– Assisting with Extenuating Circumstances applications
– Marking your Professional Media Practice submissions
– Meeting with you to discuss your professional development
• Allocated personal tutors close to your specialism

3. What you can expect
from your personal tutor
• A bit of time and a sympathetic ear
• Some help with planning to get back on track
• To be referred on to the right place to get the
help you need
• Tissues as necessary!

4. Forget it:
What you are not going to get
• Attention on demand – time mutually agreed
• Us to do your work
We don’t do customer service,
we do self help with assistance

5. Attendance Monitoring
- Attendance is monitored in all taught sessions
- Consecutive absence is highlighted
- Asked to contact Student Success Advisor
- Personal Tutors informed
- Attendance is linked to success on course

6. Assessment Regulations I
If you fail a module:
• You have one attempt to resubmit and pass (Summer)
• Failure to pass on the second attempt will result in
withdrawal from the course
To maximise your chances of success,
make sure you attend!

7. Assessment Regulations II
If the module is:
• An optional one, you may take a substitute module, the
following year, but you can only substitute a module once
• A compulsory one, you must pass at the first re-sit attempt
or you will be asked to leave the course
• Compulsory modules include Professional Media Practice
and Studying the Media and Communication
Repeat: To maximise your chances of success,
make sure you attend!

8. If you are experiencing difficulties…
Don’t suffer alone
Come and tell us about it
We will get you some help
You will feel a whole lot better if you share!