Core provisions: student entitlement

Through PARs, departments should, as a minimum, guarantee for each student an effective system within which personal tutor and student can agree records for use both by the department and by the student, and which the student can expand as a record of achievement. The system should cover:

• wherever possible, allocation to a personal tutor who also teaches the student for part of the course, ideally at least at the beginning of the tutor-tutee relationship
  
• a sequence of scheduled meetings with the personal tutor, included in a published calendar of events which allocates specified dates or time windows for the meetings. (Meetings to address urgent matters as they arise are additional to these)
  
• use of published default agendas agreed between staff and students at the appropriate level (e.g. school/department) for each scheduled meeting, relating directly to the point reached in the course, with provision for tutee or tutor to add agenda items on an individual basis
  
• regular constructive feedback on academic performance
  
• one-to-one staff-student discussion of the student's progress across all the modules each semester
  
• support and guidance on module choice, skills development and graduate opportunities
• encouragement to record and reflect upon knowledge, skills and learning experiences gained both inside and outside the academic curriculum
  
• information about sources of support in the university for personal difficulties.