How confident do you feel in your personal tutoring role? In the face of ever-increasing and demanding learner issues, do you feel equipped to provide the essential support to meet their needs? This timely book provides you with essential help in an area which has often been given little attention in comparison with curriculum delivery by:contextualising the support side of a teacher’s role within further education;looking beyond conventional notions of personal tut...

This is a comprehensive guide for higher education professionals engaged in student support, advising or personal tutoring roles. It covers a range of key topics relating to tutoring in the HE landscape including definitions, pedagogy, coaching, core values and skills, boundaries, monitoring students, undertaking group and individual tutorials and the need to measure impact.A scholarly and practical text, it brings together relevant academic literature to inform personal tutoring p...

Meg's expecting twins---any minute!---in this next hilarious entry in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling series!Meg is eight and a half months pregnant with twins when Michael asks if she wouldn't mind another houseguest. One of his doctoral students is directing his new translation of a play by a minor Spanish playwright, and the playwright has agreed to come to town for the production.Senor Mendoza turns out to be a drinker, a smoker, and an inveterate...

Friendship is everything, even if you’re a bit of a wild one like Walter the Warthog. Join him as he meets new buddies, overcomes challenges, surfs his heart out and has a lekker braai or two. Veld Friends is a series for kids of all ages set around the Waterhole and starring a loveable cast of uniquely South African animals, including Sindele the Stork, Mandla the Hippo and Beukus the Baboon. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll want to hold your nose for a while when Walter farts. Is there a...

Friendship is everything, even if you’re a bit of a wild one like Walter the Warthog. Join him as he meets new buddies, overcomes challenges, surfs his heart out and has a lekker braai or two. Veld Friends is a series for kids of all ages set around the Waterhole and starring a loveable cast of uniquely South African animals, including Sindele the Stork, Mandla the Hippo and Beukus the Baboon. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll want to hold your nose for a while when Walter farts. Is there a...

For fans of Jon Klassen and Jory John comes this adorably mischievous picture book about naughty babies!Otis was a very loud baby. He would scream and shout and bang things together.One day, when his mummy and daddy couldn't take it any longer, they said, 'That's it! We're sending him back to the storks!'When word spreads across town that parents can send their naughty babies back to the storks, the storks' village is suddenly inundated. But...

Meg Langslow is pregnant with twins when Michael asks if she wouldn't mind having a houseguest. One of his doctoral students is directing his new translation of a play by a minor Spanish playwright, who has agreed to come to town for the production. Surely they can spare some room for such an important academic cause? Senor Mendoza turns out to be a partygoer who loves to spend raucous evenings among adoring students...at Casa Langslow. Into this chaos arrives the dean of the English depar...

Caliph Chasid, of Bagdad, was resting comfortably on his divan one fine afternoon. He was smoking a long pipe, and from time to time he sipped a little coffee which a slave handed to him, and after each sip he stroked his long beard with an air of enjoyment. In short, anyone could see that the Caliph was in an excellent humour. This was, in fact, the best time of day in which to approach him, for just now he was pretty sure to be both affable and in good spirits, and for this ...

Professional learning and development for higher education personal tutors and academic advisors.With contributions from 50 practitioners from across the sector, this text examines the key themes, theories and concepts relevant to personal tutors and academic advisors and translates these into real-world practice. Case study narratives from a range of settings demonstrate how student learning and outcomes can be improved, and related critical thinking activities en...