Appendix 1: Overview of academic skills provision across the colleges

Type of provision

Description of provision

Typical roles associated with provision

Mentoring Programmes

Often delivered by graduate research students offering academic skills mentoring to undergraduates.

Either drawing ad hoc on a pool of mentors when needed or as part of a more formalised team service.

Academic Skills Mentor/Adviser

Graduate Mentor/Adviser

Graduate Study Adviser

Academic Skills Tutoring

Early Career fixed-term and part-time roles. Contracts may be informal, stipendiary or non-stipendiary, and of varying degrees of full-time equivalent (FTE).

Variations include informal agreements with tutors who have more longstanding experience in tutoring academic skills who may be brought in when needed from their subject teaching or from other colleges.

Academic Skills Tutor

Academic Skills Lecturer

Dedicated Academic Skills Staff (beyond Subject Tutor provision in college)

Roles are often more established and substantial on permanent or longer-term contracts, often solely responsible for academic skills delivery within a college.

May be full-time or more substantial FTE and may take on other related duties and initiatives associated with student welfare and/or personal development.

Academic Skills Fellow

Academic Skills Officer

Academic Skills Tutor

Academic Skills Coordinator

Academic Skills Lead

Other provision

Sourced from outside the college and/or University.

Royal Literary Fellow

Contracted provision from university services such as the Language Centre

Contracted Academic Skills Tutor(s) from other Oxford colleges

 

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