As a mentor at the University of Westminster, you'll join our thriving Future Ready Mentoring programmes. Established in 2010, our programmes have supported thousands of students and recent graduates and continue to grow.
We're proud to have our mentoring programmes recognised both internationally and in the UK Higher Education sector through a number of prestigious awards. Find out more about our achievements below and how you can join a community of like-minded mentors who are passionate about inspiring students and contributing to the success of Future Ready Mentoring at the University of Westminster.
2022
Shortlisted
The Future Ready Mentoring programmes were shortlisted for the prestigious 2022 Times Higher Education (THE) Awards in the ‘Outstanding Support for Students’ category. THE’s editor, John Gill, commented that the awards will ‘reflect universities doing extraordinary things in extraordinary times, when the pandemic continued to force higher education and all who work in it to respond to an unprecedented challenge.’ Our team was truly honoured to have our mentoring programmes – and the University of Westminster itself – recognised in this way.
Won
Piloting a new branch of Future Ready Mentoring activity in 2021/22, our Group Mentoring project team won the Collaborative Teaching Award as part of the Learning and Teaching Excellence Awards in the University of Westminster Centre for Education and Teaching Innovation (CETI). The CETI awards recognise and celebrate practices which have demonstrated a significant and sustained impact on student learning and the student experience. Working in collaboration with academic colleagues within the School of Computer Science and Engineering, the pilot ran as part of timetabled teaching, bringing mentors into the classroom through group mentoring sessions tailored to give computer science students a practical insight into enterprise and entrepreneurship. Read our Impact Magazine 2022 (page 5) to find out more about the group mentoring pilot.
Highlights
The academic year 2021/22 was a great year for mentoring at Westminster, one of the highlights being the launch of Future Ready Mentoring, where we now offer three distinct branches of mentoring activity to students and recent graduates: long-term mentoring, short-term mentoring, and group mentoring. We are extremely proud of our team and mentors, as together we supported more than 1,400 mentoring relationships in 2021/22 and exceeded all of our targets.
2018
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In 2018, the Future Ready Mentoring programmes won the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Gold Award celebrating outstanding work in alumni relations. Each year the CASE Circle of Excellence Awards recognise hundreds of institutions for their innovative, inspiring, and creative ideas. The CASE awards are internationally recognised, with winners including major international universities such as Harvard, Princeton and University College London.
How can you get involved?
We are always looking for new mentors who can pass on their wisdom to our students and help them to better understand the steps they need to take to achieve their career aspirations. We’re looking for volunteers who:
- Have a passion to share their advice and experience
- Have more than three years of experience in a graduate-level role, or have insight into recruitment and selection
If you'd like to apply to become a mentor and support our programmes, please complete our short application form to register.
For more information or if you have any general queries, please contact the mentoring team at [email protected].