UCL Academy mentorship programme gets underway

The first ever mentorship scheme between UCL and the UCL Academy began on 23 January as undergraduate and postgraduate students met their sixth-form mentees. The scheme pairs Academy students with UCL students with similar academic interests for guidance about the social and academic aspects of university life. The mentorship programme consists of an online messaging and resource-sharing session every week as well as a monthly face-to-face meeting. The online side is enabled by an educational charity, the Brightside Trust, which has been working with schools for ten years. However, this is the first time they have organised a mentoring scheme between one school and one university. How the day unfolded. At the Academy's purpose-built facilities in Swiss Cottage, UCL mentors were first introduced to the assistant principal of sixth form, Alice Lucas, before becoming acquainted with the two or three students whom they would assist over the academic year.