The university has invested in MentorNet software to help with the organisation and administration of mentoring schemes and reduce the time and costs. The software has been used by mentoring scheme organisers/managers at Brookes for a number of years, including for mentoring the Bacchus Mentoring Programme and for Accountants in Mentoring (AIM) scheme. Jane King, Senior Lecturer Accounting and Finance at Oxford Brookes and organiser of AIM says,
We used to have a paper-based system, with lots of paper, emails and LinkedIn groups, but they were all separate. Now we have MentorNet, everything is in one place and it is so much easier.
The software can support:
- mentors (and mentees) having profiles which can help in ‘matching’ if choice of mentor or mentee is part of the mentoring scheme;
- as a communication platform, either initially before face to face meetings or for e-mentoring schemes where the mentors and mentees do not meet;
- organisers can track, report and record meetings between mentors and mentees and send out communications to keep things moving;
- enabling students and mentors to share documents securely;
- allows organisers to run beginning and end of mentoring surveys and evaluations .
If you would like to have access to this resource, please contact Clare Martin