Guidance to support the new Academic Personal Tutoring (APT) framework is now available on the Staff Hub. Please familiarise yourself with this, particularly if you are an Academic Personal Tutor (formerly Academic Advisor), but it will be relevant for any staff supporting students. 

The Framework aims to provide greater consistency as a baseline for students, whilst enabling Faculties to implement it with appropriate flexibility within the Framework's requirements. Academic Personal Tutoring is a key way of enhancing student experience and outcomes, and helping students to get the most from their course. 

The new Guidance pages aim to support Faculties and staff in these roles, and provide a central resource that hasn't been available in this way before. It has been produced by staff at Sussex with particular expertise in tutoring (advising) students, and will be developed and updated over the first year of the new APT framework. It includes: 

• new Principles and Aims for Academic Personal Tutoring, helping to set expectations 

• guidance on engaging with tutees, with some essential engagement points (e.g. following A1 assessment feedback release), and accessing tutee information

• recommended topics to cover with tutees in each semester

• links to relevant training for Academic Personal Tutors and links to resources that students can be signposted to

• a quick-view list of what APTs 'should' and 'shouldn't' do

Students will soon receive communication about this, and nomenclature will change on Sussex Direct in late September. 

For more information, please contact your Associate Dean for Education and Students.