Building community in academic settings: The importance of flexibility in a structured mentoring program

Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 294-310

  Ewing, Robyn ^a   Freeman, Mark ^a   Barrie, Simon ^a   Bell, Amani ^a   O’Connor, Donna ^a   Waugh, Fran ^a   Sykes, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic development; Career advancement; Flexible mentoring; Pairing process

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952816463     PISSN: 13611267     EISSN: 14699745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13611260802231690     Document Type: Article

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