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Black Minority Ethnic (BME) Mentoring
A BME Mentor is a postgraduate or undergraduate student from one of the Leeds Universities. They support and help motivate a less experienced BME school/college student reach his/her true potential. In this project an older more experienced person who has progressed to HE and achieved success acts as a positive role model.
- Leeds Mentoring to pay the BME mentor £50 per day (26 days per year)
- School/college responsible for their travelling expenses
- Mentor to support a cohort of 10/12 BME students
- Mentor in the school/college for the equivalent of one day per week
- See their mentee for at least one hour every 2 weeks
- Receive training, induction, guidance and support
Aims
- To target BME 14 – 19 year old school/college students from African Caribbean, Black Other, Pakistani and Bangladeshi backgrounds and provide face to face mentor support
- To raise their achievement in Maths and Sciences
- To raise the number of students achieving at least 5 Grade A* - C GCSE’s
- To increase the number of students progressing to:
a) Post 16 Education
b) University
2003/4 Evaluation feedback BME Students
“83% of Year 11 mentored BME students met or overachieved their Fischer Family Trust GCSE points target.”
The BME mentoring project works closely with educational establishments (schools, FE colleges & Higher Education Institutions (HEI’s) to deal with educational disadvantage and disaffection among young people from some of the most socially and economically deprived communities in Leeds. BME positive role model mentors from local Higher Education Institutions will be recruited to offer general and subject specific support and as well as guidance, motivation, confidence building and help with personal issues and problems.
This project is unique because it provides an opportunities for BME students in schools to access additional support from BME role models/peers who have achieved.
Click here to see a BME mentoring case study