RAPPORT
Issue 5 (August 2020)
putting learning resources online, I hope
also into devising appropriate student
learning activities. Fortunately we also
have access to a wider range of channels
for individual and small group
communication – Skype, Zoom, Teams,
Meet, and no doubt many others. We
have the technology to continue to tutor. I
hope we also have the will.
I hope we shall continue to recognise the
crucial importance of one-to-one contact,
to support students as they bravely jump
into the unfamiliar and, let’s face it,
sometimes very strange, world of Higher
Education, which has recently become
even stranger. On the evidence of this
course and of this journal, the necessary
capability, and the sophisticated
understanding of tutoring, are out there.
What I’m less sure about is whether the
capacity is there; whether sufficient
people will be supported and encouraged
by their institutions to give sufficient
attention to tutoring. I very much hope
that they will. One possible excuse – ‘We
don’t know how to do it’ – has, with this
course and this journal, fallen.
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