Your Personal Tutor and Student Support Team are there to offer you academic guidance and support during your studies. University of Edinburgh Personal Tutor system Meeting your personal tutor, expectations, and Personal Tutor tools Personal Tutor responsibilities Give help and advice on your studies, any academic personal issues or queries regarding University rules and regulations. Respond within three working days. If your Personal Tutor is not available, you should contact the Senior Tutor. Give you a reference for a future employer or programme of study. Contacting your Personal Tutor while not on campus If you are not on campus (e.g. studying abroad for a period, or on placement, or studying an online degree) then your meetings may take place by telephone, live internet call, or a web conferencing application. Email exchanges are not considered to be meetings unless they take place within a pre-agreed timeframe to enable you to have a “conversation” (e.g. if you are overseas and emailing within a 24-36 hour period to take account of time differences). Changing Personal Tutors If you feel that you cannot speak to your Personal Tutor please contact your Senior Tutor unless he is your PT in which case you should contact your programme director. You may ask for a change of PT but you will not be able to request to which new PT you are assigned. You will normally stay with the same PT throughout your study here, although on occasion changes may be unavoidable due to for example a staff sabbatical. If a change of PT occurs during an academic session, an additional meeting should be scheduled with the new PT to ensure that the transition occurs smoothly. Support Contacts Within each School, there are a number of other roles working in partnership with Personal Tutors to make sure the Personal Tutor system works for you. Student Support Team Each School has a SST working with Personal Tutors to support you. In the School of Mathematics, these are the MTO and the SLA(s). Student Learning Advisor You can contact the SLA for help and advice on studying Mathematics, any academic or personal issues or queries regarding University rules and regulations. Senior Tutor The Senior Tutor who oversees the personal tutors in the School. You can contact the Senior Tutor if you have not had a satisfactory response from your Personal Tutor or the Student Learning Advisor or the Mathematics Teaching Organisation. This article was published on 2025-02-26
