Australia’s Mentoring Initiatives

Enhance Your Ability to Learn, Receive a Warm Welcome, And Adjust Quickly.

We recognise that, as an international student, feeling overwhelmed after being admitted to your dream foreign university is normal. It’s an important turning point because it signals the start of your adventure in a completely new region of the world.

Australian universities have created a mentorship programme to help you as an overseas student adjust to “uni life” and giving you the support you may require. This contains information about a mentor who can help you. Through peer interactions, this programme will provide you with social and academic assistance. Your mentor will be in charge of setting you up with the peer support network in a secure and encouraging setting.

These mentors, who are they?

A mixture of domestic and foreign university students serve as mentors, providing help to newcomers from the moment they land in the nation. They support you throughout orientation and are there for you at any time during the semester if you need them.

Benefits of Mentoring programs

Help build network with the university peer groups

Feel safe and protected while seeking help

Enhance confidence and communication skills

Get a chance to participate in extra-curricular activities which can be reflected on CV and LinkedIn

Get accustomed to Australian culture, cuisine, and other things

Information on relevant workshops and seminars will be readily available

Understand different ways of learning and working while performing a group task

Let’s examine what a mentor does

Each mentor is given the responsibility to handle a group of first-year students from within their department for nearly the first five weeks of the semester. During this time, they organise weekly meetings in small groups which include activities and relevant topics of discussion like academic requirements, on-campus support services and many more such things.

Note: You can get support from mentors via phone, email, and text as well.

Role of a mentor

Provide access to the existing student network on campus

Create awareness about student support services offered by the university

Make you understand the lingo and academic standards

Basic understanding about transition issues that you might face in the first year

Design a framework for a productive interaction between new students, staff, and mentors

Enables new students to deal with the challenges and take up opportunities offered by the university

How to get connected with your mentor?

The IELTS exam is conducted in two formats. You can either take the test in a paper-based format at the nearest IELTS center. Writing, listening, and reading sections can be taken on paper with a pen or HB pencil. Alternatively, you can opt for a computer-based IELTS exam. Writing, reading, and listening sections can be taken on the computer in this option.

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