Ethnic Minority Achievement Service

Mentoring

The term ‘mentor’ has its origins in Greek literature. When Odysseus sailed to join the war against the Trojans, he chose a friend, Mentor, to act as a guide and advisor to his son Telemachus whilst he was away. In this sense, then, mentors will sometimes act like supervisors.

There are now ‘learning mentors’ employed in most of our primary and secondary school under the Excellence in Cities service, but there are also volunteer mentors working with Islington’s students. Cassius Francis previously worked for EMAS as Senior Learning Mentor and now works for EMAS on a consultancy basis. He works in both primary and secondary schools usually on a termly basis. Cassius can be contacted at

ACEC Ltd, PO Box 13208 , Birmingham   B13 3DQ 0121 444 6688 www.acec.org.uk

We have recently worked with Mentoring Solutions and have been impressed by the quality of their work they can be contacted here.

Read a brief report on their work here.

Downloads and Links

Gifted & Talented Mentoring Scheme. January - December 2007

School based Mentoring schemes working in Islington