About PAL
PAL aims to ease the transition into Higher Education and to provide support for new students on more challenging course modules.
What is PAL?
Peer Assisted Learning is an academic support scheme where second year students, PAL Leaders, are trained to run weekly study sessions to support the needs of first year students. Leaders pass on their experience and knowledge of the course they have studied to new students starting that course.
Features of PAL
- PAL encourages 'active' learning where students can explore answers through discussion.
- PAL Leaders facilitate group discussion and use various educational materials to enhance learning.
- Sessions are informal and friendly, and provide a safe environment for students to talk about areas of uncertainty.
- PAL sessions offer supplimentary learning support to core lectures and seminars.
- Sessions are completely confidential.
- You can decide what is discussed in PAL sessions.
The more everyone joins in, the better the sessions work!
Page last updated 3 February 2012