A (re)vision of the university tutoring: the perception of students and tutors of studies of Degree.

Abstract

In a review of the university tutoring, we find it reappears in Higher Education, with the new European guidelines, as an element of quality and innovation that facilitates the process of accompaniment required to contribute to the integral formation of students, favoring the new educational approach centered on the students and their learning. This paper focuses on the perceptions, beliefs and relationships that students and tutors of different Degree studies belong to a University Tutoring Special Plan have on it in the first year of admission. The analysis and discussion of basic aspects of tutoring allows its protagonists, students and tutors, raise a feedback and suggestions for optimal development. This paper concludes with the need to consider tutoring as a process characterized as systematic, planned, integrated, intentional, ongoing, dynamic and, above all, recognized, responding to a right of the EHEA and a quality factor of the same. Given this fact, tutoring can´t be left in the hands of willful people, but it should be seen as an institutional matter. This requires the creation of an organizational structure to ensure its performance and the appropriate response to specific demands. Therefore, it is to provide content tutoring, to give it meaning, coherence and continuity.

Keywords

• tutoría
• calidad de la educación
• innovación
• universidad