Among the factors included in the Advanced Certificate in Education-School Management and Leadership (ACE-SML) qualification in South Africa, is the requirement for leaders to be mentored. Mentoring is perceived to be among the most necessary processes in ensuring that practising principals will in turn be able to become resourceful mentors to their teachers. This article explicates the results...

In Sweden, with no tradition of mentors participating in formal summative assessment of newly qualified teachers, a Government Inquiry proposes this dual role for mentors. This paper examines how the mentor’s and headmaster’s role in the assessment and the relations between mentor and mentee are discussed in the 108 responses sent to the Swedish Ministry of Education, as response to this Govern...

Mentoring and coaching are all part of educational training to develop people in the professions. There are several similarities and differences in the main issues involved in mentoring and coaching. They are related to the selfdevelopment, professional growth and career development of the mentee/coachee. In establishing the approaches to be used, care must be taken to ensure that each person u...

Objectives: To explore the perceptions of mentees of the role mentoring plays in developing a medical career and seeming advantages and disadvantages. Methods: In this qualitative study, 21 mentored and nonmentored doctors in postgraduate specialty years one to eight were recruited from the Mersey deanery in England. Semi-structured interviews were used to assess perceptions of the mentored pos...