University of Kent

Pastoral Care

The Personal Academic Support System

Pastoral Care Staff:

Senior Tutor: David Blair

Deputy Senior Tutors: Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid and Patricia Debney

Equal Opportunities Officer: Dr Alex Padamsee

As of September 2001, a Personal Academic Support System (PASS) replaces the system of Personal Tutors. Its aim is to ensure that you know whom you should go to with any query or anxiety you may have about your academic work or your progress, and that these lines of approach should be as quick, open and effective as possible.

There are four 'Schools' of undergraduate study in the Faculty of Humanities plus the Centre for American Studies. It is important that you are clear about which School (or Centre) you belong to, as the main provisions which PASS puts in place are on a School-by-School Basis. Students registered as reading English and American Literature, or as reading English jointly with Classics, Computing, Film Studies or Sociology are 'housed' with the School of English. If you are reading English in combination with any other Humanities subject you officially belong to the School to which the other subject belongs: this doesn't mean that English will offer you no academic support in your work on English modules, but in cases of serious academic or personal difficulties you will need to go to the other School, where your academic record is held.

The academic in the School of English principally responsible for helping Part I and Part II students with their academic progress is the Senior Tutor, currently David Blair [email darb; phone 7481 (internal) 01227 827481 (from off-campus)]. If any issue is troubling you which is not mentioned in the checklist that follows, ask his advice about it. If any of the following issues are of concern, go in the first instance to the person indicated (if it is not the Senior Tutor) and to the Senior Tutor if you feel you need further advice.