1. Academic Advisors
Every student will be allocated a member of the lecturing team who will support and advise them individually throughout their course

2. The GCU PPACT Standard

3. What is the PPACT Standard?
Personal
Professional
Academically informed
Consolidated
Transitional
It is intended to help you develop personal, academic and professional skills

4. Elements of Academic Support
Academic support provided mainly by Academic Advisors (AA)
Other designated staff may be involved:-
Module leaders/ facilitators
Disability co-ordinator
Academic Development tutors
Careers staff

5. The Role of the Academic Advisor

6. AA meetings AA meetings help you to develop skills:
To improve your academic performance
To raise awareness of areas for professional and personal growth and development
To help navigate through assessment feedback
and support claims for mitigating circumstances
To help produce academic development plans to help improve your record of academic attainment and contributes to your
Scottish Ongoing Achievement Record (SOAR)

7. Processes for Academic Advising
You will be allocated a named AA who will be an academic member of staff
You should meet within the first few weeks to agree communication channels
Thereafter should meet 2 times per year
To discuss academic studies
Review activities that enhance your profile
Reflect on anything that may impact on your overall performance

8. Record and Action Plan Student-owned Linked to the PPACT Standard
Used to record AA meetings over the course of a year in collaboration with AA
(Example on next slide)

9. Record of meetings Criteria Meeting 1 Date: Meeting 2 Meeting 3
Personal
(reflection, review of relevant personal development)
Professional
(career planning and employability, leadership, achievement)
Academically informed
(feedback/ forward; review and discussion of academic results)
Consolidated
(evaluation of learning in all areas identified above)

10. End of year progress report
Transitional Action Plan created at the end of the year which feeds forward to:
Highlight key achievements/ academic issues
Identify areas for personal development
Summary of the year and issues to be carried forward
The transitional action plan is re-presented at the beginning of the new academic year

11. Link to GCU PPACT Standard Web Pages