Support Spotlight: How your Personal Tutor can help you

18 November 2025

Hello there!

It’s Georgia and Luke from the WBS Undergraduate Student Experience and Engagement Team.

A large remit of our team is to oversee personal tutoring, so in this article, you’ll read all about the role and why it’s important that you engage with your tutor from day 1!


What is a Personal Tutor?

As an undergraduate student, you are allocated an academic member of staff who acts as your ‘Personal Tutor’ for your entire time at WBS. You’ll meet with them regularly to establish a professional relationship. They are one of your main points of contact throughout your degree and are in place for a number of reasons, including to give you guidance on the assessment and feedback you receive, help with module choices, as well as be a source of support should you face any academic or personal difficulties during your degree. They may not always know the direct answer, but they will always support you in finding out who you need to speak with.

By the end of your degree, your Personal Tutor should know you really well, and you’ll likely ask them to complete a ‘reference’ for your first job or further academic study. So don’t forget, if they don’t know you, that letter will be very short!


How can I make the most of the Personal Tutor relationship?

To make sure you establish a good relationship with your tutor, you should arrange to meet with them at least once a term. The relationship is a two-way street, meaning you must be proactive in reaching out and meeting your tutor to get the most out of it. You might make a lifelong supporter out of it!

You can find out who your Personal Tutor is by logging in to my.wbs and looking under ‘Personal Tutor’. You can use this system to request a meeting. Here you’ll also see a full history of your meetings, as well as a record of what was discussed.


What should I talk about with my Personal Tutor?

As mentioned above your Personal Tutor is your first port of call to discuss a wide range of areas. Some of these topics include, but are not limited to;

It’s a good idea to have a think about what you may want to discuss in advance of your meeting, and you can use our suggested tutee checklists at the bottom of this page: Personal Tutoring.

Personal Tutors don’t generally offer careers advice, instead, you should speak with our dedicated CareersPlus Team, who can support you at any time throughout your degree. 
 

WBS’s Excellent Personal Tutors 

Here at WBS, we’re proud of our Personal Tutors! One of our Personal Tutors, Jodie Lucas, has recently been awarded a Warwick Award for Personal Tutoring Excellence (WAPTE). This award recognises personal tutors who have made a significant difference to students' lives, both by enhancing the student learning experience and by championing personal tutoring. 

You can read more about Jodie’s response to her award here: 2025 WAPTE Winners.

Nominations for 2025-25 WAPTE will open in term 2 – keep an eye out on this webpage if you have an excellent tutor in mind you’d like to put forward: WAPTE: How to Nominate.

We hope you’ve found this article informative and that you now understand the importance of your Personal Tutor! If you have any feedback or questions about Undergraduate Personal Tutoring at WBS then please don’t hesitate to contact the Student Experience and Engagement Team at wbsugstuexperience@wbs.ac.uk 
 

Wishing you a fantastic academic year!

Georgia & Luke