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Mentoring is one key element that has the potential to add impetus to the rise of the university. These programmes have been designed to be part and parcel of the gender activities.
Research shows that providing for youth with consistent adult support through well - supervised, frequent meeting, long-term mentoring relationship improves grades and family relationship and helps prevent iniation into drug and alcohol use. Academic grades, career development, family and para-family relationships are a critical area with students beginning to experience a new sense of freedom away from "hawk-eyed" parents and close to diverse people in the university community.
Mentoring is a useful tool for faculty growth where senior and experienced academic staff are engaged in mentoring the junior and incoming faculty members. This gives impetus to academic and professional progression and thus continuity in the university's stamina in study, research and innovation, and community service.
University and school's dropout rates are a function of failed morale, social and psychological problems and unexpected outcomes in academic performance in studies among others. While some of the issues can be solved through counseling and career redirection, mentoring plays a crucial role and averts their opportunity to strike.
Mentoring offers support and guidance, helps the protégés in developing career plans, balancing between achieving career commitments against unplanned schedules and activities, gaining confidence in the working environment, obtaining valubles feedback as well as receiving the much needed criticism in the career path.