(Archive) Mentors and Mentoring

@roop1234

Hi, Roop, Hope you are well!

All mentors are registered on https://www.oxfordbrookesmentoring.co.uk/. You can find them area wise also. Please send your request to mentors after which they will reply.

Regards,
Hammad Ahmed Qureshi – OBU Registered Mentor.

I don’t want to follow this thread anymore.

Thank you.

Hi Madam

I just don’t want to follow it ok?

Hi Everyone.

I have selected topic 8. I am looking good Mentor for my project.

I read BSC information pack and Harvard referencing techniques

I am confused about referencing presentation in RAP.

Suppose If I obtain information from http://www.businessdictionary.com how I will do presentation in RAP file and Referencing file.

other examples

https://www.investopedia.com/

https://www.boundless.com/management/textbooks/boundless-management-textbook/strategic-management-12/external-inputs-to-strategy-87/limitations-of-the-five-forces-view-421-881/

Please advise me.
Thank you

@wendy2015 – Please read the Open Tuition Ultimate Guide to Referencing your RAP. This (and other articles) is on our homepage http://www.opentuition.com/obu I wrote this in 3 parts and has everything you should need including ‘ Golden Rules’ which set out simple guidelines that explain the OBU requirements clearly.

If you read this you will learn that you should avoid using sites such as Investopedia and find sites that have a more ‘academic’ standing (and never use Wikipedia -the markers hate it with a passion!)

If you are in Singapore you could try our recommended mentors there – The Learning Luminarium as they have both a good track record for passing and are very experienced. Otherwise as Hammad has suggested you should register on the OBU mentoring website where all current mentors are listed.

As the P31 results are released on Wednesday students often post their results and recommendations then so you might like to wait a week before you make your choice as you will probably find such student feedback on mentors useful. (I am able via my contacts at OBU to check claims made about mentor pass rates – this is in the interest of helping ensure that students using our site can rely on the information posted. We reserve the right to ban posts and bar individuals that we believe, on the basis of evidence, make false claims or where we believe the student comment is not bona fide or justified).

@Trephena: thanks for giving us a kind mention! The results are out for the last sitting and I am sure your OBU contacts will inform you that the endorsement is not misplaced 🙂

@Unyimeedem: we appreciate the accurate statement that the Internet makes mentorship possible, anywhere u are!!
More importantly, congratulations on passing! I know you worked very hard and you deserve this achievement. Have a nice celebration!

Irwin
The Learning Luminarium

@trephena – It is regrettable that the recommendation led to such comments from @michaelg but I am glad to see our track record supports the fact that your selection was not subjective or biased!

Yes, Adrian is a brilliant OBU mentor and I peg him as one of the best in the world at this. He truly challenges the thinking of students and helps them broaden their perspective. It is not a surprise that he has a 100% pass rate for the report.

To your question – his pass rate is his own. It is not a joint effort under his name 🙂

Please feel free to check out my results for the recent sitting, my full name is Luo Weijie Irwin. If the feedback I got from my students are complete and accurate (which they should!), I attained a 100% pass rate for this sitting.

So this is a wonderful semester for The Learning Luminarium!

All said, it is important for us to realistically state that we don’t believe a 100% pass rate is sustainable and future students should not join us thinking that we guarantee a pass. No guarantee exists. The vast majority of the credit has to go to the batches of students we were so fortunate to have. Naturally, each had different academic abilities but all had the common denominator of being hardworking, humble and open to constructive criticism.

As we do not cherry-pick students, I don’t foresee the 100% pass rates staying. But I dare foresee that we will still have high pass rates that validate your recommendation!

Irwin
The Learning Luminarium

I suggest that you forward your diatribe to OBU itself.

You may be interested to know that OBU originally envisaged the mentor to be a workplace supervisor such as the boss you mention who would have carried out the task perhaps without any payment whatsoever. That situation existed as a possibility until P31 in fact the era of the paid mentor started to emerge only about 6 years ago.

To a certain extent I agree with most of your comments but what is the difference between paying any professional for their services and paying TLL (since you cite them) for their technical expertise? ? As an accountant can you honestly, hand on heart say you would be prepared to work for free? (BTW you may be surprised to learn that apart from some payment for articles, my work on this forum is largely unpaid and done as a gesture of goodwill to help those students in some parts of the world where the cost of a mentor and the submission fee represent a month’s wages -unlike you I suspect where the ratio of total RAP costs to take home pay is no doubt significantly lower? )

Personally I would prefer OBU to increase the submission fee to include mentoring and take it ‘in-house’ and use their own staff to ensure quality and integrity (as happens with on campus students). I suspect the logistics of this world be difficult in terms of availability of staff however.

Perhaps too you are overlooking one line in your argument – the business you are in yourself – some small businesses ressent having to pay expensive partner rate accountancy fees (especially when junior staff have carried out the bulk of the work) but as that is the normal practice they can’t do much about it and just have to put up and shut up!

Hi. I am urgently looking for a project mentor who lives in Nairobi, Kenya. you can contact me through lnatalia099@gmail.com.
Thank you.

I understand that an automatic email is sent to the mentor after you have uploaded which the mentor then just has to click to reply (or do something pretty basic along those lines).

If your mentor is demanding extra money for this then it is outrageous! Provided you have paid all the fees that were agreed at the outset before submission they have no grounds to do this. I suggest you expose their unscrupulous behaviour by contacting the ACCA BSc Office and send any emails from the mentor demanding more money as proof. Such underhand tactics need to be dealt with and the mentor reprimanded or even banned. Don’t worry about it affecting your submission chances – it is unlikely to have any detrimental outcome at all for you as long as you show you used a mentor listed at the time of submission and did the work yourself.

Apparently some mentors have been removed from the list already for a variety of reasons and OBU wants to promote higher ethical standards of mentors so don’t be afraid of telling them the truth.

I believe so.

The purpose of the mentor (from the OBU side) is to verify that the Presentation took place and the work is yours. I suggest you contact the OBU office as by insisting on a fee to verify your work which he didn’t see anyway 2nd time around is exploitation and more importantly malpractice on his side.

I suppose it depends on how much was wrong with your previous attempt as to whether you should have had a mentor again. If you passed the Presentation and there were only minor corrections needed you could justify that it was not obvious you needed a mentor to verify it all again as it was principally the same.

When you submit your RAP, your mentor got instant email to confirm that he was your mentor. At this stage, he can reject and accept your RAP. He has also access to read your RAP online but cant make any changes

How do i know that?

Well, my mentor told me. When i submitted my RAP, he call me to confirmed that is it really me who did that or someone is using my account. He also told me that I did not make one correction in reference which he told me :v lolz

In your case, i believe you are using the detail of your old mentor without his intention that’s why he is asking for more fee.. You need to have mentor even if you have passed the presentation. I know my friends who paid their mentors second time for new submissions where their SLS part was passed.