New Challenges for Higher Education Quality Assurance: The Peer Mentoring Programme at the Department of English and German Philology Zaragoza
New Challenges for Higher Education Quality Assurance: The Peer Mentoring Programme at the Department of English and German Philology Zaragoza

Summary/Abstract: The Department of English and German Philology at the University of Zaragoza has developed a Peer Mentoring Programme at the postgraduate level during the last four academic years. The main aim of this article is to focus on the positive evolution the project has undergone: the community involved has enlarged and the results have shown that the programme contributes to the development of personal and interpersonal competences, the improvement of the students’ management of time and their academic results, which increases the quality of the postgraduate teaching and learning experiences. I would like to launch a further reflection on peer mentoring programmes by claiming that we should promote the power of human interaction and foster human values and interpersonal competencies at the university level if we want to assure quality in higher education during times of upheaval as those we are currently living.

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