Institute of Counselling Reviews

All the material was relavent to the course. The examples were good.

Overall the course enlightened me on the concept of coaching/ mentoring and having to write the dissertation was helpful as I was able to use theories concept/ coaching principles/ Glows technique etc. All this was expressed by working with a client during session.

plenty to read and good advice on extra references and resources

Interesting and relevant

Excellent course materials

Covered a wide range of topics relevant to mentoring. I found the practical exercises a useful way of recapping on the learning.

Easy accessible and easy to follow.Comprehensive material

Brilliant. I have limited access to a Library, but found all course material very useful.

Materials were very comprehensive and easy to understand

The course content and materials were very good overall. However, I would like to make a few comments: 1.Study materials: The pdf files that materials come in are protected, which means that nothing can be either copied for printing or highlighted for studying electronically. This meant I had to print out all materials to make highlight and notes. Further, I like to copy and paste assignment tasks for tutor's and my own reference in the Portfolio, however, I found I had to take screenshots of that instead or type it all up myself. To conclude, the protected document mode was highly frustrating to me. 2.Study materials: The study materials come in parts, rather than in one large document. This means that when you want to look up something specific and you cannot remember where you read it, you need to search in a number of different documents, instead of one. This, combined with inability to highlight important concepts or attach notes (see point 1 above about protected document mode), makes it doubly difficult and frustrating. 3.TMA: I felt that TMA guidelines could have been more specific and mapped out on to the marking criteria more clearly. This generated some anxiety in me as I was worried I may not have covered everything, and that what I covered may not score many points as per marking criteria. 4.TMA: Finally, it would be helpful to have word count guidance for each section of TMA (at the moment, only the overall and the word count for the transcript part is provided).