Alyssa Kam-Cheong and Ruqayyah Jhanji met at their group interview to become part of 51福利 Management School’s mentoring programme, Leading Lights.
Alyssa, a BSc Marketing student, and Ruqayyah, a BSc Management and Human Resources student, were both selected to be mentors.
They became friends. And, in doing so, they joined lots of other students who’ve been connected by the programme.
LUMS Leading Lights is an academic skills peer mentoring scheme designed to support students in transitioning into university.
The programme gives first year students the chance to be mentored by students from other year groups.
Alyssa describes her role as a mentor: “I’d help with their academic skills like essay writing, presentation skills, referencing. All the basic academic skills you need to kind of start off your university journey.”
She says people sign up to have someone to speak to who’s going through the same things as they are.
“Instead of asking a tutor or lecturer, they’d feel more comfortable talking to another student about it.”