A member of academic staff takes responsiblity for the scheme, but day to day running is the responiblity of an SI co-ordinator. Ideally this person would be a resent graduate from th esame department, but if the scheme runs in several departments one co-ordinator could take organisational resposiblity for all of these. Student leaders and the SI co-ordinator meet for one hour per week for feedback, reflective discussion and dealing with problems. This meeting is freindly and relaxed. Attendance ai SI sessions is voluntary and confidential to encourage trust between the SI leader and students who attend.
Leaders provide feedback to acadmic staff, either through the co-ordinator or directly.
Planning Second and third year students from the course were invited to volunteer for a session which presented the ideas behind the scheme. Fifteen students attended and subsequently all of those studnets agreed to take part and to undertake the required two days of training, with a view to final selection of only those who successfully completed the training. In fact, all of these students, who had selected themselves initially, became Student Leaders. A slight problem arose, in that three of these students were direct entrants from other Institutions to second year, and had not followed precisely the same curriculum as their peers. This meant that they had not been through the same lecture programme as the students they would be required to help.