In Leuven as well as in Campus Kortrijk, study tutoring of first-year students is entrusted to the university monitors. They are academic staff members whose tasks consist of assisting first-year students, in a more individual and personalised way, in assimilating the course contents.
Monitors can also give course-specific technical support to small groups of students.
By appointment, individuals can call on them in order to work out, with the student, a more efficient study method, either in general or for a particular course. They are available for discussing the results of the trial examinations and, if need be, provide rehearsing or catch-up exercises. They can also help with the interpretation and evaluation of the final results, especially with a view to the second examination session or a repeat year. Monitors collaborate with the University Study Counselling Service and other university services. They usually assume the task of ombudsperson during the examination periods or work hand in hand with the ombuds service.