Council Believes 

International Students face particular challenges when they come to the UK to Study
These include 

• Awareness of the British and Welsh Culture
• New style of learning,
• understanding and fluency in English 
• Pre-arrival questions 
• Integration questions
• course related questions
• culture shock and reverse culture shock

Council Resolves 

• TSDSU Should lobby the university to create a mentoring scheme for International Students
  • providing better student-student support for 
    • Pre-Arrival - Questions and support
    • Arrival - pickups along with Senior Student officer and international officer
    • Post Arrival - Support settling and integrating in the university along with International Officer and international students society [Culture Shock]
    • Pre Departure - Support students when departing from the UK
    • Departure - Along with Senior Students Officer
    • Post Departure - Support in any reverse cultural shock
  • Students Mentors could be either of the following - 
    • Full-time Home Students
    • Full-time EU students 
    • Full-time International Students
    • Students from the same course
• TSDSU should oppose any ideas that have any alternatives to having a student mentoring scheme

Potential Risks

• GDPR
• Selection Procedure
• Efficiency of the mentors

More information can be found on these links below: 

• https://www.englishuk.com/uploads/assets/members/publications/mentoring.pdf 
• https://www.ukcisa.org.uk/Research--Policy/Resource-bank/resources/17/Mentoring-schemes-for-international-students-a-practical-guide