Assessment of Mentoring Institutional Program in University Education

This paper shows the results of a current research project which analyzes the implementing of a mentoring institutional program based on real time conversation between the participants, focused on the experience of the mentor and the student on the educative process of a university academic program. The methodological design is based on the premises of case study, founded on interpretative perspective. Despite mentoring benefits students coursing the educative program, main findings point towards not solved problems in an effective way with its implementation, as in the case of previous academic lacks affecting students, plus their fragile economic position characteristic of the region they come from, all of which promote dropping out the school.