Mentoring Education Students At The University Of Namibia

Mentoring has become increasingly a practice across a variety of professional disciplines such as education and many other disciplines in the 21st century worldwide. The article provides a discussion into the mentoring program for education student teachers introduced by the Faculty of Education at the University of Namibia. The research focuses mainly on whether mentors like or dislike the mentoring program or it is just okay they do not like it or dislike it and their suggestions to improve the program. A survey was administered to 26 mentors at the University of Namibia Hifikepunye Pohamba Campus. Data was analyzed manually with the help of Microsoft Excel in frequencies and percentages. Results are presented in tables and further discussed in the article. Suggestions to improve the Education student mentoring program are also provided. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Selection and Peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of PSYSOC 2013