The PADSHE approach to Personal Development Planning (PDP)

• Institution-wide guidelines with scope for individual interpretation by discipline
  
  
• Academic led, via a proactive, equal-entitlement approach to academic support and guidance
  
  
• Dual-purpose Personal and Academic Records (PARs)
  - PDP for students
  - QAA documentation for departments
  
  
• Staff-student partnership in one-to-one discussions
  - academic feedback and progress overviews
  - option choices and forward plans
  
  
• Quality-assured personal tutoring
  - published calendar of PAR-related events in every department
  - published baseline agendas for tutor-tutee meetings, agreed by staff and students
  
  
• Holistic developmental component: opportunities for students to record and plan
  - skills and career development
  - work experience
  - extra-curricular activities