Abstract
Mentorship is one of the many factors that affect the students’ all round learning and development for creating a sustainable education. There are numerous benefits of mentorship – building confidence to creating employability, for mentees; teaching values to practicing self- reflection, for mentors; and improving organizational effectiveness to evolving a strategy for stress management, for organizations. However, the prevailing conditions in India’s government education system reflect that there is hardly any orientation to practicing mentorship in schools, colleges, and universities. Hence, the present study aims at understanding the need and importance of mentorship in the institutions of national importance such as NITs, IIITs, IITs in India. For this purpose, 334 students (202 male and 132 female) studying UG, PG, and research programmes of Humanities, Economics, Bio-Medical, Manufacturing Science, Mathematics, Ocean Engineering, Industrial and System, Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Architecture in reputed institutions like IITs, NITs and Engineering Colleges in India participated in the study. Data were collected by administering the questionnaire related to mentor-mentee relationship through a Google form. The data were analyzed and interpreted both qualitatively and quantitatively. It was found that there is no significant co-relationship between students seeking advice for their personal growth and students seeking advice for their academic success, and students seeking advice for their professional development. The study recommends that mentorship at every level of formal education should be practiced for teachers as well as students’ personal development, academic success, and professional growth.
Conflict of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Ethical Approval
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Data Availability
The datasets used in this study are openly available at [repository link] and the source code is available on GitHub at [GitHub link].
Funding
This work did not receive any external funding.
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