About Peer Assisted Learning

Coming to college for the first time can be both an exciting and a worrying prospect.  

There are new people to meet, new friends to make, and the opportunity to study in depth a subject you enjoy.  At the same time, you’ll probably be wondering whether you’ll be able to keep up with your studies, write assignments to an appropriate standard, organise your time effectively, and have the confidence to present your ideas in front of other people.

Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) is designed to help first year students cope better with all these aspects of life at third level. 

• PAL Programme - Phase 1 Evaluation Report (PDF, 680KB)

Phase 2 of GMIT PAL programme commences in September 2009. There will be 12 programmes running PAL sessions in September.

• What does PAL offer students?

• What are the intended outcomes of PAL?

• What are the experiences of other students who have taken part in PAL programmes?

• What's the background to PAL?

• Who's managing PAL at GMIT?