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Mentoring: Theory and Practice Peer mentoring focuses on a more experienced student helping a less experienced student improve overall academic performance, encourage mentors’ personal growth, and provides advice, support, and knowledge to the mentee’ (Colvin and Ashman 2010, p.112). Drawing on current research and your own personal experience of being a mentor, provide a detailed analysis of the role of mentoring in providing support. ‘Mentoring is increasingly being understood as a reciprocal and collaborative relationship instead of a one-way hierarchical one’ (Ghosh, Rejo Jr. 2013 p.113).