Student Development and Support (SDS)

Directorate of Student Development and Support (SDS)

The Directorate of Student Development and Support (SDS) facilitates the academic success and personal well-being of individual students. The Directorate is organised in service unite per learning site to ensure accessibility of services, although certain services are centralised due to their nature.

SDS offers the following programmes:

Comprehensive and proactive life skills programme (personal, social and academic outcomes) and extensive student mentorship programme in the area of academic tutoring, disability support, social support and career support.
Specialist counselling and therapeutic support parallel to the above and to address individual problems at personal and academic levels (personal, career and study counselling).
Specialist services for students with disabilities.
Potential assessment for admission as a professional support mechanism to academic departments.
Student profiling on first-time entry for early identification of academic risk factors and early interventions.
Reading, language and writing proficiency development as critical academic skill interventions.
Research, quality assurance and monitoring mechanisms.
Management, coordination and monitoring of foundational provisions in all TUT faculties.

Support Services

Career counselling
Study counselling and support
Personal counselling and therapy
Student learning centre
Student mentorship
Social support and psycho-education
Students with disability
Life skills
Academic Assessment Unit

Potential assessment
Student profiling