How to enjoy your mentee's success and learn from it.

Mentoring plays a central role in academic life. It is based mainly on mutual respect between mentor and mentee, and requires effort, continuity and consideration for different learning styles. It demands hard work, discipline, rigour, creativity, honesty and integrity. Both mentor and mentee must profit and learn from the process of mentoring in order to fulfil an essential purpose of the university. Their relationship represents the bond between the past and the future.