PASS or Peer Assisted Study Sessions was first introduced at the University of Sunderland in September 2019, but it is based around a proven model for peer-led learning known as PASS, which began in the 1970s in the USA.
PASS is now spread across the globe, and the University of Sunderland has joined a number of UK universities in offering some variation of the scheme. The PASS Supervisor Team works as part of the North of England Academic Peer Learning Network, the International Forum for Peer Learning, and the European Centre for PASS in order to ensure the delivery is the best it can be here at the University of Sunderland.
Here at the University of Sunderland, we offer a bespoke training programme to our PASS Leaders, which prepares them for delivering PASS to our first year students, both in an online and face to face environment. This means that your experience of PASS at University of Sunderland is uniquely different to that offered at any other university.