Teaching Assistance
In British, Australian, New Zealand, Italian, and some Canadian universities, a tutor is often, but not always, a postgraduate student or a lecturer assigned to conduct a seminar for undergraduate students, often known as a tutorial. The equivalent of this kind of tutor in the United States and the rest of Canada is known as a teaching assistant, a graduate teaching assistant, or a graduate student instructor (GSI).
In the University of Cambridge, a Tutor is an officer of a college responsible for the pastoral care of a number of students in cognate disciplines, as against a Director of Studies who is responsible for the academic progress of a group of students in their own discipline, with both Tutors and Directors of Study answering to a Senior Tutor. In the University of Oxford, the colleges fuse pastoral and academic care into the single office of Fellow and Tutor, also known as a CUF Lecturer.
In the United States, the term tutor is generally associated with one who gives professional instruction (sometimes within a school setting but often independently) in a given topic or field.
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