“…Tutoring usually involves selected senior students giving assistance to mostly first-and secondyear students, to improve their academic performance, and is thus subject-based (Lorenza, Casado-Muñoz & Collado-Fernández, 2013). Ngengebule, Molatlhegi, Tshaka and Mamadisa (2007) describe tutoring and the role of the tutor as a well-recognised form of student support, and its operation is predominantly in the academic rather than the psycho-social space.…”