The Academic Label

The Academic Label is a youth-run mentorship initiative, for youths from all walks of life. Unique in its action-driven focus and age sensitivity, the initiative seeks to bridge inequity in the education landscape by liberalising information and experiences through its unique mentorship programme. With the 1-to-1 youth mentorship at its core, the programme actively encourages mentees to translate the insights from their mentorship into tangible action through various supplementary programmes. The mentorship is also further enriched by life counselling services provided by its partner, International Minds, enabling even the most lost of mentees, to embark on their journey of discovering themselves. The programme runs in 3 months cycles, during which mentees are matched to a mentor through a holistic matching process. Throughout their mentorship period, mentees have full access to all supplementary programmes of The Academic Label. In The Academic Label's initial pilot run between December 2022 and February 2023, the programme accepted 40 over mentees and recruited 30 over mentors. Cumulatively, in the three months of the first run, mentor-mentee pairs completed over 180 hours of mentorship. The initiative also launched the Application Support Programme, a supplementary programme aimed at guiding mentees through their tertiary education aspirations through team-based support from an incredibly diverse (and continuously growing) team of over 30 advisors representing 10 different locales. In upcoming runs, beyond scaling up the mentor and mentee intakes, the programme is expanding the Application Support Programme through school based partnerships. Pilots for programmes aimed at providing vocational experiences for mentees are also underway and are set to be launched in the upcoming runs. In line with our desire for continuous growth, the initiative's mentor pool and administrative team is constantly growing and actively welcomes all motivated persons.