The current situation of Academic Tutoring at the University of Panama remains a topic that has not been discussed up to now. Although some academic units consider it from the curricular mesh in order to offer support to students, specifically at the doctoral level. Therefore, it is important to train the teaching staff in order to strengthen academic performance and minimize the failure, lag and dropout of students entering university studies.
The objective of the study was to examine the students and teachers´ perception about academic tutoring. To this end, the research question was focused on investigating whether tutoring is an innovative strategy that contributes to the quality of professional academic training of university students. To this end, the Law, Economics, Nursing, Pharmacy and Information Technology, Electronics and Communication faculties were counted as the unit of analysis. For its empirical realization, second year students were selected at random, as well as professors who work in these faculties. The research focus was exploratory, and descriptive, so the answers obtained show that a high percentage of teachers provide tutoring out of their own initiative. Students perceive tutoring as a good educational strategy that favors the improvement of the quality of teaching. In this sense, policies are required to contemplate tutoring as part of the curricula of all university degrees taught at the University of Panama.
