Xaverian College...what a fantastic place…read more This is where I actually became who I am today. I know that sounds silly but this college is fantastic. I learnt more here in two years than I did in five years at high school. The teachers here really bring you out of yourself, they actually care about the students, not just about the grades. I'm still in touch with most of my tutors now, they care what I've been up to since I left and always get in touch to congratulate me on anything I achieve. The range of subjects is vast and the campus keeps getting bigger and better. It's much different to most other colleges as the buildings are spread right out although not too far so you can still walk to all of them comfortably. It's so different to school, everyone is treated as an adult and it was such a good grounding before university, I don't think I'd have been half as prepared for uni if it wasn't for Xaverian.

My overall opinion is 5 stars!…read more Sure some departments are better than others and the quality of teaching will vary, but I believe that Lancaster is one of the best campus-based Universities in the country and definately the best in the North West.

Although my course at lancaster may not have been the most rewarding (I no longer work in the field…read morein which I studied), that was probably more down to choice than teaching. I enjoyed my 3 years at lancaster and certainly felt comfortable and relaxed within the strong community that existed within the college system. Lots of places to shop and eat on campus means that you rarely need to leave (if you're being lazy). It is a self contained town, but well linked by buses to the outside world. I still head back now and then for a beer at one of the bars and am always welcome, even though I'm no longer a student there.

I loved every minute of my time at Hull University. World class academics and teaching, small…read moreclasses, beautiful campus, fantastic library, vibrant student's union all set in an extremely affordable city...I, for one, couldn't have asked for more.

I spent 6 happy years here (a BSc followed by a PhD). Hull is a really friendly University and also…read morehas a good academic reputation. It is a great place to study and I would recommend it to anyone. I made loads of friends who I still see regularly some 10 years later. It is not a huge university which makes it al the more friendly and is set on a lovely campus. The student Union is a great place with plenty of things going on and there is a big library, sports centre etc etc.

York Uni is a combination of several colleges on one campus…read more It is set in beautiful grounds with lakes and has a pub and a bar, bookshop and library. I have stayed here as an academic but it really is the cheapest place to stay if you want a holiday or have business in York. Out of term time they do very cheap B & B and also self catering apartments for 6 or more. It is all under £100 each for the week. I think a twin room is around the £80 mark and that includes breakfast. It is an easy stroll into York. I remember one student saying he had gone for a walk to the kebab shop and seen some pseudo walls like a film set. NO The Barbican and medieval walls! Off the campus in the other direction is the village of Hesslington which has a couple of decent pubs that do food but of course there is all that York can offer in the way of food and entertainment the other way. Heslington makes a nice, quite change one evening though. The reason for the 4 stars. Well student accomodation is very basic but it is the b*y ducks! You cannot easily sit on the grass and you trail in duck pup. They started with 2 (think they are Canadian geese) and now they have hundreds! Anyway all of you wanting to visit York here is the cheap B & B! Giving away my secrets now it will be full when I want to go :)

The University of York campus is sandwiched between the city walls and the pretty village of…read moreHeslington. Its sixties concrete building were considered quite innovative at the time, I believe, but they take a bit of getting used to. Luckily, there's a very pleasant campus to help on that front, though the geese are far less welcoming. York is the only university in the country without a central student venue so don't expect a packed SU bar; the majority of the college bars are pretty dead, when they're open. The closest thing to a student bar you'll find is the King Charles XII pub in Heslington village; their cheap booze ensures they're rammed to the rafters with students in term-time. Otherwise it's but a twenty-minute walk to the centre of town and its plethora of bars, pubs and restaurants.

I went to this college 13 years ago and loved it. I studied…read morecatering and hsopitality, at the time they had a great set up with 2 public restaurants that the students would work in. It was a great way to get real hands on experience. They offer many different courses.

I carried out my Erasmus at the University of Leeds and I reckon it was the best choice I could…read morehave ever taken. The campus is simply amazing, well resourced and equipped. The uni shows a number of great facilities, well-stocked libraries, computer clusters, gyms, shops, supermarkets and places to eat. The standard of teaching is very high, and there are lots of activities and events for exchange students, where you can meet people coming from all over the world. In addition, loads of sport activities and huge lists of societies to join need to be mentioned. Accomodations are pretty good, even though a bit expensive. Definitely a greate place to live and study!

I have studied my BEng & MEng at the UoL since 2009. I love the city and love the University. I…read morehave had some great years here and some great memories. Due to the age of the university there are some very large societies and an amazing SU (Student Union).

If I had to describe this college into three words, it would be: Full of crap. I went to this…read morecollege with high hopes, thinking that it would be better than my old secondary school. It was worse. The first experience I had with the college was a few interviews, they showed me round the college and understood my mental health issues (or so I thought). They had promised me that they don't condone bullying and it will be handled immediately. I had previously been badly bullied in my secondary so when they promised me this I was quite relieved. My first day at this college was overwhelming. Which I understand first days can be stressful, the timetable was simple and it was easy to get around (at first). As the week progressed however people started talking about me behind my back. Something I didn't learn till one of my friends mentioned that someone had tried talking bad about me to them. I learned who this person was and immediately reported it to my tutor who said that it would be handled with. Over the span of the winter period things had not changed. As a matter of fact things got worse, I was starting to get harassed by a few students in the hallway and in classrooms. This lead me to report it and again they said "it would be handled with". In the meantime I swapped over to a new group for my course to be away from these few people that were harassing me. However this just made things worse as the group that I had joined was ahead of me in the course so I was really really far behind and I struggled really bad catching up. Cause I was so far behind on the course I noticed a change in my teachers behaviour which left a bad taste in my mouth. He started talking to me in a horrible and nasty tone and would give me really really bad looks. This really made me begin to hate the course. Time passed and the teachers just got worse with their attitude and their looks towards me. I no longer felt I could talk to them nor report any negative things from people. My mental health started to take an even bigger toll on me and I began not turning up to the college. I tried explaining to the teachers that my mental health was making it really hard for me to turn up but they just swiped it off their shoulders. I tried signing up for mental health sessions in the college but ultimately never heard back from them. Eventually I just gave up and stopped going to the college for weeks on end, my attendance went down and I just really didn't want to be there anymore. This lead me to my final straw and I just decided that I would not be going back there again. I signed up for a new college and said to myself that I would not be going back there ever again. This is just my experience there. I know some peoples experiences will be different, but if you care about your mental state then DO NOT GO HERE!

I left here in 2019 after my first year finished. I didn't come back for the second year. The…read morecollege was terrible and the college is just overrated. In 2019 their vice principal at time Kelly Rinaldi was growling at me when I was walking past her in the corridor. I remember when they refused to let me do Level 3 and A Level courses I wanted to do there and yet they were people who were resitting English and Maths GCSE courses which they failed at secondary school doing Level 3 and A Levels courses. There were people who weren't eligible doing Level 3 courses or A Levels courses there. Yet Leon Riley has the audacity to say in his meetings that everyone in the college doing A Level or Level 3 courses have English and Maths. When staff members spit facts at him he tells them off when he is lying about it. Leon Riley and Kelly Rinaldi were both stooges. Leon Riley, Kelly Rinaldi and higher ups all harass teachers while the teachers are teaching their students in lessons when they are doing teaching inspecting. Tons of staff members have left the college due to bad management and new rules in the college because of this the college barely has staff members now. The only reason why they get good results is because they kick students off courses if they don't do well. There were some people in my classes from Lincolnshire areas who had no qualifications or had barely any qualifications who got into this college. They let in everybody from the catchment areas for the college. So don't listen to the false advertisements or PR about this college. Their secondary school Leggott Academy which was running for a few years got shut down because they got the worst GCSE results in England. For the year 2018 to 2019 when I was there the college barely got any students in the college due to losing tons of students to different colleges. Also I was at the enrollment day event in 2018 there were loads of students there yet most of them didn't go to college. There was this teacher Julie Huntington who had a stroke in class and the ambulance came to college. She had a stroke because of stress from Leon Riley, Kelly Rinaldi and higher ups. In my Level 3 Art BTEC class there were a large number of students in my class but near the end of the course there were five people in the class because everyone else either dropped out of the college or got kicked out of the college for attendance and low grades results. Just a heads up the creative arts department in John Leggott College is the only good department in the college and they get the best results every year. I was doing these courses Level 3 Games Development and Level 3 BTEC Computing at the college for a few months when I first started the college. The college kicked me off both of the courses halfway through the courses and I also did a bunch of work for those courses. I even wrote a 1000 word essay during my summer holidays for the Level 3 Games Development summer task what a waste of time. The college kicked me off these courses and yet there were people who weren't eligible for the courses due to their qualifications that were allowed to do these courses and they kicked me off. Steph and Gren are both plonkers and the media department is the worst department in the college. Gren was growling at me when I walked past him in 2018. Gren messed a lot of people around and myself due to making promises which he didn't deliver. I remember when I was in Hungerhill in 2018 he said I was accepted for Level 3 Games Development but then he and his media department changed their minds last minute while I was doing the course in a span of a few months. The funny part is now I have a HND in Games Development and a Degree in Games Development. I was in this GCSE Maths resit class here for a year which had a bunch of chavy teenagers in class being cringe, disruptive, problematic and acting like they were in secondary school. Half of a year of the GCSE Maths course I was doing the teacher Celia didn't show up to the lessons. She didn't want to do the lessons because her excuses was she was too busy doing A-Levels lessons and A Levels Maths students are more important. So the college brought in a bunch of cover teachers from schools and other colleges. The cover teachers didn't know what they were doing because nobody informed them what they were supposed to do. Due to Celia, Jamie and other staff members in the Maths department being so bad and teaching me all the wrong stuff which wasn't in the Maths GCSE exam papers. I ended up teaching myself and revising the topics the teachers didn't cover in lessons which were in Maths GCSE exam papers in my own time. I ended up dropping out of the college after my first year there when I was 17 due to the college messing me around several times and the college was atrocious.

i applied for some courses at barnsley college the reception staff told me these courses was for…read more24+ so i applied for them but this week before i was going too interview i had a phone call from one of the tutors he said if i go for these course for every year it would be £4000 per year and there is no funding for 24+ but on there website it say the courses are between £964 and £1500 a year. if it is 4000 a year for adults you need too inform people before they appile for the course and change the prices on line because your letting people appile and get there hope up that they can have a great career when it wont you just lie too them

Firstly, it's spelt 'Aquinas'. Secondly, I've been attending for six months now, and I've been…read moreenjoying all of it. The staff are all friendly, the lessons are great and very well taught, add to that a plethora of extra curricular stuff like sports, College Magazine, Creative Writing, and even an Anime club. The only real big problem with the college is 'Ethics', which is both annoying and pointless, and whats worse is it's an enforced part of the curriculum. Aquinas College, in 2009 surpassed all other local colleges, including the non-state schools, and came out #1 in Stockport. It has close links with several European colleges and regularly partakes in exchanges, currently hosting the Romanian exchange (as of 5/2/09). Several trips are also part of the curriculum, including trips to Rome for Classics, Poland for History and India, for the colleges India project, of which a massive fundraising scheme has been held each year for the past 10 years. Opportunities are also present with talks from several institutions including Journalism talks from the BBC. The latest Ofsted report described Aquinas as 'an outstanding college'. The adjective 'outstanding' was found to occur 26 times in the finished report. The report praised the friendly and positive environment for students to learn in. It was also touched upon that the use of IT was well applied to keep students engaged. Furthermore: Teachers and support staff work very well together to provide outstanding guidance and support. The college's response to education and social inclusion is outstanding. A broad curriculum meets the needs of students very well. Alternative pathways are available for students not yet ready to study at advanced level and the college works hard to engage students who may otherwise not participate in further education. Extensive enrichment activities and voluntary work enhances students'skills. The Every Child Matters themes are embedded in all aspects of college life. A list of Key strengths was drawn up: - Inclusive college - High success rates on many courses - Very good value added on A2 - Excellent individual support for students - Productive partnerships - Outstanding governance - Outstanding range of courses and enrichment activities. Ofsted also criticized the present building as being too cramped for the current demand for students. In response, a new college is currently being constructed, with the old one being demolished upon completion. Additional reading: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4016399.stm - Hundreds que for places at college http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Monaghan - Aquinas alumni http://www.aquinas.ac.uk/ - Aquinas website