University of Gloucestershire

The new business school on Oxstalls campus is impressive but I still do not think the university experience is worth the £9000 a year.

Film Production course is poorly organised and has a ridiculous grading system which means that essentially one member of a group not pulling their weight can drag the whole group down so everyone fails. Lecturers provide limited reasoning behind grades that don't make sense, and there is also no appeal process. I worked extremely hard on one assignment and failed, yet feigned work for another and received a strong pass. What is going on?? Poor communication, never knowing where the lectures are being held or what days to go in. Lecturers rely on communication and planning/organising lectures and workshops through Facebook which is often catastrophic as notices can get lost or posted last minute! There is a good helpzone and some support in the university, but some members of staff can be rude and just want to encourage you to spend more money. Don't recommend, especially not the Film Production course. If you can do something more academic, it's probably going to be better. Starting to wish I had gone for something more like English Literature where I can rely on my own work to get a grade.

Poor value for money,my course i not what I was promised and therefore has lead to much strife between our class

Although I have had a generally positive time over my 3 years here, this is largely down to the friends that I have met and the sheer amount of time and effort that I have spent doing things of my own accord. The university has been unsupportive of my course with no extra assistance being given considering that we are a newly developing course. Unprepared from the get go with minimal facilities, unsuitable studios and lecturers and a general sense of disorganisation all round. Where it has seemed that other courses have access to a course budget to assist students, we have sen nothing. I have personally had to pay out hundreds of pounds of my own money on top of my tuition to provide things which are compulsory for the course because the university has refused to subsidise costs, this includes printing, art supplies and compulsory trips which other courses all get for free! In our third year we have lecturers who are purposefully denying us graduate opportunities through spite, and refusing to help students with work! All in all it can be seen in the satisfaction ratings and graduate prospects of all students on the course that it has hardly been worth our time or money being here at all.

They don't do what they said they did on the inductions, feel like I've been lead on. There is also mass favouritism with lecturers