I think my university experience has been very enriching and the positioning of the uni has made it easy to enjoy the local aspects of Ormskirk. The journey from uni to the town is pretty easy and it feel like it’s one big campus.

Extremely good, they have everything anyone would need to do any sport, study, and dance.

I think the campus life and wellbeing offices are very good with their response times however, sometimes some of their strategies have been ineffective for a few girls I know.

I don’t understand the students union concept, nor did I realise there was any representation. But the SU bar and Venue are lovely for the socials on a Wednesday evening. They’re open till 1;00 and allow everyone to drink in a safe environment and get along with people of all ages.

The positioning of the uni is fantastic! It is a one minute, free bus ride from Ormskirk center. Cheap food shops such as Morrison’s and Aldi are close by and are friendly to the student budget. There are really lovely bars and one club for the evening which allows you to meet students from loads of different courses and they are budget friendly. The train station is a 250 yard walk from the bus station and that allows you to travel to Liverpool for as little at £2.50! This opens up other opportunities for evening activities, such as clubbing and junkyard golf. However, the only downside to this is that getting back to uni after 11:30 can cost between £25 and £40 for a taxi, unless you’d like to stay out until 6:00 for the first train home. With these facts in mind I think the positioning of edge hill uni is very nice. For year 2 some people go to live in the center of Liverpool and use their cars for travel, with this in mind, I think that they should try and create even more car parks, or be allowed to create a multi story on the big car park. A friend on my course takes 2 hours a day to get parked on the furthest away car park of them all. She has to plan for parking time as well as travel time to get to her lessons. Further more, she has on the tennis courts that are far away from the buildings and feel obsolete and bleak at night, and when we finish at 8:00 she can often feel nervous walking to her car. I would personally love to have my car so I can go home easily and see my family regularly. It also would make going food shopping easier and going to Liverpool or Manchester easy, but I know with the current parking conditions this won’t be possible. On terms of accommodation, I think that some of the rooms are amazing and some of them are below average. I was based in main halls, John Dalton, the carpets were mouldy, there were leaks in the ceiling, the corridors smelt mouldy and the kitchen always smelt bad. The shared facilities weren’t cleaned daily and were often in an extremely grim condition. However in palatine it’s like a different world for only £15 more a week. The new main halls, clough, which have a washing machine in the kitchen, brand new sofas and showers with seals so the bathrooms don’t flood, by comparison, are cheaper than John Dalton!

The selection of societies is very good and the sports activities are amazing. The facilities for these societies are very advanced and allow the university to add multiple societies that the students think of.

For musical theatre I think it is ridiculous that we only have 12 contact hours a week with only 7 of them being practical. I think there should be a lot more training in this course and more dance hours. When people are looking for people to employ in musical theatre, they look for people who can dance and then hear weather you can sing and act. If we aren’t taught enough dance when we have less chance for employability.

12

For my course you can do a sandwich year in year 3 in another country. This would hopefully allow you to experience broadway and america and there are constantly opportunities to work abroad. However I think the different between the placements in our course and nursing for example are extreme, girls in my flat in nursing have had 4 placements in year one alone since April, but musical theatre doesn’t have any until year 2 or 3, this gives you less opportunity to improve emplyablility, but more time to train.

I think the cost is very reasonable, but the safety conditions - as it’s an open campus - are concerning. There have been multiple break ins recently and armed robberies. Security responded quickly but the fact that drink people who live in halls let random people in is very scary at times. Having said this, I don’t know how this aspect of security can be improved.

Really good. Not without challenges but worth every minute . I would say that’s it’s not as easy as you think it will be. And you won’t like everyone, and everyone is different.

Very good

Good from lecturers, and mostly from seminar tutors. Best one is when they are the same person. Counsellor isn’t very helpful

Very good

Yes, the centre is within walking distance

very good

I like the independence. I dislike the lack of guidance with how you could improve past stuff

8

Careers fares, employability modules, emails

This year had issues with the landlords eg broken locks on doors/lack of electricity/lighting. But overall not too bad