At Essex the nature surrounding the university add to the appeal. It makes it great for getting coffee with friends and walking around the lakes. The perks of the University is the selection of different food and places to get coffee. Another is the market that comes ever Thursday bring in local goods onto campus. Essex has a good sense of community with different types of societies and student led activities. Such as performances at the Hex building. Plus the campus cat, it’s always lift students up when seeing him around campus. A room for improvement at the Essex is the night life, it has potential. The music doesn’t align with the theme of the night. Another is the nightlife is repetitive should have more of a mix in the themes or music. Overall Essex is a good university. It has a lot to offer and due to this it’s easy to find your way at university. The staff are willing to help you and provide any support they can. If it is out of there control they will try there best to find someone who can help.

Childhood studies is a great course. This course you look into the interdisciplinary that make up and create an understanding of childhood. Through this, It challenges your ideas and where all these perspectives on childhood came from. The professor present well thought out presentation and are passionate about their work. It is all in person but listen again makes it helpful if you missed any information. The lectures are all 2 hours with a break in the middle.

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The campus appears nice and sometimes can be friendly but mostly It feels like its lacking in friendliness, the support is in place for issues related to my course and overall wellbeing. Participating in group and social activities is difficult and feels inaccessible a lot of the time. I feel quite isolated at times.

Course content is only sometimes interesting. Lecturers are mostly engaging and sometimes try to make the content interesting. The placements team have been incredibly helpful and supportive, the placement has been an exciting opportunity that feels like it has actually contributed to my career prospects because the teaching certainly doesn't exactly feel like it offers any prospects on its own. My tutor has always been friendly, available and truly appears to care about the success of their students. There are no subject specific facilities or resources offered, only the basics such as a reading list exist and even that has issues sometimes. More should absolutely and needs to be made available.

The accommodation is a wonderful and modern building with all the necessary services provided, cleanliness is maintained and support and security is available 24/7. WiFi, laundry, water, heating, etc all perform as good as expected from a new building. The cost is good for the product offered however the management are constantly looking for any excuse to charge residents additional costs. The room allocation system is mostly random with requests possible but not exactly advertised or easy to have. The location is nice and features a nearby supermarket, on site shop and is located only 15 minutes from central campus.