The University of Buckingham is small, but it has a big heart! The class sizes are small which facilitates better learning. The Students' Union is great if you make it great, and support services are excellent for students who need it. The job prospects here are extremely good, and this is the reason I joined. Accommodation could be better though, for example, better kitchens and bigger rooms.

I have been around universities - BSc then MBA, before current PhD, whilst working in Education for 25 years. Buckingham University is the best: to begin with: the essential, supportive administrative staff who always go the extra mile; very importantly: the most helpful and competent Library people - and sparkly new Library; access to the widest range of resources and catalogues; the world-class I.T. facilities and most patient and knowledgeable, and non-patronising I.T. support; the loveliest and safest of campuses (with really fine security staff who take their job seriously) in an historic and pleasant classic English country town, surrounded by beautiful countryside, yet close to good roads, public transport and easy routes to e.g., London and Oxford; the most informed professors with the depths of experience at senior governmental institutions and in industry, whilst contributing to respected academic research: lecturers and supervisors who are generous with their time, kindly and encouraging without telling you what to do, but guiding sufficiently - for you to work it out for yourself. Critically: very pleasing to be at a university which has no bar to free speech and welcomes all: any belief and origin from everywhere, and younger and older: there is a great atmosphere.

It is research: I have regular meetings when either my Supervisor or I need to meet. He is knowledgeable, positive, diligent, proposes areas for me to consider, sets up group seminars with other PhDs, invites me to lectures, speakers and so on who might be useful or interesting. Excellent.

Clean, comfortable, good facilities, safe, parking - nice to meet other occupants.