Paramedic Practice

Edge Hill University

I have recently started my first year here. I chose to come to Edge Hill over anywhere else due to its Manchester central location with great transport links nearby, as well as I felt it would be the best choice to get some really good experience. So far, the lecturers have been really helpful, nice, and approachable. The facilities are nice, the building is nice in Manchester. The cohorts are quite big but this is split up where needed for practical stuff so you don’t feel like those aspects are compromised. The amount of times we are asked to give feedback is amazing. I’ve never studied somewhere that asks for so much feedback. The best bit is that they actually come and talk to us about the feedback after they have begun to implement it too. A lot of the time, feedback gets given and nothing seems to come of it at some places. This is different and the cohort lead really has impressed me with this. The St James’ Campus is right across the street from a major train station so people come from all over to university. The balance of online lectures and in person lectures I feel is nicely blended. Assignment feedback that is given is brief, but informative and is followed with the option to have a discussion around the feedback. I have found the student support in terms of services is not massively visible, but we are made aware of who to contact and the website has many links to helpful pages and to contacts if needs be. This campus is in a building, and basically is one floor of a building which has other companies in. Therefore, you find that the foyer downstairs is very busy at peak times. This is beyond their control. The simulation room and the clinical skills labs are well equipped and are looked after by a really friendly and chatty guy who supports our learning. I work on weekends and i’m not the youngest guest student so I don’t get really involved with social aspects of university so I can’t really comment on those. I know they sometimes do pub crawls and other similar things. Recently, the uni organised some time for us to interact with therapy animals which was a really valuable and enjoyable time. I would recommend that they do more of those. Again. the student union is something I am aware of but haven’t had the chance to interact with.