Sustainability postgraduate degrees

Best aspects- The projecs are helping me build a strong portfolio, and they provide lots of networking opportunities. The lecturers are great and supportive. With the KSA workshops, the technitians tell us they want us to be independent after merely 1 induction, which feels quite daunting. I found that when i was stuck on something and asked technitians for help, they seemed irritated. This is not always the case. But perhaps there could be more support in your first few bookings of the workshop spaces.

What makes my uni a great place to study is their student support. They try to help their students in any way possible to ensure that students get the best out of their education. I think it would be better if the university put more effort into societies and clubs such as sporting clubs and teams . It would help the university to have more of a community and really showcase other talents other than what students already study on their courses. My university do have societies and some sporting teams, however some of the societies don’t run anymore and it’s not made to be as big as it was when I first heard about it before I joined uni. I think it’s important to have that feel of community and university culture and to also show the inclusiveness of different cultures, groups and activities in which people associate them selves with.

I love the overall uni feeling as it is very student targeted and is lively therefore making it quite nice to socialise and study, teachers are really interesting and often listen to student feedback. That being said, student feedback doesn't have much of a meaningful impact as it is assessed quite late into the terms. In some cases, it is also looked at artificially or not being listened to at all when it comes to administrative things.

The actual university was fine. The new building has a lot of great facilities but some of them can only be used by people from that actual course. Sewing machines and work spaces can get really busy. Nice interior design and layout.

Best aspect is probably meeting new people and living on my own, my life feels a lot more simpler and organised. Worst aspect is that uni can also be stressful, I also have problems with location of stores I wish we had a large store nearby like a Sainsbury's or Tesco's.

Best parts: access to loads of learning materials Worst parts: not much free activities, communication with student union isn’t great so I tend to miss out on activities which impacts my social life and mental health Also the school doesn’t provide support with finding a placement