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The annual Whatuni Student Choice Awards (WUSCAs) highlight the incredible work carried out by institutions for their students. This year’s awards were based on reviews from over 30,000 students across the UK.
2022 WUSCA winners
Reviewed: 25 Apr 22
Covid made it hard for everyone, however the university provided as much help as possible to the students including me giving people another chance to resit if needed. This helped me a lot and I hopefully am now going into my third and final year in September!
Teachers always helpful and give up there spare time if needed.
Easy to access with public transport also many car parking spaces available for people who also drive.
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Reviewed: 25 Apr 22
Some of the staff and PhD students are really arrogant - I would of left - it wasn't worth the time.
Staff were pretty unhelpful - and I failed most of my modules - I don't really know what some of them are doing here other than occupying space.
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Reviewed: 24 Apr 22
Really awful University. The course is still online even though coronavirus restrictions have been lifted. Feedback on essays is not helpful, once received a one-word comment on a 1500-word essay. They don't care about you as a student, just want your money. Definitely avoid
Everything is still online for no reason, paying 9k a year to sit in my room on my computer. There is no excuse for how appallingly bad this university is.
Murano is definitely the best halls for meeting people and the cheapest.
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Reviewed: 24 Apr 22
It is located in the heart of the city with easy access to many facilities. It's diverse multi-cultural environment ensures that people from all walks of life are made to feel welcome.
The mixture of large lectures along with small seminar based sessions with tutors ensures that you're able to cover a great breadth of content in detail, alongside being exposed to diverse viewpoints of your fellow peers and their ways of approaching academic concepts.
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Reviewed: 24 Apr 22
The environment at Aston is very unique as you are surrounded by greeny as well as shops, restaurant and other facilities. The university experience is different compared to before lockdown as I have lectures online and mostly do work at home. Therefore I would improve the experience by spending more time at the university and joining clubs and societies.
I rather like my course as we explore different areas of accouting. I am currently in my first year so I have not done a lot in accouting so far but I am looking forward to the upcoming modules and placement year.
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Reviewed: 23 Apr 22
I loved almost everything here, the only issue I had was the blended learning. If only covid didn’t exist, this wouldn’t have been much of a problem. Other than that, I had a great time
It was an honour learning for some of the great minds in the university. Not only did we learn about different stuffs, we gained a lot of knowledge along the way as well. Things were well taught and we even had a great bond along with the lecturers
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Reviewed: 23 Apr 22
As a one-year postgraduate student at the university, there are plenty of things that could be improved. The actual teaching is fairly good - it's obvious that a lot of reading, revision and work will be expected, but generally speaking, lecturers are engaging, friendly and the workshops are more like group challenges, rather than the bog-standard lectures most universities offer. I would perhaps like to see more of a pre-workshop lecture take place, as sometimes the prep work can be incredibly overwhelming, and it really makes a difference when a lecturer takes 45 minutes or so, just to go over the weeks tasks and outcomes for the unit. The administration on the other hand, are absolutely shocking. I requested to change course pathway, and by the time they got round to emailing me back about it, it had fallen over the liability fee date. I ended up paying £200 more, for a course that I was moving to in order to save money in the first place. Emails go unnoticed for weeks at a time, constantly chasing up where my course change is up to. I'm weeks away from exams, and still no confirmation to suggest that my transfer has been successful. This is despite having completely paid off the course fees + the extra that they wanted, but failed to explain clearly to me what they were for. The exam admin system is pretty poor, too. We were weeks late in receiving our mock exam results back, for no good reason (our lecturers ended up having to take time out of the lesson to individually provide us with the grade and feedback, so we weren't waiting even longer). At the start of the course last year, we were told we'd be given the chance to work on some volunteering projects in several different legal areas, such as the phone advice clinic and school consent projects. We signed up for this, and heard absolutely nothing about it since. If you want to do the SQE pathway with the MA, they advise that they can offer 4 weeks QWE towards qualifying. What they don't tell you is it's unpaid, and full time. Great if you're a student with family to support you, but for those like myself who work alongside studying, it really pushes the narrative that only certain students take precedent for opportunities like those. The email I got when I asked why this was, was because ''it's unpaid, because you don't need to pay to do it''.... you don't need to pay to start any job, though? What sort of reason is that? The facilities are decent. My campus in particularly is relatively small, but being in the city centre, it's really convenient and the internal library is open until late and on weekends, which is a huge help. I don't really know much about the SU, other than the occasional email I receive about it. It doesn't seem as much of a big deal at the university compared to larger, one-campus uni's. Overall, I just feel the university is lacking in admin support in order to make things more sufficient for students. The fact I personally, and everyone else in my class, are paying at least £12,000 to study there is not really acceptable when we're left waiting for responses to enquires, exam results, as well as our actual exam coursework instructions being released late. Probably wouldn't recommend, unless perhaps you were part-time and didn't need to spend so much time there each week.
As stated, workshops are pretty good, but could do with some more pre-workshop lectures to ensure we're all up to speed with the work each week. Work placements offered at the start of the year then disappeared, never to be heard of again. Really lacking for post-graduate students. A lot of law firm sessions and open days only offered to UG students. Contact time is limited - once weekly sessions for 2 hours per unit, and emails are often ignored or a huge delay in response.
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Reviewed: 23 Apr 22
Not been impressed with my first year at this university. So much so that I will not be continuing on with this course into second year. Though the facilities are good it doesnt outweigh the cons of the course overall. It is unorganised, uninteresting and has overall been a very poor experience. The timetable changes every week, and lessons can be cancelled on the day, there has been poor demonstration with the film equipment meaning students are unconfident when they are told to go out and make a documentary. I feel as if the first year at Leeds Beckett has not taught me anything that I didn't already know coming out of A-Levels. Watching BBC bitesize videos in one of the few lectures we have is not university standard in my eyes. The work set is basic, to be sent out for over an hour to record people showing us "What they have in their bags" just feels very inappropriate to me. And I feel like certain lecturers can feel very patronising. I know myself and a number of other students have felt not respected at times with the way we can be spoken to. I do want to say that some of the lecturers are lovely and clearly very passionate about what they do and often still work in the industry, but if you fall unlucky to not be taught by one of these it can very much fall to your detriment. However, due to some still working outside of the university it can mean that they can be unavailable when you need help with set work. Overall, I believe this course needs a lot of work. I am very disappointed and upset that I will have to restart my first year of university elsewhere because of the low standard.
The contact hours for this course are extremely low, sometimes as little as 3 hours in a week. And quite often stuff that is "taught" over zoom should very much be in person and vice versa. In April of the first year we have only just finished our first film, whereas a friend doing a similar course at another university has done 4. Coming towards the end of the year, it is difficult to say anything that I have learned other than what I want out of a university course. If you have a keen interest in film making, I would strongly a different institution as though this course claims to be practical, I know it is very much lacking in that department compared to other universities. I wouldn't recommend Leeds Beckett to any one interested in a Film making degree.
We have our own washer dryer in every flat. That beats any other accommodation with Leeds Beckett Univesity.
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Reviewed: 23 Apr 22
As I did this remotely, I cannot comment on the facilities or support in person, but I can comment on the enrolment process. It did take a while for the enrolment team to get back to me with an update on my enrolment status. There was no good communication to keep me up-to-date with how it was going. I only found out that I was enrolled close to the date to start the course. If you do sign up for this, be prepared for weeks of silence before finding out if you're got a place or not.
This online remote MSc Computer Science course is relatively new, so I knew going into this there would be teething problems for UoY to rectify as the course went on. I happened to have taken this course up during the covid period with all the lockdowns and sudden policy changes at UoY as a result. I took the pure Computer Science route with no specialisation. This has 10 taught modules at 15 credits each, and an Individual Research Project at 30 credits. What I found interesting is that each taught module varies in support, teaching method/quality and basic knowledge of some commonly known IT methods. For instance, some modules have interesting and well narrated lesson videos, but the support was limited and assessment was terribly organised and unfair. And then we have modules with terrible videos where I could barely hear the lecturer and subtitles had strange typos, but support is great and the assessment is more balanced and fair. If you decide to do this course, just keep in mind that you may be going into it with a professional background in a field that the lecturers and tutors may only have a surface understanding of. This means certain things you may think is 2nd nature within the IT world and should not require thorough explaining may get not be understood by the person marking your work and not be graded. Even introducing approaches not in the taught modules but are being used in real-life scenarios may not be recognised. You will have to follow the actual taught content and follow what it is the markers are looking for within their narrow viewpoint of the subject for best results. Complaints about received grades is a waste of time, because once the person marking it has made their choice on your grade, it is highly unlikely to change. There is also a feeling that the course is over-enrolled, as support can take a while to reply, and the period for getting back to you with your grades for assessments has been extended by 2 weeks. IT does feel like UoY are taking in students purely for monetary reasons, but due to the pandemic causing economic issues everywhere, I can also understand the thought process behind it. The best part of the course is the Slack channel for the students to communicate and shared thoughts and concerns. It really allows us to share what is going on with the course and university, and share ideas - within reason - with each other to support other students within the course. There are discord channels we can join to discuss topics and revise for exams or assessments. If it wasn't for the student support, this course would have fallen apart for me a long time ago. I seriously considered leaving the course after my 4th taught module, but the support from here kept me on the course and attempt to complete it. Overall, this course to me is a mixed bag. It is a bag of licorice sweets, which I despise, and chocolate buttons, which I adore. I give this course an average grade at best and I hope they make many improvements going forward to help future students signing on to have a better experience than I did.
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Reviewed: 23 Apr 22
Lecturers are quite responsive and their teaching is helpful
The best aspect is I can access my study material at any place and at any time. The worst aspect is that there is a time limit for the student support to reply.
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