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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: 19 Apr 22
Supportive uni that is exceptional in supporting additional needs and mental health concerns. Worst aspect is range of quality up to date paper books
Blended learning is good and being able to rewatch lectures is really helpful
great town to study, work and play in. lots to see and do for free!
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Reviewed: 19 Apr 22
Very helpful
Really good and very organised
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Reviewed: 19 Apr 22
I would give minus five stars to this University. I was warned about classism, professional neglect, and lack of support, but I didn't listen. How could this University be improved? A complete overhaul of its teaching method, autonomous learning is another phrase for professional neglect. I am going elsewhere for post-grad, and I wish I never came to this University. Edinburgh does not provide what it says it does. The city of Edinburgh is not that great (sorry to spoil the illusion), and come to think about it, if a University advertises the city as its main attraction, what does that say about the University? Stay well clear of this University.
For anyone wanting to study philosophy here, this University is analytically focused with little to no interest in Continental philosophy. The tutors range from good to useless. Seminars/Tutorials also range from decent to useless. Student engagement is often low, and if you enjoy a module, you're more likely to talk to the plants than a fellow student. Online learning was an unmitigated disaster, making student engagement decrease. Over-reliance on discussion boards, which are hardly/never used.
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Reviewed: 19 Apr 22
This is not a good place to study! The courses could be named one thing like performance but in reality the professor is "teaching" abstract music and that's just one example of many others. I also have not been taught a single thing can help me with my career. I also find that the website that baits you into thinking this university is amazing is feeding you lies. Such as "tailoring the course to me" there has never been a moment where a professor has asked for our input to better the course. I also find that the entire staff in this uni really don't help you ever, it feels like they are all lazy and would rather push off to someone else to deal with you. As well as you can speak to four different people about the same subject and get four completely different answers. The hub, the uni's student uni, is a prime example of how uniformed everyone is. On multiple occasions I have has problems with enrollment and accommodation and every person I spoke to never had an answer for me and if they did the information they gave me was wrong. This uni is lacking some much needed tlc all around.
My course started in 2020 so everything started online and then they slowly started to transition into blended to now mostly being in person. The only problem with this is that most of the time only four students show up to the lectures making it so pointless to go because you're not taught anything when half of the class is missing.
The location of the halls is pretty stellar right on a dlr line that can put you right in zone 1 but that's the only thing that's worth raving over. All of the staff that help you are also fellow students so they don't really seem to care about anything in terms of the room and helping with your problem if you do have to contact them unless its about damage. On multiple occasions I have emailed the residential life team here at UEL and have got zero emails or follow through. Rent between the different types of rooms is weirdly close together. I have an upgraded room with only four people in my flat and only pay 80 pounds more per month than my friend with a room half the size and another person in their flat. The maintenance team and the way they handle anything is just bad. My flats freezer has defrosted three times with the food inside it going bad three time and the team did nothing but put a bandaid fix on it until they absolutely had to replace the freezer as well as we never saw a reimbursement for the food that was lost.
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Reviewed: 19 Apr 22
The gulf between the way the staff at St. George's describe themselves and their actual behaviour is enormous. They put on a good show when you come for your tour, they come across really caring and enthusiastic, but as soon as you're on the course that all gets dropped. If you try and talk to some of the staff when you're on the course you won't get an answer, same as with the rest of them. The impression I've gotten since day one is that the staff see students as an unpleasant chore to be avoided wherever possible. None of the lecturers will know your name unless you're one of the golden boys and girls who they show extreme favouritism to. And those boys and girls fit into a very narrow cultural bracket, the same one that the lecturers fit into funnily enough. Most of the lecturers commute in from hours away and they're incredibly snobby about Tooting. The worrying thing is that part of healthcare or teaching is meeting your patients or students where they live and being understanding about their circumstances and culture, and these lecturers don't do that. They mock the accent, they make all kinds of snidey remarks, it's really unpleasant. Tooting is not a bad place at all, the people are nice enough and you're not actually in danger lol. Bottom line is that St. George's is fine if you never have any issues, if you do then you're on your own. They do not listen to feedback and nothing ever changes.
They're still struggling a lot with online content. Most lectures are still completely uninteractive, and the ones that are 'interactive' don't get any interaction at all. Attendance during online lectures was a joke, usually it was below half. I did the course during COVID so your experience may differ though. The tutors can be alright, it's the one time you actually get to speak to anyone at the uni. Usually it's just speaking though and they can't do anything practical to help you. Sometimes a conversation is all you need, but if you need something more then you're out of luck.
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Reviewed: 18 Apr 22
most social and balls, a bigger union and more library’s
not enough on campus, teachers off sick a lot, some lecturers really don’t stick to the content. i like some of the modules but it depends what teacher you get
loved the location and the room was nice and modern with an en suite, downside is that it’s expensive per week compared to alot of places
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Reviewed: 18 Apr 22
Great resources for learning great libary great student life
Great choice of topics to explore good support regarding any queries
Great location great rooms but expensive
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Reviewed: 18 Apr 22
With this being my first year, my experience of it so far have been great, despite the hole Covid and Omicron, the University have kept me and others upto date on the policy's with email and and posters throughout campus. Tutor's are massively helpful and always there even if not on campus, the University has there email address and discord groups as well as social media sites as I am based in the LSA building its close to the library and STU.
I'd have to say that it's not quite what I had expected in regards to assignments, ie, I was expecting them to be super difficult and not very understanding but they have been clear and straight to the point of what you need to do and there's always the option to do more to earn more points if you put in the effort, I think also having the reading weeks has helped massively as this is time to either take time for yourself or asking for 1 to 1 with your lecturer.
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Reviewed: 18 Apr 22
Glasgow is a great uni overall, the location, and the teaching staff are all so lovely and helpful and willing to put in extra effort above and beyond for their subject. The only thing I wish was different is the available study spaces. I live at home, away from campus so on days I have classes I want to work on assignments and essays on campus, to cut down on travelling times, but finding somewhere to work is really difficult every single time. Furthermore, the new JMS building is great and has extra study spaces, but there's a lot of wasted space in it, and a lack of plug points on level 1.
The English Language department are all saints. That is why I did my dissertation in English because I knew the staff were so committed and so helpful and it would make the process much easier. Everyone is really organised, quick to reply to emails, and overall lovely. Two of our lecturer's are great, their courses are interesting and engaging and the content is delivered in a way that makes me feel like I understand it first time. Another lecturer's is also excellent, really puts huge amounts of effort into the lectures and content and provides extra resources too. I also like how EngLang lay out their moodles, really easy to find everything. Philosophy is a little touch and go. Some of the staff are gems and absolute saints and really go above and beyond in their teaching and it shows. They are by far the best-loved teaching staff. Their lectures are interesting, engaging, and easy to understand and assignments are clear and easy to get feedback on. Some other philosophy lecturers are a little harder to get hold of and don't reply to emails for days at a time which can be a little stressful if you need to know something for an upcoming deadline. I found the online learning in 2021 really really tough and it was hard to stay motivated, yet despite this the teaching style of lecturers played a huge part. Live lectures on Zoom were much more engaging and easy to stay motivated with than recorded lectures.
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Reviewed: 18 Apr 22
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Great student life
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