1,529 Buckinghamshire New University reviews

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Great support from the lecture and everyone at the uni! Very welcoming

Always clean, amazing facilities for student to use, tidy shared spaces and great accessibility

The uni is very good with support lots of services you can use when you like!

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There is support for airline assessments however this is immediately available after course completion which is not appropriate as commercial flight training is still expected to be completed after graduation meaning a substantial amount of time will have passed since you completed the mock assessments and the real assessment.

There is a shortage of knowledgeable lecturers. The university is reliant on associate lecturers who are previous graduates for delivering modules.

The Gateway building is the most valuable asset to the university. The library and computer labs have proven very useful for self study.

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Most of the classes were taught online with the option of attending lectures in person but only with masks.

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There weren't any times besides bank holidays when the facilities weren't open. All of the university was clean and spacious.

University helps as much as it can to all students. It also gives opportunities to many of them.

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Opportunities are advertised and spoken about within the course and university itself

Our course is mostly in person which is essential for dance and we can use the studios which is great. Get 6 hours of practical a week and more lectures and plenty of opportunities for tutorials and help if necessary

Small university so everything’s clean and up to date and there’s enough facilities for everyone on my course and always easy to hire studios which is good

Great as there’s support for everything which is easy to get and accessible for all. Very well promoted too

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As aviation is an industry which is either successful or have periods of uncertainty like right now, it is important to keep employability skills up to scratch. The staff organise practise interviews for pilots, as well as aptitude tests and group exercises which help to bolster the core competencies needed to be hired as an airline pilot. There was also a programme produced with guest speakers, and sessions to help graduates succeed at assessment centres when it came to recruitment. The aviation society also organises events with guest speakers and trips to airports and other locations.

As of May 2021, the course has a mixture of blended learning as restrictions have eased to allow it to do so. One day is spent online doing online seminars, and the second day is spent at the university doing face to face seminars. The lectures are pre-recorded online to be watched. From September, the university hopes to be fully face to face, providing restrictions allow it. Pre-Covid, there were two whole days at the university. One day was for lectures which were one hour each. The next day was for seminars, which were two hours each. As this is a very unique course, it is important to understand the structure and how the teaching works and what contact you have. During the first year, the majority of your time is at the university studying airline and airport management modules. Level 4 modules are taught in the first semester, Level 5 modules are taught in the second semester. Contact with tutors is excellent - they will give out their personal number and email should there be any urgent contact. You also have a weekly session with your course leader and this is a great time to arise any concerns you have about the course and to talk about the flying and training with how it is going. While also studying the modules, you will also be training for your Private Pilot License, if you haven't already got it. You will do this in your own time, with credit being awarded upon completion. Flight instructors are always friendly and always want you to succeed, along with the examiners. Make sure you do your research about which flight school you want to do your PPL training with, however. The second year of the course is at your chosen ATO to do your ATPL groundschool, and sit the 13 ATPL exams in order to be awarded the credits for second year, and progress your flying training. The theoretical knowledge instructors are, again, really friendly and approachable. They want you to do well so long as you put the effort in as they are putting the same amount of effort teaching you. It isn't a jolly day out. Your course leader will always contact you to check in with you, and will sometimes visit the flight school to meet you personally. The third and final year is back on the university campus, doing your final modules and final project. You will have a supervisor with the opportunity for a weekly meeting. You can always contact your course leader if there any concerns as well. It is important to understand that for a course like this, you will always receive 100% support. I put 4 stars primarily due to the fact that Covid has been around, and my experience has been a bit sketchy due to training and timetable changes.

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The facilities are great, and it is always very clean. For aviation students, there is a flight simulator that can be used which is an FNPTII simulator designed to replicate a Cessna 172. You can only use this if you have a Private Pilot License and had an induction, but once done you can book it out whenever it is available and not in use. Aviation students also use a scenario room with a tabletop of an airport diagram with terminal and plane handheld models. This can be used to generate scenarios in which students have to present findings and solutions to an issue such as a terrorist attack, emergency landing, and any threats that could occur. It is locked, and only used for sessions. The library is amazing, especially the private study rooms suitable for group projects or wanting to study alone.

While I have never used these facilities, other students have used them and praised them. The staff are always approachable.

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They have career fairs and email regarding cv support which is good.

blended learning with placement in medical institutions

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All equipment is readily bookable and available.

They email daily regarding support available.

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From September 2020 to December 2020 it was blended learning but from January 2021 to May 2021 it was all online.

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