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4.03.93.3718 Student reviews
Sort:Latest reviewsGenerally I enjoy the university and the facilities. The canteen and areas for refreshments are good and easily accessed. My only negative feed back would be student parking and it being more available to all students.
All fine
Best experience is the placements learning on the job. Worst is the work life balance - struggling to balance assignments and work life. Communication between lecturers and students also external speakers can be improved.
Food is great, Lecturers are lovely, Student support is lacking hardly any appointments Student life don’t get much of it due to the course requirements and business Student union don’t use it
Lack of support from lecturers , poor email response times
45-54 years
First gen student
Great facility everything brand new Engaging and helpful staff At school of podiatry we are a bit isolated. No digital screen therefore no information about initiatives on campus. The vice chancellor nor any other senior university staff have ever visited or met podiatry students. Podiatry students never hear about special talks at Waterside or if we do it is On the day or too late.
Worst university. I don’t advice anyone to come here, any other universities you got accepted to, pick them instead, you’ll thank me later.
This university has been the worst thing that has ever happened to me. On the ACTING course, you don’t really act. The most acting you get to do, is pretending to be an animal. The lecturers can’t stand the students, won’t teach us, have attitudes constantly. Now we’re being told that we might not be in the building in the coming year. First year was online with Covid, after telling us that we won’t be online and not letting us defer. Trying to do voice classes and ballet in a hallway you can’t extend your arms in in accommodation was an experience I wouldn’t wish on anyone. It’s actually a dangerous place to be, the course has had a lot come out in the past year and it’s made everyone aware how unsafe it is. This uni is horrible. DO NOT COME HERE.
The staff on my course are amazing and so supportive
18-24 years
First gen student
The new building and community is good but still feels very segregated, hard to meet people unless you’re with them in lessons. Not many big social areas IDPCTBR2 - see stabbing comment below
This year has been very stressful for myself, going online has been interrupted by a cyber hack meaning we had zero access to lectures, recorded lectures and also access through logins on other sites for journals etc. This was particularly stressful with an essay that was due in that same week and only been given a 3 day extension which then had to be further extended as we still had no access. It has also been a difficult time with getting placement hours, which there is an essay based on our learning from these hours which seems ridiculous given that personally I have only collected 5/120 hours which have all been online. Not only that, with the cyber hack one of my assessments has been moved back which has meant I have had to go through mitigating circumstances to get this changed as it falls over a date I am getting surgery - then when trying to send in the form the email on the form did not work. I understand that this is a difficult time for everyone but there has been very little support for university students, especially given that one of the assessments is based on lab work and I haven't been in the lab all year, and the videos given for how the lab is carried out has either cut short or the audio is terrible meaning I haven't learnt a thing in that particular module. This is the same module that thinks a kuracloud which is essentially on online quiz followed by an hour of consolidating of learning online lecture is substantial, given that usually a face to face lecture is around 2 hours.
Bad experience. Treated unfairly
The university of Northampton will not care about your well-being.
some bits i enjoy, some bit i hate
The tutors are so kind and patients
Good, could be improved but generally happy
Good but some areas such as facilities need improving
OK
4.3
All good
All good