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2022 WUSCA winners
The student support is brilliant and the staff are excellent. The campus itself is lovely and is in a beautiful, rural location but it is a distance from any city. Newport, Shropshire is the nearest town which is very small and has no easy pedestrian route from the campus (40+ minute walk). It's really pretty and great if you want a proper country life but if you're looking for a more cosmopolitan university experience this may not suit. There is also one bar and one pub on campus, nice for a drink in the sun and the union throws some great balls.
The teaching, the lecturers and overall learning experience has been fantastic. It's a shame how much has been online but this is mostly down to covid. Most modules had very well done online content, either in the form of pre-recorded or live teams lectures. Class discussions were a great experience and really added to the modules.
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The university don't make use of all their facilities to students.
More practical workshop work needed
great location
great halls
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The campus has a really good community feel that you don't get anywhere else. The on site farm is easily accessible and is an excellent learning tool with plenty opportunities to get involved. The facilities are all close bye especially in first year when you live on campus.
A good level of in class/teaching time with lecturers all being happy to help. Having the first year to get an overview of all of the agricultural course helps bring everyone to the same level of knowledge and sets a good basis to build on or if you choose to specialise.
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student services is amazing when I spoke to Joana de silva she was so lovely and helpful however I spoke to a different member of staff one evening when I felt extremely home sick and she told me that its fine if I want to drop out she's expecting 50 students to drop out by Christmas, this piece of information was very unhelpful and more upsetting. I also contacted my residence officer out of course because I had a temp of 40c and my mum was worried about me taking convulsions as this is something my family struggles with. she was extremely unhelpful and told me I had no other symptoms of covid so it wasn't that which seemed to be her main worries. on behalf of the harsh marking on students union they do run very good opportunities for students however I feel like to focus of the students within the students union has become irrelevant to the university. The main factor has been with the LGBTQ community which I fully respect and support as its associated with mental health however there was no consideration on supporting februdairy or other agricultural topics on the farming industry which the university specialises in. On a more positive note I love the rural location of the university and the facilities are amazing. including the opportunity we as students get to interact in farm skills sessions. Coming to uni from NI, the ability to go out in the evening and farm which I would have done at home has been available to me through farm skills sessions.
teachers are amazing especially my course tutor Emma White. Our mental health are our upmost important she is always there to lose to our problems and recommend advice. She also allows us to walk her dog which is so thoughtful and incredibly important for improving students mental health.
part time jobs in Newport is very poor. Upon applying for a job I got greatly discriminated against due to employer calling me very small when I went for an interview. I found it extremely hard to find a part time job in my first year. Thanks to the university a group of other students and I where given the opportunity to get a part time job on the farm with excellent pay. The safety at university is very good however in the town of Newport this is very poor. Harper is aware of this and has warned all students not to be walking to road from harper to Newport and has provided shuttle buses and larger busses for nights out to avoid students walking. There have also been incidents in the past of stabbing in Newport unrelated to harper but the atmosphere can be very intense when out in town we must stay in groups and 'not look at anyone wrong'.
some problems have occurred with poor cleaning which I have reported and this has been dealt with immediately. wifi can be 1/2 bars in my halls which can be quite poor when FaceTiming family at home. aOverall I feel very secure in my halls however there are time I do feel a little insecure by being on ground floor but this is mainly due to flatmates letting strangers in.
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The support that the staff offer the students is outstanding. More clubs and societies to include more people
The course content is very varied, which is an advantage as it keeps the students career options open for the future. We study 8 modules and have a lecture and tutorial each week for each module. Lectures have all been online due to COVID-19, but eveyrthing is back in person now. Getting results from assignments can take some time.
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Harper Adams University, some may never have heard of when you tell them that is where study. The countryside is somewhere where I have always belonged and to get a university atmosphere in that kind of location is something that i was looking for. 3 years later and I'm enjoying my time even more. The smaller year group means you make even more friends and thus amazing memories. The hands on experience you receive from the university and placement year you take in the middle will shape you into a even more appealing candidate for jobs in the wider world after university. Something which will take lots of stress off my shoulders when the time comes.
The lectures are all very informative, mixture of in person and online due to covid. But all been beneficial to my development. Great facilities, soil hall and great place for crop walks.
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Harper Adams University became my firm choice from the moment they interviewed me. I was accepted into another four universities, including the University of Liverpool and Lincoln University. Still, despite them also being great institutions, they did not make me feel at home, which HAU did just from the interview. Most of the students here come from a farming or agricultural background, making it very easy to get to know each other. Furthermore, the university is located in a rural area but close enough to the city as Newport is just 10 minutes away and Telford is 20 minutes away. I am an international student from Spain, and since day one, I have felt at home. Its well-being and student support team really helped me get through homesickness during the first week, and they were willing to help me in any other possible way. They found a postgraduate student from Colombia with who I could speak in Spanish, and she showed me around the university before starting week 1. What makes Harper Adams a great place to study is, in my opinion, its organisation of the year and its facilities. The year is divided into weeks which was new for me. Each week we would have one lecture, one practical and one tutorial. Until Christmas, we had online lectures due to covid regulations, but afterwards, we started with in-person lectures in the three different lecture theatres the university counts with. The online lectures were pre-recorded lectures that we could find in the learning hub. Having the class recorded was such an excellent tool for students to revise that they continued to record the face to face lectures so that in the future, we could use them to revise or if you could not attend because of isolation, you still had the chance to take notes from it and not miss anything important. The tutorials were in groups of up to 20 people, and they were like a brief introduction of what we were going to do on the practical. Practicals would usually occur either on the farm or in the labs. Since I am a visual learner, having a practical each week was really helpful as I had the chance to put into practice what we had learned at the lecture. Life on campus is also a strength of HAU. The Student Union is always planning different events and parts at the Welly Inn and the first week was full of activities such as bingo night, ABBA night, UV night and many more. During these activities, I had the chance to meet new people from all of the courses and different countries. The halls as well are magnificent. I am staying in Darwin A, which is self-catered, and the rooms are en-suite, but it has four more different types: self-catered shared, catered en-suite, catered shared and catered standard. The campus also has a feed store with all the basics, and in case of emergency, it is beneficial, a cafe place where you can get some work done or hang out with your friends and a restaurant. To sum up, Harper Adams University has checked all of my boxes as well as my parent's boxes without a doubt, and I would definitely recommend studying here.
My course is BSc Hons Veterinary Bioscience which involves all of the lab work and investigation that the veterinary field requires. In year one, we had eight modules: Large Animal Management, Companion Animal Management, Principles of Animal Health, Fundamentals of Physiology, which we only had for the first eleven weeks, Applied Anatomy and Physiology, which we started after Christmas, Laboratory Techniques, Biological Molecules and Genetics and Academic Skills Development. Large animal management was divided into the different animals we were going to study. For the first four weeks, we focused on dairy production systems; from week 5 to week 7, we had a look into the poultry production systems; the next three weeks, it was the turn of equine management, after Christmas, sheep production systems were the topic until week 15, week 16 we had a lecture on-farm use of veterinary medicines, and before April's break we got 3 weeks of beef production systems and another three weeks of pig production systems. Most of the tutorials and practicals for this module were done on the farm. Companion animal management was a bit different. Every two Mondays, we would have a practical down at the companion animal house where we were assigned an animal that we had to clean and feed, and the week in between, we would have a tutorial. For the first term, principals of animal health were mostly online lectures about parasitology, with just a few practicals. After Christmas, we started with microbiology which led us to be in the labs more often. Fundamentals of physiology and Applied anatomy and physiology were taught by a lecture and a practical each week where we got to do many dissections. Its content was mainly about the animal's systems, such as respiratory systems, and how the body works. Laboratory techniques also had a lecture and a practical each week, generally of 2 hours, where we got to learn different methods and prove those methods with experiments. Two of those experiments, in particular, were very important because we then had to do a lab report based on them worth 45% of our mark each. Biological molecules and genetics I would say it was just a revision of A-levels biology and chemistry since some of the students in the course did not do A-levels to help them keep up with the rest of their classmates. Academic skills development is a practical module where they would explain how to do an essay, a report, a poster, a presentation, reference correctly or search the information at a reliable source. Many took would think that this module is not as important as the others, but I would say that it is as important if not more than the rest of them because without knowing how to do each of the previous things mentioned correctly, your mark will not show all of your efforts. One thing I would say they could improve is the timetable. This year we had some issues with our schedules because the one on our phones said a different thing from the one on our laptops, and since each week our timetable changes, you just couldn't go to the lecture you had that day last week at that time. Normally we would have around 5 to 12 classes each week.
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Worst Aspect is where it is. For the agricultural side of the university it is good, however for me who isn’t in agri course, we are basically in the middle of nowhere, and I have to get people to drive me to where I need to go. Obviously I know this cannot change but I’ll write it anyway. The best part is the student union. They have been so helpful in everything I’ve needed help in and been super supportive and understanding!
Harper being a gold standard university for Veterinary Nursing opens many doors for us in the veterinary profession which is extremely helpful for the future! The tutor contact so far has been okay, however due to COVID, a lot of the course has been behind screens and it’s more complicated to speak to them, however now the restrictions are off, I cannot wait to see them and interact more
It’s great! Not much else to say about it
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Very clean and friendly campus, can be quite lonely
Great placement program
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Great community and lovely location in the countryside, making the transition from home to living away much easier
Blended learning has opened up flexible working patterns which made difficult times much easier.
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