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The best aspect is the location - I am in love with the city of Canterbury, it is the perfect balance of modern facilities and aesthetic sights. The worst aspect is the unfair treatment of lecturers and staff - they do not get high enough wages, leading to frequent strikes.
Lecturers and staff are often on strike, and in many cases the quality of teaching is poor - using old PowerPoint slides. In most cases I feel like I could teach myself all the content and it’s not been worth the money.
Really beautiful place to live with good facilities, only downside is the bus service is quite unreliable and as we are near London things are quite expensive.
Parkwood was the cheapest accommodation for a reason. Hasn’t been renovated in decades, really unhygienic - had multiple ant infestations and the floors were constantly sticky and the walls stained (before we even moved in).
I like how the university care about student’s well-being like the 3 pound meal and they give international students a lot of warm. But the university sport center is a bit too expensive and the gym is not open very long during weekends
Lectures and seminars are quite helpful and all ppl in the department is so nice. Maybe could have more events for phd students in different departments or majors to discuss or network so that could facilitate interdisciplinary research
I think the facility and safety and other services are quite nice but the accommodation fee is a bit too high
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I like the university, really great space, the only thing I dont like is compulsory attendance and the use of attendance codes. Should be with student card
Im happy with this part
I have really enjoyed all the events that the Uni has to offer, as well as made many new friends here. I also enjoy studying on my course. The city centre is also really close and there’s quite a lot of things to do there.
My course is primarily taught in person and I believe there is an adequate amount of course hours and contact time with lecturers.
I am staying in an En suite room with part catered package and I am very content with my accommodation. However, I feel that times that breakfast and dinner is served should be slightly longer, as I struggle to make it on time for breakfast.
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Positive: Student Support and Wellbeing services are excellent, however this is due to individual staff members that go above and beyond for their students in need. Negative: In terms of University societies and the student union, there is a lot of favouritism, which can lead to injustice with safe guarding situations, as well to political at times which excludes certain people.
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