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4.03.83.812 Student reviews
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Don't Bother.
It was so bad I had to drop out from 3rd year. Be very careful if you chose to study there. This university have extremely bad reputation for a reason.
No practical experience
The buildings are nice but they miss some indications to find our way. Plus, Paisley is not always very accessible so it's difficult to enjoy student life there.
it was amazing experience at glos as its my learning final stage. the staff is very cooperative and supportive.
18-24 years
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Honestly, I am beyond dissapointed with the quality of my course. Do not go to UWS (Lanarkshire) unless you have no other options. First off, class timetables won't be released until the week before you are due to attend the classes. It is currently the 23rd of March, I need to be in class on the 4th of April and still have no idea what days, what times (the fact timetables are released late is the one consistent thing at UWS). They also will not tell you about placements until again a week or two in advance, and considering these placements are full time hours (40-48hrs a week), it is next to impossible to schedule childcare, work schedules, anything within the timeframe between when you get your placement details to when you are physically on placement. When my course begun, they also didnt release my coursework to me until 4-5 weeks AFTER the course had physically begun, so I had no access to any of the work I was suppossed to be doing until over a month into the course. My university also forgot to ensure I was health checked when the pandemic hit, sent me out on placement, realised that wasn't allowed, pulled me out of placement, then because of COVID I couldn't get a health check appointment until halfway through the academic year, at which point I was so behind on placement I had to do a repeat year. Every step of the way I have tried to raise complaints with the university about how unacceptable this all is, and every step of the way they refuse to acknowledge any responsability for these issues. You, as the student, are made to feel all these setbacks are somehow your fault. I have had nothing but negative experiences at this university and I cannot say it enough: DO NOT GO HERE.
18-24 years
First gen student
massive let down, really poor communication and the student satisfaction for me and my friends has not been good at all, the uni do not communicate with you or really guide you when u start so you need to figure it out yourself, really wouldn’t recommend here
The friends you make at uni is the only good part of uws. The sports teams are almost like family and are amazing to be around. Overall I think I wasted my years of education at uws and wanted to transfer sooner but I was too scared. The university is in huge amounts of debt and that reflects into every other aspect of the uni. Almost everything is underfunded, from course to staff.
Gym is too far. Shouldn't have to pay for books, the halls far, half an hour
4.1
Awesome environment and helpful community
Best content for some modules