good lectures, most lecturers care about their students if you can be bothered to work. Same with support from careers etc, good if you put the work in. University not good at disability matters, so in our course we have had to move tables for a wheelchair user to be able to get into the room. Lots of emphasis on social areas and places to talk, listen to music, etc, very little emphasis on areas to work. You will be considered weird if you submit assessments early, or called a swat for wanting a first. Not much ambition, a pass is good enough, no understanding why anyone would want more

No areas for students to work, it is all social space. Students catching a bus elsewhere to find a place to work

A lot of resources to help with dyslexia. Mental health services also seem pretty good.

Aimed at the school leaver who wants to get drunK. Student bars play music so loudly that it is impossible to talk

Fairly quiet, some areas suitable for students but cheltenham and gloucester are fairly sedate

Some great societies, but many seem to be rather inactive. Join loads to find some that are active

No attempt to stop students chatting in lectures, or get people to turn up on time. Lectures disrupted by people walking across the front to sit down for the first half hour. Told to work at home, but then the lecturer goes over it as most people don’t do the prereading, result is that the hardest parts are not covered. Groupwork is marked as all members of a group get the same mark, so if you want a good mark you have to do work for other people

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A whole module on employability skills, aimed only at school leavers. No attempt to allow for mature students who have worked for years who have to write essays on how this one mock interview taught them loads

It was a fantastic location with new Business School and improved facilities at their Oxstalls campus. The lecturers are serious experts in specific modules I did for in Accounting and Finance. Are really interesting, challenging and enjoyable to do despite some difficulties. One of few universities to get exemptions Even new professional courses and certificates such as Microsoft certificate, Code Creators (Python) etc. which adds values to my CV, skills and experience. They have a Your Future Plan hub which is great to find internships, placements, graduate roles along with sessions on how to do interviews, CV, cover letters and more. They have a Growth Hub and a student business consultancy where the university are partnered with local companies to give students on hands approach experience whilst at the university. Very impressive they have sports/societies people can join with good social events throughout the year whether formal or informal. But its hard as they come and go all the time due to students busy with their university work or just personal aspects. Really great with day trips such as London or Cardiff even international trips like Vietnam for example years ago. What is difficult is that university lecturers are really hard to get back via email or in person despite an open door policy. To improve, I wish that lecturers could do more to get back to their students with significant problems they have for coursework, exams or general enquiries they have.

The course was taught in class before it became blended learning after COVID struck the UK. I was very lucky to get a placement at the university itself which I appreciate so much to this day. My course hours are 1.5 hours for lectures/seminars every week for a total of 10 weeks. Contact with lecturers are varied as they an open door policy. As I mention before, it can be difficult to see them whether there busy or not face-to-face or via online. What I enjoy is the mathematics/statistics elements in the finance area of my degree including computer programming languages such as Python and R which I considerably enjoyed a lot and hoping to learn and practice more. This was in Financial Markets, Strategic Financial Management. I also enjoyed Forensic Accounting as it looks into more serious matters which I also find interesting as well. The worse aspect of my course was most definitely Management Accounting, despite pure mathematics involved in Level 6 module (Strategic Management Accounting). It was good in my opinion but talking in depth of products and other terminology like manufacturing, costing, factories which is part of the syllabus but I prefer more serious matters I did in other matters. Hopefully this helps.

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