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My university is such a nice place to study. Is a bit away from town but it´s okay. I think some bakeries are missing from campus, but it's not that necessary. We have a store which the prices are not that student friendly and that's why I'm not buying anything from there. The library is big and nice. You can study quiet. We also have another study centre in which you can meet for group projects and stuff.
I love the course I'm in. I have a great relation with my personal tutor. She is very helpful and she cares about our studies and wellbeing as well.
The lift is not working for a week now. We are waiting for someone to fix it, I hope they will do it as soon as possible. The building is new, they build these properties last year, so we are the first residents here. Everything is newish, fresh, nothing bad. It could be better the cleaning program. They collect the trash once a week and we are 10 people which we are using the kitchen so they could come twice week to collect them instead of 1.
BEST - Campus: campus has everything you need all in once place (although campus used to have a bank, pie bus, print shop, career services, IT helpdesk, Nightline, hairdressers - but these have all disappeared. Would be great to have more of these kinda of services/ amenities on campus again, and maybe a chemist). - Online Resources: often can get access to journals/ research papers for free via the University's subscriptions, Moodle used for every module and has the slides, readings, module outlines and assignment info. , listen again is also super handy -Staff: are often really hard-working and approachable WORST - Strike Action: class schedules, assignments have been affected
BEST Contact Hours: Contact hours are reasonable, most lecturers are responsive and well-organised, WORST - Course Expectations/ Balancing: often assigned so much work or readings to do for each module every week and seems almost impossible to do all of it even if you don't work part-time. For example, a good rule of thumb is the number of credits a module is worth is how many hours a week you should spend studying well with 3 modules per term worth 15 credits that equates to 45 hours which does not include the additional full-year modules.
The location as i live locally, but the actual university is not that big compare to Colchester campus. Staff are nice, but the facilities could do more and better. Especially a lot of different students in that campus, they could expand more so Student's can have their own department where there's library, lounge/cafe area to relax.
Too much lecture days. One subject will do once per week not twice in a week.
There's enough resources for research and essays.The lectures are easy to understand.
Both online and in-class were interesting.
Sometimes the hall is very cold.
Totally, It’s a fantastic university. There have great study environments and fantastic student support. I could receive many information by email every week to give me more information about activities. Therefore I could make my student life easier and have more experiences. The stuffs and teachers who working here are kindly to us. The points need to be improve is about the strike. The strike have happened in this year is takes our lots of time .
Some teacher here is not very nice. I have meet a teacher who have no patience
There are good facilities for us to study and use.
Its got a nice library
Its good
The best experiences are the sports teams here that are warming and fun as well as the workload here that isn’t too much. the worse aspects would be the location.
My courses are taught on campus, lectures are up to 2 hours at a time and seminars can range from 1-3 hours. Lectures are always answering emails if you have questions.
What I like most is the facilities and the location that is close to my classes. I don’t like how crimes sometimes occur here but it’s still pretty safe.
According to me which things i felt in India regarding my university same i feel at there. So, thank you university of exxex.
Teaching way is very good.
I love university location because it is splaced on hill areas and view is clearly.
It is very big like theatre hall. Mostly comfortable seats are there.
Best - Area Teaching facility Worst- parking
Best- range of lecturers Worst- Exams in a short space of time
Covid meant no one was around
Great range of bars, restaurants, cafes! I love the food markets that are there constantly; as well as the markets that is there on Thursday. The library is especially great, it’s a great place to focus and engage in studies. It’s 24/7 which is also great for people who work during days or people who live on campus.
The common room for my department is great; I love going to sit there in between lectures and seminars when you want a break from studying. The course hours are good and bearable. I do wish that the university looked at where the students are living… most people in my course are living off campus and travelling. However we have lots of 9 am lectures and massive breaks. This makes it a lot harder to go in.