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The lectures are experienced practitioners and provide great knowledge and insight into what being in early childhood and education is like.
Positive aspects: The course is really well run, with all of it conducted in person and catch up material is also available online. There are several points of contact with lecturers and are easily accessible in person to talk to. Lecturers are reflective practitioners and always strive to make the course a positive experience. Negative aspects: Lack of staff sometimes negatively impacts on taught hours.
If Professors are supportive you can achieve you goal. In the same way, the professors are really helpful and supportive. This makes it a great place. To my concern, I don't feel anything to be improved. Everything is fine.
The best is that In class teaching, we can ask each and every doubt to the professors and teaching time is too good. The worst is that online, because though professors ask for doubts, we couldn't come up and answer, the main is the concentration is missing. Online classes are not so often only because of some situation.
I study online, which is a great aspect of my course. I was studying when working abroad, which was really beneficial to me. The lecturers are always very accommodating, friendly and knowledgable. Sometimes I feel the online moodle platform is a little cumbersome to navigate, especially when being a distanc learner, it can be hard to navigate and there are lots of notifications etc. hat throw me off when I need to find something I'm actually looking for. I also feel like there aren't as many online resources available as there should be for the course consindering it is offered as a distance learning course and not everyone has access to the roehampton library. There have been plenty of occassions where there is a print version of a book I need in the library but no digital copy.
There is plenty of time to speak to tutors via distance learning and they are always happy to respond to emails. I do think however there is a lack of online resources for children's literature as previously mentioned.
The accommodation facilities have a lot of room for improvement. A lot. The classes are excellent, and the library is A-MA-ZING. The support provided regarding studying and on campus activities is very good. There are dance studios available to use outside of class times, and the unions are diverse and seem quite welcoming.
I love my course, and the classes are very interesting and varied. The teaching staff is always highly qualified, and offering very good insight. There is always room for consultation and everyone is always very responsive and helpful.
The accommodations lack information brochures about things that seem to be obvious , but are not, such as recycling separation, drawers allocation per room in the common spaces, etc. Reports of things that need to be repaired seem to take some time, and I’m not sure about emergency repairs (such as lack of hot water in the showers) being a possibility.
Great facilities, quite a distance and expensive to travel to
Teaching can be good, it really all depends on the tutor but covid made things difficult and there have been many changes, redundancies due to the uni and other affects on the teaching as well as the assessments that have put us at disadvantage.
It was super expensive, we had constant issues with fridges, pipes, huge water leaks and sometimes security. This may have changed and improved in the last few years since I moved out but there are still always things to address.
The student union needs serious improvements
I want much more in class time than what I am currently getting.
Needs to have a better response team to requests about rooms.
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Great location and facilities, a lot of support!
I am happy with my course, a lot of support, and nice classmates!
Grove House is a palace with great surrounding areas, a park, and a lake. It is beautiful and relaxing!
Lovely grounds, great staff. Brilliant library. The technical aspect of the university is appalling. They are taking paper registers in the 21st Century! (this is not the only gripe, but it gives you an idea of how things are)
The tutors are undoubtedly hardworking, but hamstrung by bureaucracy and a luddite approach to technology and progress. For the money we pay we receive scant tutoring, especially during Covid and particularly in the third year of our studies.
I love my professors and the other students I have met at Roehampton. They are doing their very best to make it an incredible experience. However. in the past year, the upper management of the university has cut more than half of our department staff, and the programmes are suffering immensely. Our lecturers are overworked and underpaid, trying to fill in for the vital positions that have been declared "redundant." Most of my lecturers have been on "visiting" contracts for 6-7 years. My programme convener was declared redundant halfway through the term and never replaced. The dance department has really been suffering, and the university has ignored or rejected all attempts made by students and staff to raise our voices. The dance facilities have been without functioning heating, rendering them dangerous, for 9 months, and no plan of action for fixing them has been established.
Incredible lecturers, though losing our main lecturer and programme convener in the middle of the term without warning has made the quality of learning suffer. I wish we had more time per week in lectures, and more classwork assignments.
Facilities are nice and well maintained. Fire alarms are overactive and frequently went off in the middle of the night (like once a night every night)