Lisa Greaves

Review of NCN Nottingham

When I first started my new term at Nottingham col...

When I first started my new term at Nottingham college I was so excited. I was so over the moon to finally get back on my feet after having a very difficult time at school and coming out with poor grades and to finally get away from bullying.
My first couple of weeks where excellent I really settled in and felt like I had made the right choice but sadly this was all let down. I came in to every lesson and gave my all. I thought positively and got on with the work needed.
But as soon as our assignments where given the cracks started to show, we had been taught very little on our subject and most of the units where very rushed. I asked for help with the understanding of my assignments but was denied this and told I didn t have anything wrong with me in order for me to have 1 to 1 learning support. I also noticed that many of our assignments where late constantly and dates where mixed up which added confusion plus we where not taught certain things which showed In the assignments.
what also didn t help is most of the staff where completely un interested in explaining this and helping students who where struggling, many of the ones struggling where left on the own even though many asked if things could be explained better. Which to my teachers response was to research it yourself, unfortunately this wasn t just one teacher many other had the same attitude of uncaringness towards teaching. Many staff members do not like to take responsibility for there mistakes and pass the blame on to the students.
When our teacher complained to the course management about students work many of the issues was actually the teachers fault: Late marking, late assignments and missing work. Many students began to quickly fall behind due to poor teaching standards and no 1 to 1 support or clear explaining.
My teacher blamed it on laziness and said that we never handed in assignments on time as a class. A lot of the time college teachers skipped lessons or where late regularly or busy chatting to staff outside for half the lesson. Many students where very out of hand and agressive which the college teachers in courage and found funny. I had to report an incident to a course manager due to an other student being racist towards, which angrily was brushed under the carpet and ignored by management.
I will not be attending again what a let down I blame my failing grades on this college thanks for failing to get me onto a higher course!