Callum Sweeting

Review of Holmesglen

I was an International student who's first langua...

I was an International student who's first language is English because I am English. I had zero information or help from the international department the entire year I was there and every time I had a query for anything I was told I had to do it through the International department. My complaints grew so much that I eventually got seen to by senior administrators instead.
I was doing an outdoor education course which was very fun but the staff were very poor. Reading from power points, unable to answer questions and unwilling to find the answers or help you find the answers. As a mature student I was spoken down to on a regular basis and still am as I'm waiting for my qualification.
Due to personal reasons at home I fell into a state of depression and was met with total ignorance to my situation or anything like it. I was subsequently ostracized by even my teachers not just students and it facilitated me spiraling further into depression. I've raised these concerns with people since having meetings about not being allowed to continue with my course. The college have since helped me gain my qualification (pending) but have done nothing in the way of actually helping me like they told everyone at the start of the year they were the to do.
This is a terrible institution that gave me little in the way of education and has genuinely set me back months by making me wait 3 months for a reply to emails about finishing my course, during which I had to go to regular counselling sessions to talk about the genuine anguish I was going through with my mental state. I'm still having to exchange emails to correct both my and their mistakes but have to speak to a department head as I again had to wait weeks and weeks for replies to my emails. It has now been 6 months since I left and have received a total of 12 emails in reply to the 74 I have sent, mostly asking for a reply to my previous ones.
DO NOT GO HERE UNLESS YOU HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE....for outdoor education. Although I've had great issues with international and administration departments as well.

I'm glad to say being away from this place I no longer feel like a second class human being.