Cosmicfeline S.
1/5
Absolutely terrible. The support just isn’t there for people with any sort of mental or physical health issues. Me and my friend in the space of a week were moved from our course to an online one instead over half way through the year under the excuse ‘we can’t keep you safe and you will fail the course anyway’ and we were also told that if we were on campus outside designated hours for our maths/English we would be removed from campus and dropped as a student, which if they put the right support in, in the first place it would not have been an issue. Moving on to mental health support, that is even more shocking, from being kicked out of drop in to counselling that never seems to happen, i was told for months I was going to be getting it soon and still yet to be put in counselling, it’s a joke. They do not care about you due to the lack of support from student services it was left up to my progress coach to put in an hour a week for a chat about mental health which should not have fallen on his shoulders but it did anyways but even then it was few and far between, it was supposed to be weekly and it was for about a month but after that it became increasingly difficult to get a chat. I also had members of student services towards the end make is seam like my progress coach did not want to carry on that support for me, upon talking to my progress coach he was still happy to do it. The tutors this year have been overworked and expected to do so much not leaving much of any time for the students in their care. I was a health and social care student last year and did very well and loved the course even though they threw me on it last second, and was promised a place on level 3 but after getting enrolled on to level 3, the last lesson on the first day I was told that I should have never been enrolled in it anyways and they moved me to childcare which I had absolutely no passion for. So for 2 years in a row I have been just chucked on a course and it has been called a day every time. This happens with a lot of other people that were also in my course group as well, all of us being chucked on to a course we have no passion for. When my attendance dropped due to mental and physical health they were not accommodating one bit. They did not want to work with me, I would get in trouble for not attending college even if I had been in hospital the day before but I would also get hell if I attended college the day after I was in hospital. I can not win. It got to a point when I wouldn’t say anything if I had been in hospital and go in anyways because what choice did I have. They had stood me down as a student for a couple days and my grandma and me had both been told I could go back the Friday of that week so obviously I did show up that Friday and within the first 20 minutes of that class I was pulled out and told that I in-fact was not supposed to be in at all and we should have never been told that I could go back on that day. There is no communication from these people and I’m sick of it. When it came to having a meeting for my return, the same meeting where I was told I was only permitted to be on campus for 2 hours a week it took ages to even get through to them to set the meeting date and time up, as when my mum emailed them, they ignored her until the Friday I showed up and said she had emailed but heard nothing back. I can also confirm that the college has made my mental health worse than it has ever been and with that, my physical health issues also got worse. I also used to go to the project you team when I needed support until some of them made me feel like a burden and my friend had overheard one of them saying some pretty horrible things about me, it’s entirely unprofessional and pretty concerning considering the whole point of the project you department is to look after the wellbeing of the students. If you care about your kids wellbeing do not send them here
