Nottingham Trent University Avis 19

I was a student and also employed by Nottingham Trent University (NTU). It has come a long way since it's being granted university status. My base was the city campus and the course was a MA TESOL, designed primarily for overseas students, a heavy reliance on Chat GPT and the assessment rubric designed to give the overseas students the best chance to pass the course. As a home student the course offered very little in terms of career advancement. The tutors did not factor the requirements of home students and often this meant being side-lined and bored. The quality of the tutorials was questionable, often we were presented with poorly planned, outdated materials, spelling and punctuation errors, poor time-management, lack of any real teaching experience with tutors reading straight from the slides. There was little correlation between the guidance given in class including examples of high graded past papers that were closely followed and the final comments. If I had my time again I would not opt for this course or university. There are far better options out there, particularly for teachers who seek advancement in their teaching careers. I would opt for a course that offers either QTS or QTLS, rather than to waste my time paying for and completing a Masters TESOL (postgraduate) and then having to complete an level 5 (undergraduate) course (with 100 hours of observed teaching) in order to the apply for a QTLS or QTS. The MA TESOL at NTU is ideal for overseas students, home students are better off completing at PGCE or similar.

Another job application, another "went with candidates more closely matched" rejection, literally impossible in this case and a recurring theme with recruitment. Hiring not done on merit.

After studying for a post graduate 18 month course. After 12 there have asked me to reenrol. After ding this it states I’ve been removed from the course (6 months left) as my employer hasn’t paid. They have paid. But they are the most difficult university I have ever come across to help me. I have had no access for 5 days and deadlines. The process of complaining it ridiculous and takes hours/days to get a response. All they state is they want there money!! They were given it September 2024 as one payment and now I have to prove the payment and go through all finance channels at my time and effort through my employer.

This is a lovely uni in a great location . I visited today with my daughters. The buildings are bright and atmospheric and the staff is very helpful and engaged. I am a wheelchair user and one of the lifts was not working. This issue was straight away sorted. It is a warm, welcoming place.

As indicated by all the student reviews here this is a poorly run, self-serving institution. This was made apparent as a job applicant, when feedback revealed that hiring criteria was made up on the spot, completely unrelated to the details in the job application and outside of the job application process listed on ntu's website.

The worst University experience as an international student of BSc adult nursing!!! Everything is very delayed and improper communications at every time. Basically I'm feeling like I wasted all my money and 2+ years. My career is been downgraded.
They terminated many international students after collecting the fees. They act like they don't even care. Different department says different things. They don't even know the right thing and passes the wrong informations to students. So basically I lost my one year now. When I asked for my transcript, they told me that they can't give me a transcript until Sept (So that I should be joining NTU as well as I got no any other options and that can collect my fees. And the fees is too high when compared to other uk universities). Also they refer person to person when we need any help, and the funniest part is nobody knows what to do.
There's so many negative reviews for NTU and I can confirm that everything is correct. I WILL NEVER RECOMMEND NTU TO AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ❌💯.
I'm sorry for the long essay but I'm sure many students will be benefited from this 💯.

Awful university. I studied my masters here after attending Uon for my undergrad. They standard of teaching was appalling, with no support for the students. They care more about the money than the teaching with some lectures being incredibly sexist and projected views. The course lead, works part time so completely inaccessible on her days off. Do not go here if you would like to get the most out of your education

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS please stay away. I did my masters from here, my experience was awful. Then I referred my friends, and now they are facing same difficulties. The only thing NTU cares about is your money after that you are liability to them. They treat you like 3rd class citizens. It’s the worst place to spend your time and money. you will be referred to from one person to another when you need help. If you can’t pay your fee at one go don't even think of coming here.

The worst university ever for students from other countries. If you are an international student, you should never attend this university. When it comes to international students, the staff is extremely impolite and doesn't seem to hear you out. They never want to offer assistance to you.

Awful to get hold of if something goes wrong. Have spent hours today sat on hold to finance, no-one available to my daughter whonis trying to get hold of someone face to face. Still sat on hold!!

Many lecturers have policies against answering emails, making it extremely difficult for support. Free mental health services promised to organise a follow up with me and never did. Many classes are comprised of the lecturer sitting in the corner silent whilst you do your own work. If you ask the lecturer a question they should know the answer to they tell you to figure it out yourself. Students and lecturers alike generally appear to hate learning and teaching. Overall, NTU is a great place for socialising but awful at actual academics

As another previous review states, if you experience bullying or discrimination at this university, NTU will side with the perpetrator instead of supporting you. They don’t care about people, they only care about profits and rankings.

Review based on help to student.
They allow students to not only smoke inside flats but to smoke class B drugs. Have been informed, security did nothing. Therefore making non smoking student in flats life a misery. Won't move, won't break contract and allow her to move elsewhere. No duty of care, in fact almost going out of way to ignore it.

Some accomodations, like Hampden, are so old with plumbing problems, water taste is so bad and has particles in it (they had a problem with bacteria in the water a few years ago), carpets are like 10 years old and smelly and you have only one wifi router for four rooms.
Now onto the academic part.
Some lecturers have literally no idea of what they're teaching, grading system is obsolete, lecturers exit Teams meeting 30 minutes or 1 hour early (on a regular basis), lecturers contradict the assignment briefs and other lecturers (you never know who to believe and if following the brief is the right thing to do), employabiltiy team has no clue of what's happening in the job market + they provide no support and no real help (who cares about CV and LinkedIn support?!).
Lastly, for some degrees they include useless modules for no reason, for example Transformation Leadership Development for a business course. What the hell? And it also counts towards your overall grade.
I wasted my money.

The university has no concept of diversity and fairness. with no gender or racial diversity.

In a recent bullying alligation made by a student, the university joined the bully and reran the race debate during a meeting over the investigation.

The leadership were absent hiding behind process. Be warned - if you consider this university, and something goes wrong, they will not take action.

I think the curates egg review was made to look like me, as my feedback for a piece of work was exactly that. I didn't write that, Unless someone else got the same feedback, which has happened in some cases.

The Course has become far to subjective in key modules, with cases where one lecturer praising you before it's marked and the lecturer marking it having the opposite opinion. Which is fine as long as the feedback is constructive criticism, not just negative. More focus is needed on specifications as we are trainee technologists of architecture.

Modules such as Research and Professionalism and Employment were great, useful skills such as interview training and Module leader for Research deffo knows his stuff when it comes to research.

May I add, every student ever, will and has had a different experience at university and may come across similar problems or they may not. So not every review is applicable to everyone, but neither are they wrong in their own experience. You won't know until you try it!

The course and the team are superb. The course is structured to simulate the working environment, often with different modules feeding into the ‘Studio module’ where you will develop projects from conception through to technical resolution.
Unlike Architectural Technology at other institutes, this programme provides a good overview of all design stages, but with a focus on technical resolution. Accredited by CIAT, the course has a good staffing balance and takes a kaizen approach to the programme, constantly trying to improve. Indeed, each final degreeshow is always the best yet, with the show in 2019 being by far the best yet (IMO).
One review here made some derisory comments about the course, which frankly angered me. I studied this course for 4 years and found academic irregularities to be dealt with very severely on this course and across the whole school of ADBE.