Posts Tagged with #The Mountaineer Club
I have just recently finished a 2 year course at the college in Food Technology and management and wouldn’t recommend the college to anyone they say the course is a 3 day course when actually lectures only cover 1 day so you are left waiting around most of the time. When it comes applying to uni you may as well only consider Harper Adams as the actual course is worth no UCAS points!!! The staff in the food department however are very friendly just wished they hadn’t of lied when going to the college saying it was equivalent to 3 A levels. So basically if you want to waste 2 years on a Food course that gets you hardly anywhere I wouldn’t recommend the course or department as a whole!!
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1. The teachers are either extremely patronising or downright horrible. I had one of them shout at me for correcting their pronunciation of my name. Also, they clearly favourite and give special treatment to certain students.
2. Practicals are not something to look forward to. It's literal labour. You're basically doing a zookeepers job without being paid. You don't get any rest/breaks for 3 hours and you can't pick the animals you work with.
3. All the trips are so poorly organised. Who arranges a trip to chester zoo in November when it's freezing and raining?!?!
4. Work experience is stupid. If you can't find a placement, they won't help you out.
5. The college is full of snobby bullies and the teachers don't care.
DO NOT GO TO REASEHEATH!
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Signed up for food tech and accommodation. I have mental health issues therefore can't take the transport. I have spent a lot of money and time going back and forth for no reason.
I went on two tours and not once was I told about an expensive deposit and the overly priced price to stay. I am being treated like an idiot. Also I have to appeal for free accommodation (still having to pay for the deposit).I was told that even after properly enrolling I would have to wait 4 weeks for a bus pass. I don't think anyone understands that I live far away and I have mental and physical health issues. So now I am stuck with nothing.
I was also told bakery isn't a proper course(along those lines) therefore they won't pay for my accommodation.
Mother received a call and was told I have a room for myself and didn't say anything about a deposit again. When I went recently after that call they said I am sharing a room. No communication.
I am having bad anxiety and stress due to my experience.
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I Studied Bakery and Patisserie at Reaseheath. I food staff that teached me were amazing and very supportive, they had all worked in the industry which was great as they could share their expertise with us. I also lived in halls of residence where i had the best time, as there was always so much going on.
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Currently studying animal management course. I wouldn’t even think it deserves 1 star from my view. Tutors are the ABSOLUTE worse. Get treated like children all of the time, always moody bad tempered tutors which snap at you for anything. Absolute horrible place I would highly NOT recommend animal management. All tutors are lazy, down right horrible people in general, always pick favourites & NEVER help people with mental health issues. Practical lessons are pointless, all you do is do a zoo keepers unpaid work for 3.5 hours with no break, don’t even get a choice of what you want to work with & then again, get bossed around & treated badly by the instructors. If you have a problem with college, no point going to your course manager they won’t do anything. Also extremely rude reception ladies who always give you dirty looks & can never be bothered doing their job right, very unwelcoming not to mention the snobby librarians. Absolute joke Reaseheath College is, do NOT let your child come here.
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Great to see the lambing. We were able to stroke the sheep and cuddle the lambs. The zoo is also great.
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This place is a disgrace & I bitterly regret my child going there. I would urge any Parent to think very carefully about alternatives
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This was the Family Festival 13th May 2018. A great day out for adults and children alike. Lots to do and would highly recommend Reaseheath College for anyone wanting to study agriculture.
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The college campus is nice, however my personal experiences on the animal management course was far from it.
The course was awful. Everyone was stressed and the tutors kept leaving and when we got replacement tutors they would also end up leaving too. I must have gone through easily over 20 tutors over my time on the course.
Practicals are a chore rather than actually being a fun experience. This is due to the fact the keepers refuse to give the students choices in what animals they get to work with. This means students have to spend months cleaning out animals they are either uninterested in or scared of. Examples would be girls in my class who were terrified of insects, yet had to spend months in a room with spiders, ants and cockroaches freely roaming the invert room. Another example is my friend who loves fish being forced to work with farm animals constantly despite picking the exotics pathway.
Staff in general seem to fail to understand they are teaching in a college. Many act incredibly patronizing towards their students treating them as though they are children. I recall many times when a entire class of 18-20 year old students were patronized by tutors who seem more at home to be teaching in a high school than an actual college establishment.
Another issue is the discrimination within the course towards mental health issues. Students with depression, bipolar, etc being told to drop out if they can't cope instead of being given support to get through the year. Most students I knew suffering mental health issues dropped out because of the sheer lack of support the tutors gave.
Attendance to the Animal Management course is terrible as many students don't feel motivated to come in and learn because of the way they are treated. Our class even had someone come in to tell us that attendance is at an all time low and they know it's because nobody enjoys the course. They asked us what was wrong and when people told them they never did anything to fix the issues raised.
Overall I do not recommend this course for anyone unless they want to:
- Be working with farm animals endlessly.
- Be treated like a child by the tutors.
- Be waiting for hours for a tutor to show up for a lesson.
- Be exposed to a constant state of unorganized chaos.
- Be struggling to cope with stress and suicidal thoughts.
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I dont usually make reviews but my issues are enough to list here.
> Tutors never stop quitting the course, no doubt due to stress and being unhappy it makes everyone else on the course unhappy.
> Because the tutors keep dropping like flies student learning and grades no doubt suffer as a result. (Stability is important in a student's life.)
> B ready? What the ****. I'm 24 years old. How patronizing and to make it worse it's compulsory??? I do not need to learn about sex education, drugs, alcohol. It's a damn waste of my time and fuel money.
And here's the most controversial subject of the lot.
> The course is filled with an abnormally high concentration of autistic people who do not know how to behave in an adults environment and typically ruin the learning experience for others when not under constant supervision. (No doubt this is what caused tutors to treat everyone like children.)
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