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DO NOT GO HERE.I left a totally reasonable review of my awful HE experience here and they have tried to get it taken down. Look at the stats. Utterly terrible. Take down as many reviews as you want but the offering is still officially poor.

There a garbage hole for boneheaded individuals without the sense to go work for a more reputable place, basically the ragend of educational settings. What I learned here did not help me land a job, in fact my efforts to find anything while studying were not recognised. My marks not good enough for top -up when you only need basic pass They are a useless shambles of a place with no morals or common sense. Your qualifications will quickly lose any value shorty after leaving as they failed to offer me any alternatives

Honest reviewAwful place. The lecturers do absolutely nothing to teach you. They sit at the front doing their own thing, getting paid for nothing. THIS IS NOT AN OFSTED GOOD COLLEGE. OFSTED WHERE CLEARLY PAID OFF.

I wish there were a rating of no stars ITS APPALLING!! Placement spaces 2 hrs away from home 🤬 Have to give up working part time . College courses dropped without notice, lecturers who cannot teach their subjectDon’t go there!!!

The Games Development course is a shambles. 3 weeks now with most of my lessons without a lecturer present. When there is a lecturer there they don’t teach you, just sit there and do nothing.

Terrible, bullied on my chosen course by other students thank god the teacher was quick to act I think the teacher for that.

New College Durham is a fantastic college that offers a variety of different courses. I studied Travel & Tourism here for 1 year (2020-2021). To start off with, the lecturers are supportive, friendly and helpful and will even go out of their way on their days off to help you with your assignments or listen to any concerns you have wether that's a weekday or weekend. Faye was my main lecturer and she's done an incredible job especially helping the group throughout teams and zoom calls during the third lockdown in January and February. Faye was also training a new teacher called Laura and they've both done a spectacular job and I throw my hats off to them. The College itself as a whole is organized, and most definitely supportive. The College gave me a laptop to take home (a new laptop) to work on my assignments over lockdown and they even provided me with an atlas that the travel course requires you to buy at the start of the year. The staff are lenient and flexible. The Maths department at New College is also very supportive though they do have their ups and downs. I have always struggled with Maths but I had an additional coaching session with Helen which I highly appreciated and learned lots more with Helen than I did in my actual main lessons. I can't write a say on the English department as I did not study English here due to passing at GCSE stage.Overall, this college is brilliant and I highly recommend it! Huge congratulations to the Travel & Tourism department and the head of Travel, Rebecca.

This place of education does not offer much in terms of value for its degrees.

Shambles of a college. Course information/ prerequisites are inaccurate. Assignments don’t get marked on time; tutors just regurgitate old outdated material. Security is an absolute joke, is literally none existent.

Poor learning support provision acts patronising, belittling towards those with mental disabilities, physical health impairments and treats them like garbage, Claire horrid old learning support assistant is still working at New college Durham and despite numerous complaints by other students she still works there; the college still has not sacked her and still many other students even the classroom still complaint about the lack of support available, bullying even by members of staff at the college.

English and maths students socially exclude disabled students from their courses, Students from the doll, emotionally abuse disabled students for no fault of their own while in class, confident student do not apply, #nursing #socialcare #medcine #italian #bisexual #lgbtq go elsewhere

I went to Newcollege Durham in the year of 2019 to 2020 at the time to study adult maths and English; I was focused on getting my maths and English exams and the teachers at the time didn't put me thru any formal qualifications due to my attitude of just being focused on getting my examinations and certificates and not on learning; my entire learning experience was ruined by learning support assistant called Claire at the time; who was patronising me and bullying me and being mean towards me while I at the time done nothing wrong; Claire mistreated me it was like she should of maybe chose a different job than rather be a learning support assistant in the classroom; when I was doing my English lessons other fellow students were being horrible to me when every time I tried to leave the classroom to go to the toilet; my opinion there was bullying and at the time I was being bullied harshly for being disabled the English teacher should of done more to prevent bullying at the college which unfortunately was commonplace amongst the students in the English lessons while I would attend my maths lessons I was used repeatedly for cigarettes by some sexy Thai guy initially he was alright until I found out he used me to bum cigarettes off me 2 weeks in a row that's when until I realized he was nothing except a migrant scrounging tw*t; I did however made one friend who was American he was really nice to me part from that I would give this college one and half stars overall because of Claire the horrid learning support assistant who treated me differently like I was nothing except a idiot which in my opinion is totally shocking from someone who was suppose to help me especially for one to one maths support; the head of learning support support officer she is Muslim she treats Muslims more favourably than non Muslims: overall a very turned up for lessons due to the distance of the commute and I was entered in for 1 mock exam which wasn't even a proper exam I wasn't rewarded certificate; if I had to advise this college it would be make sure these mistakes don't repeat themselves; luckily I would never attend this college again and I'm thankful that I'm not due to my negative experience with Clair.

Date of experience: March 21, 2023