Craven College

I had the best experience at this college. I was doing a sports course and recieved the help and support i needed.I am currently at university doing a physiotherapy course. The tutors i had was great fun and enjoyable made my experience at college way better than i had expected because i was dreading it. The tutors were great and i would 100% recommend doing this course as it would be beneficial for someone who is into the sports pathway.

SPORTS DEPARTMENT - SERIOUS UNPROFESSIONALISM. Last Update - The department’s response to this was to email my mum twice (who has nothing to do with this) instead of me, a grown adult, and to also block me on Instagram? Very weird if you consider they had to manually look my account up to do that, I didn’t even follow them. I faced a lot of bullying from students AND TUTORS in the Sports Department. This was due to me dealing with debilitating health problems at the time which I had no control over. I was teased, bullied and mocked over my symptoms and also for passions I'm pursuing outside of college, by both students AND TUTORS. In fact, I was very tempted to write a formal complaint to the college after I left back in June regarding how I was treated. I was out of college for months due to this illness and received barely any communication from the sports tutors, I was often outright ignored whenever I’d reach out. Upon my return and for several months after, I was still dealing with the aftermath of this illness and lingering symptoms, which were not taken seriously by the department. It was blatantly obvious that the tutors didn’t like me because of the time I took off of college and due to me struggling with the work because of my symptoms. They seemed to also think it was me struggling with my mental health, rather than a genuine illness, all it takes is one Google search to learn that post viral syndrome is a real thing and can happen to anyone. However, given their job title as sports tutors, I would’ve thought they’d have somewhat of a grasp on how human health works. There was also clear favouritism towards certain students. One in particular, who I will not name, was going through a hard time around the same period as me. I noticed that the tutors regularly held him back for support and overlooked things like lateness. Yet when I was struggling, I was ignored and treated as if I was an inconvenience. For the sake of future students, please encourage the Sports Department to show empathy and understanding to those who are struggling as I was. I was going through the worst experience of my life, and the lack of support made it even harder, ultimately leading to an insubstantial grade. Luckily this isn’t the career I want anymore, but who knows how other students might react if treated the same way. That aside, the course itself is just quite poor anyway. Lack of support, tutors engaging in social alignment and gossiping about students both current and former, overall toxic environment that favours popular and more confident students, I could go on. It was genuinely a fun course during my first year but it all seemed to go downhill towards the end. To address the tutors directly, why? What was your goal and intentions for treating me this way? Did you think I’d be too oblivious to clock on to it? I’m not stupid, I just didn’t have the confidence to stand up for myself. Shame on you all as grown adults for willingly treating a young person this way and for ruining my college experience. This can seriously ruin someone’s development, imagine if this was happening to someone in your family. Why do you think I’d have random days off of college? Not only for the sake of my own health, but because I couldn’t deal with the way I was treated. Rather than talking to me about it, you’d all get angry, take it personally, and talk about me. It is disgusting, and I hope to never see any of you again. The least you could offer me is an apology, but I know your egos won’t allow you to. Consider yourselves lucky that there’s far more I’m choosing to not share. I came to this college looking for a fresh start after having a terrible time at school, which one of you in particular was aware of, yet you somehow managed to top it. I did nothing to deserve this. I imagine when they see this it will likely be their office gossip for the day, and they will probably try make out that I’m exaggerating. If that’s the case, so be it. It proves the point I’m making about the lack of empathy and professionalism I experienced.

Great staff but I think I spent more time at home then I did at college for a plethora of excuses they gave me which is great when you have an exam every 3 weeks for the course I did.

Now I am at uni, I've noticed stark contrasts between my current and previous learning environments. The tone in which my questions were addressed was simply unacceptable. My number one issue is the Wildlife/Agriculture department aren't careful how they speak to those who are trying their best! I often felt low after emails with further unspecified instructions. The leader of HE, was disgusting for this. They didn't fulfill risk assessments by walking with us as opposed to miles ahead. Another student nearly broke her ankles trying to keep up and my support had a hypoglycemic attack in the middle of a trip. I shouted to the course leader and she couldn't hear me or help me. Is this legal? They were incredibly lucky that I am trained to help in these situations. It's not just feelings, it was eye watering fear, that will stay in my memory forever. Their negligence put both me and my support in a life threatening position, I took her weight to catch up. This may result in legal implications. I have now just left the tutor and her obvious favourite to it. My support was too kind to say anything so I will: the consistent, demeaning way she was spoken to was wrong. It's a hard enough time to be disabled but this rubs rotting dirt in the wound. I know my support was apologised to about a similar occurrence earlier in the year, but that was about a different incident and would be worth revisiting to show fundamental human respect. Peoples' feelings do matter when trying to keep them on a course and I highly appreciate that that was the intention, this primary school playgroundish behaviour was pathetic and I will not tolerate it. I had to put my health and happiness first and leave. The LEADER OF HE/FE, actively engaged in bullying another student's relationship with another person. This displayed such childish, twisted behaviour. Gillian Thom didn't put up prompt, solid, targets and assignment briefs to make the goalposts clear. For example, assignment briefs were often given or updated close to the deadline, making it very hard for students to keep up and feel organised. I would expect this as a minimum on a HE degree. My current lecturers reminded me that the way me and my support were spoken to and treated is abnormal and deemed wholly unacceptable in academic circles. You simply can't be respected as an academic and treat others the way she did. Respect should work both ways. At another uni, my ideas are encouraged and supported, and it feels amazing to not be taken for granted and put down. I have the peer reviewed, successfully completed, Michigan researched, mycology project; the idea was presented to her, many times, it was ignored. It is being tested and possibly implemented finally by zoology and ecology students. If it's successfully managed, it may have implications nationally. Possibly internationally if it's done well. I have taken my complaints to the Uni of Hull about the course, and they took it extremely seriously so the course isn't running in the future. The uni of Hull is absolutely pathetic for even allowing a course such as this one continue... I wish all the best for the leader of HE, and her one student who can tolerate the abuse. But I BEG them to be more empathic towards future students. Even if the worst comes to the worst, I will not be attending Craven College again, despite the offer for Level 5.

Badly Let Down, Lack Of PSA's in classes, Lack of Understanding of SEND Students especially Students with Autism. I actually nearly got suspended onces which I suspected because I have a learning disability. When I made a complaint they took ages to get back to be in the end they closed the complaint. Seam like they don't care about their Students.