The University of Northampton Reviews 17

I was waiting in the University of Northampton Family Pickup Bay when a UNO bus driver aggressively knocked at the window and asked me if I had a problem with him.

He said he honked his horn for me to get out of the Pickup Bay.

I was parked in the family p;ickup / drop part of the bay because the Taxi Bay - which I was not in was being used as a temporary Bus stop.

I asked if he wanted me to move forwards but he just kept shouting that any other PERMANENT signs (showing that I had 10 minutes to wait to pickup a UNO customer/student) did not apply.

I'm an ex solicitors research assistant, so I know that is legally incorrect and unlawful, all permanent road signs (private and public) apply at all times unless removed or professionally obfuscated, these were not.

I did hear the horn but thought it was the car that had to stop whilst the bus driver pulled out in front of them that had right of way on the roundabout.

I hope there is video proof at the university of him standing at the window of my car waving his arms about and behaving in an aggressive manner.

When I told him he was aggressive he than started arguing "so in what way am I aggressive" and then continued to tell me I was wrong to park where I have for the last 6 years to pick up my family from a safe pickup & drop-off point.

I know that the University has by law to provide a safe place to pickup & drop-off students at their entrances as their duty of care, so I am not going to let a bullying bus driver deter me just because they cant properly drive their bus around a roundabout.

I am also not going to be pushed into the TAXI pickup section and get a £100 car parking fine!!!!! either.

It is not up to a bus driver to change the law.

Incident was Monday the 2nd February at approx 12:40AM.

This university has no idea what inclusion is and are in no way 'epilepsy friendly'. They leave you feeling inadequate, isolated and vulnerable they hide behind their business and the appeals process is a joke they are for themselves and not for the students at all.

I studied at this horrible, racist, and bias uni for a year. I was allocated ms. mortimer as a supervisor. She was racist and low minded individual, who bullied me, and shouted at me. Even after making complaints after complaints (there are already too many complaints against her based on bullying coloured students) but nothing was unlocked against her ... I will write on each and every platform. I am still sure that the uni won't do anything against her, shame on them.

I studied criminology at the university of Northampton and found the degree has very bad job prospects and it is very hard to find a job related to this degree. With a student loan to pay back I regret doing this degree and the teaching was not good.

I was studying Sociology BS (Hons) which at the time was a relatively new department at University College Northampton as it was known then, despite attending all my seminars, lectures, completing all exams and passing I want awarded my degree. The Head of Department told me in my office that he didn’t award degrees to ‘dirty faggots’ and when I reported him I was ignored by the Faculty Board after he lied to them. Even though I had videoed him holding me by my throat in his office for a second time. Three years of my life wasted because of homophobia. It has taken me a long time to go through counselling and finally speak about this experience. June 2002. Now the university tells me they have no record of my attendance despite showing them my payments for tuition fees and emails.

Applied to study here in 2022. Was lied to alongside the other first years and told that we were all guaranteed a place in the on-campus accommodation - which looked lovely and was more like a gated complex. Upon moving day, I found that I was, in fact, going to be living in St Johns, which is in the town centre. This would be fine, except the town centre is riddled with crime, drugs, and people who generally seem unsafe to be around. Within the first month, the accommodation was broken into and the university services seemed to care very little, simply myself and my other flatmates to lock ourselves in our rooms until someone could come and have a look at the door. During this time, a group of unidentified men entered our flat, took items from our kitchen, and trashed our communal space - something the services person initially tried to blame us for when they eventually showed up.
Upon me then inevitably deciding to leave my course, I was told I had two weeks in which I could leave, but - importantly - I withdrew from my course before the cut-off point of being charged. A member of the St Johns staff entered my room without notice or warning whilst I was in the shower, and I never received an apology. Then, to make matters worse, the uni attempted to charge me as a student for months after I left.
Would not recommend attending here, unconditional offer or not.

I have finished my degree but couldn't get my graduation due to poor communication...what a shame as people do not graduate every day...
No Thanks
Northampton is WEAK as it can NOT provide a ceremony for the students that tried to work hard 4,4 years
Many Thanks Northampton
Please change the management

Considering other bad reviews I am guessing it depends on your own experience and which course you take.

I have attended this University over the Pandemic and they have done their best to ensure the programme is still as successful. Left with a Distinction although half of the course was done Online.

University of Northampton is a best University for international students .the international students who is pursuing your masters degree in uk i would personaly suggest him to join University of northampton.The whole management is very welcoming for international students .the fees is very low and you can pay your remining fees in installment.

The local government made a really bad choice by first of all spending council cash strapped funds on the university kingsthorpe campus (purpose built for students and staff and it has larger grounds) and then for no reason moving it to a location close to town centre causing a lot of problems: car parking, traffic congestion as it is close to a main traffic road leading to business complex, lack of parking, local residents have complained about noise pollution, litter and crime that both international and uk students can bring. The university was fined for overscribing students. Rise in house prices as a result of the large number of students and demand for residential housing. The campus itself is in a location close to hospitals and NHS, town centre which is crime infested. Students roam about freely in large numbers and have been known to cause nuisance and mischief for patients of the dentists, GPs, hospitals, users of supermarkets, shops and restuarants. There have been cases of students trying to gain entry to this country illegally and despite being fined they are building a new building next to nat west bank and and blocking passengers on buses near a bus shelter. It is a racist institution.

This university and its post-graduation job guarantee are absolutely untrue. The Changemaker staff are very robotic and do not take any interest in your own life or career. Their version f helping someone to find a job is to send the person links to jobs that are available, which I am fairly confident any person can do by themselves. I sent them my CV to review and a ChangeMaker employee sent it back with a few suggestions, those suggestions were things that were already in my CV, she just happened to overlook them while she was reviewing. Poor levels of thoroughness. Lack of any true effort. Once they are done with you, they are done with you, no follow-up emails, no evident consistency or urgency to try to get you a job or even an interview. They do not seem to have any industry connections that actually help guarantee people opportunities.

I remember very well my days in this University as a student, and the series of issues I had to go through with lectures which eventually led me to walking away from the Uni. In my second year.
As a student I had high hopes of finishing my course and going to do better things for myself but that dream was immediately cut short due to the unprofessional approach by some of the Law lecturers and their attitude towards students. They discriminate against you and reward the ones they like with higher marks. Till this day I still haven't recovered from their attitude. I will never recommend this university even to my worse enemy.

The University was very unfriendly and slow to reply urgent matters. They are not supportive and overall all teaching & education quality is below average. They just structured the Masters course for making money from international students. The Courses are far easier than bachelors. One of my friends also get terminated from studies and the university didn't give a second chance to complete the course after providing valid reasons.
There is lack of communications between department to department. Different teams will guide you differently on based of assumption if someone encounter any problem.
I will not recommend anyone to plan their higher education in this institution.

Best place to come if you want to party and fail in life :)

If you are a BAME student do not do the Human Bioscience course. I am predicted a first and hoping to finish.

Some of the lecturers on this course a very unprofessional and passive aggressive and are different in private in comparison to in public (There are a few good lecturers but my overall experience at the Uni is negative).

The nutrition lecturer is very petty. I was a student advocate in my first year and he invited me into a private room after I brought forward feedback about the module. He invited me into a private room and then shouted at me that because of what I had done his module would not be in the new Biomedical science course.

I was called pootard by the Programme leader and asked are you are Looney.

The genetics lecturer also asked me "are you a criminal" directly in a class full of people mentioning my name specifically.

I can say that this university is one of the worst university, I have ever come across in my whole academic life. I used to be a master student there. During my studies, I found a lot of racism, discrimination, homophobia, etc.etc., especially from their staff.

I remember my teachers used to bully me on regular basis. They used to threaten me, shout at me and discriminate towards me based on my sexuality. At the end of my first six months, I was expelled from my degree for no special reason and was taken from the enrolment without following the correct procedures. Because of them, I suffered and went through a tough time. Due to the severe stress, I lost my health badly.

After a long process, I took my case to OIAHE, who looked into the matter and issued an order that the university should pay my first year fees as the correct procedures were not taken. When I made a complaint to the vice-chancellor and other senior officials, they all ignored and neglected my complaint.

Four years ago, I finished my degree with distinction from one of the best university in UK and secured a job in academia. My incident was not the first, after leaving northampton, I came across a lot of people (i.e. students and academics), who told me various upsetting stories against northampton. It seems that the university's staff (specially staff in the marketing and advertising school) has some kind of problems with people from outside the UK. International/EU students and staff are treated badly by the local staff. I made several requests in past, however, I never listened any apology from the university. It is strange that you hire students from all over the world and then bully and degrade them.

I would like to suggest international/EU students that they should not join them, especially programmes in their marketing and advertising school.

I had a terrible experience with Northampton University. I applied for a position at it. They invited me to an interview. Firstly, they do not reimburse travel costs for interviews. Secondly, four days after my interview I contacted them to know the interview outcome the answer was everything was OK, however I have to wait as they want to interview more candidates. I contacted them after one month from the interview date. They got back to me one week later telling me that they found a better person for the position.
From my experience, I would say do not wast your time applying to this University.