Got assaulted, then victim blamed by department head.
NorthKent College was *the worst* education experience I have ever had, and this is coming from someone who's primary school experience literally caused lasting mental trauma.
In December of 2021, I was assaulted by another student over a misunderstanding, if it wasn't for the way I reacted, this could've been a fatal incident for me.
This incident only lead to the perpetrator being forced to work from home for January of 2022, but when I didn't turn up for the rest of the week in order to recover (I still did significantly more work than usual from home) I was marked down for attendance to the level that I am now banned from coming back.
Around the start of February 2022, this assaulter returned to the college, and I was pulled into a meeting to "discuss" this, where all that happened was the department head (Marie McGovan) blamed me for the entire incident, told me not to do things I have proved I never did (and when I reminded her of this fact, she said she was "not blaming anyone"), she completely absolved my assaulter of all wrong-doing and just let us go, I never heard another word about this from her.
In addition to being assaulted, I would also say that the provided course materials were sub-par, and I learned less in the lessons that I do from browsing Wikipedia.
I found the college environment to be incredibly hard to work in, to the level that spending a day at home, I could accomplish the same work I'd do in a week physically attending college.
The college also (at-least at the time of my enrollment) advertises "state of the art" computers, despite the fact that we were only provided the cheapest model of Apple Mac from 2014, that was also so full of unremovable bloatware that it took sometimes 20 minutes just to get to the login screen.
Now, I'm no lawyer, but this seems like it'd be an easy false advertising case.
1 February 2022
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