University of Derby Reviews 6

amazing university very helpful staff and best support ever. should be a russell group.

You pay a lot for nothing. I studied interior design you don’t get any good programs or teaching and you have to pay for everything yourself they don’t even provide good school pc idk how they expect people to do great things when they don’t get any support. One management of the teachers regarding the submissions and classes is shit. In my bachelor year a teacher quit a month bevor the submissions like bro? U good? It’s a joke honestly as a international stundend like me you normally have to pay a even bigger price wich makes no sense to me.

Attended here as a mature student (at 30years old I decided to return to education for a change in career after being made redundant). Initially, in my first year of the degree I saw massive inconsistencies with the quality and skill of the lecturer’s within the accounting and finance department, most just didn’t care, didn’t want to help, didn’t like to be challenged or questioned about the ‘knowledge’ we were provided. There was also huge noticeable differences in the grading of work. Year 2 was much the same. When I started year 3 I became ill, and unfortunately had a cancer return. I had to postpone my third and final year so start the following September. Though I provided medical evidence of my chronic and terminal (yes terminal) diagnosis I was still pursued for a full years tuition even though I had only been present for 4 weeks. Because I left the course SFE cancelled my funding for the year, I had to get into debt to pay these vultures back! When I did go back for my final year I was not provided with the £100 book voucher each student is gifted at the start of each academic year (this vouchers does really help with text book cost which run into the hundreds. I was told I was not eligible For the voucher because I had received one the previous year, I had left before these were issued.
On the plus side the female lecturers far outweighed the male lecturers in teaching ability and helpfulness. Ruth, Hillary, Liz and Juliet ( though I think many of these have left now, and I don’t blame them they were far too good for this place). My advice got to NTU for accounting and finance.

Would give this place 0 stars if I could. This University does not care about their disabled students. They refuse to implement basic adjustments (which goes against the 2010 Equality Act) then send nasty messages/emails when you don't turn up due to the fact you cannot attend because these reasonable adjustments aren't met. The lecturers don't care either. I'm so very happy that I've left University of Derby and found a better University that does support their disabled students. Do better Derby.

Everything was ok when I was enrolled and attended, I had to drop out due to my mother’s ill health. Everything was ok they said that was fine, roll on 2-3 years or so later I am now being chased by their recovery department and threatened with bailiffs despite telling them it was all agreed years ago.

Not sure if it was an admin error but the manner of the emails received shows no class and are simply money hungry with no sympathies to the fact I dropped out due to my own mother’s poor health. I am not sure if this will be resolved quickly but I would like it to be. The simple fact is I was told it was fine to drop out and they’ve gone back on their words and are now chasing. Are they going out of business?

I have told them all this of course but I don’t think Derby has a course on morals because the moral tone is disgusting, if you cannot afford it we will put get you on a scheme…

This is not a University that cares about there students past or present judging by the other reviews on here.

Avoid - your money will be better spent elsewhere.

I studied my masters degree in fashion and textiles here for two years from 2021.
I had a lovely teacher called Jo Ray who was the only person that bent over backwards in helping me.
She was always positive about my work.
I also had help from Cathy and Kate in the digital print room. Lovely people.
Thank you to these three wonderful people.

I clearly had the wrong face, was the wrong gender and age, when it came to others. They don't like single mothers.
They don't like older students.
They reckon they're better than other universities and colleges and dispute any great work you have accomplished in other places.

Apart from Jo I was absolutely miserable.
One teacher, Martin, secretly ruined all of my prints then blamed it on me because I walked in, in bad mood. Apparently.?
I had my headphones on and wasn't paying attention to him, I guess?

He made some discriminate remarks about disabled people being able to reach a machine more than me, because I struggled to alter silk screen printing fixings. He moaned at me for using the dryer racks up when I'd had to take months off for my son and had returned to crack on with things.
Funny that, because by May, at that point, most students had finished. Horrible feral man. No matter how well mannered I was, he still hated me.

Just hated me from the get go.

When I raised the issues, no one was interested.
The amount of times I felt ignored, put down and generally unwelcome....

I was in tears a lot at student services where one little gremlin just laughed at me from behind his computer and pretended to contact my tutor when in reality he was just loving the view. Feral staff.
Too lazy to get up and return my work.

I was treated like sh** by some feral penfold looking dude in Fashion who clearly thinks he's special. Chucked out of rooms that I was entitled to work in.
Fashion teachers are horrible.
One in particular. If she doesn't like you, she'll force you to leave. Seen it in action. Seen people suffer.
And they get away with it all because they all back up each other.

All they did was make me feel sh** about my work or ignore me. I had to complain just to get some guidance.
In mediation the teachers pretended to care. Utter B.S.

Years ago I tried to join Fine Art but left because the male teachers had something against me. One would say hello to everyone else but ignore me and wouldn't message me about what room we were supposed to be in, when he did everyone else. Even when I challenged them with evidence I was the wrong one.
Of course he denied this, reluctant to treat me like an equal and they gas lit me. Trying to push me onto another course just to get rid of me. Not, ok, well let's try to resolve the situation. Guilty.

I left after 8 weeks as no one had helped me one bit. This was in 2011.
I was reluctant to join in 2021 but had little choice.
Just glad it's not part of my life anymore.

People just care about money. Nothing can undo what they did.
Nothing.

Just adding. Months after I finished, UOD's finances team kept emailing me saying I owed them tuition fees of £1095. When I sent them screen shots of my bank statement as proof of payment, they ignored. However, someone else picked up my email on a separate occasion, I was returned £750 because they'd over charged me.
BEWARE.