College College, University in Basingstoke

Reviews

1. Chatter Box ★☆☆☆☆

   BCOT has some great tutors and facilities but the management are ruthless, they accept a lot of SEND pupils for the additional funding and don't deliver. The college accepted my son's EHCP which was comprehensive and by no means misleading, when he was badly assaulted on college premises they excluded him, none of the management cared and they blamed him and told him to contact the police. The Principal leaves his deputy principals to run the college and they are accountable to absolutely no one. Despite making complaints regarding the college not delivering the EHCP provision and about the exclusion process, they did not address the complaint. Even when I went to the board of governors my complaint was ignored. For SEND pupils, BCOT should be avoided, the SEND department deliver nothing and in my son's case they said personal development sessions, that are delivered to ALL pupils were his additional support. BCOT has some great tutors but sadly it is is self regulating and mismanaged by a corrupt senior management team.

   almost 9 months ago
2. Zack Simpson ★☆☆☆☆

   This college is an absolute joke! Spent a lot of money on level 1 and 2 plumbing and then when I finished I went to find an apprenticeship. I found an apprenticeship and I was doing things that I was never shown in college so I was making mistakes. Several things I had absolutely no clue what to do as again wasn't shown in college and my boss made a comment to another worker saying that he thinks I am lying about going to college! Thankfully I was shown what to do and learned quickly but I was advised that I should go back to college because whoever was my teacher was apparently an absolute fool because almost everything that I was teached and shown was wrong !!

   almost 10 months ago
3. Sean Ellis ★☆☆☆☆

   got kicked out for poor attendance (-90% at end of year) my friend with similar attendance was also given the boot but appealed to the teachers and was let back in, I also tried but was ignored. thanks for wasting 2 years of my life.

   almost 11 months ago

1. Lloyd Squire ★☆☆☆☆

   After giving them my ehcp forms they asked for took ages to get support and when the support lady had to have time off they didn't substitute her AT ALL, i get extra time + other additions in tests and they were not in place either, techer did absolutely nothing to help with these problems. Rubbish college

   1 year ago
2. Tetiana Kalinichenko ★★★★★

   I do love this college. I’m only doing English courses, but I’m more than happy with that. Teachers are really good (I learned a lot with their help) and college in general looks very nice. I enjoy every one of my lesson there. Definitely recommend English courses with Maria Thorne

   almost 2 years ago

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