Foundations For Learning Was Rubbish When It Was Just South Downs College Mainstream Students And The Staff Were Unfriendly, Disrespectful And Unhelpful I'd Avoid This Place If You Have Anyone With Autism Or Special Needs As You'll Be Treated The Same As I Was Bullies.
Couldn’t recommend a college more. Science department was very helpful and knew what they were teaching. Enough breaks for independent learning. Food is good. Wellbeing team very supportive
Trust me. Going to this college would be your biggest mistake. Firstly, they're known for making unjust changes with little notice. They think they know what they're doing, but many things just make me think they're dumb. The latest change being that they cut down on break time, which is essential for memory and eases stress. Secondly, the mental health team is, in the nicest way, blooming appalling. If you are at this college and you're struggling with stress, DONT let the team know. They'll only make it worse as they actually suspend unhappy children for months. See for yourself if you don't believe it!
Word of warning. Thinking of choosing an Art/Graphic design A level? Then please read this before considering. The teachers in the art department and graphic design department are useless. Why? Because they are unsupportive, aggressive, rude and disrespectful. I took an art based A level and it consumed me for two years alongside two other A levels! I had barely any free time as I had to constantly produce work in my sketch book. However it was apparently never good enough or “made no sense”. Time and time again I asked straightforwardly, what do I need to create to gain a good grade? Instead I was met with snarky, condescending responses from teachers that couldn’t be bothered to just give me a straight answer. The whole time doing this A level I felt stressed, unsupported and frustrated. I tried so hard to work with these teachers but they just couldn’t get along with me. The worst part is, everything is marked internally. So even if you did try your best and produced work that is good, you still won’t get the mark you fairly deserve because of biased marking. MANY people left during my art A level course because they could no longer put up with the nasty attitude from the teachers in the art department. I wanted to stick it out as I really wanted an art qualification for my future. However it was not worth it as I was given a very low grade from internal marking. If many people leave one course, surely it begs the question, “why are they leaving?” I can tell you, the teachers. If this course had different teachers then I wouldn’t be writing this review or been given such a low grade. I wish I had never taken an art based A level since there was no real guidance or help provided. I really urge students to stay away from Havant college’s art department because it will be a head ache for 2 years!
"Am I overreacting or am I allowed to be upset by that?" I left this college early. I didn't want to. Upon enrollment, I had aspirations of getting top grades and going to a good University. Things fell apart when I wasn't adjusting well to the workload. At the start of my second year, I felt a lot of friction between me and one of my teachers. I felt like I spent more time proving to him I was actually competent, than learning anything from him. Any time I would ask for help, I was met with "You should know this!" and "Well, It's not secondary school anymore." I understand that there is a greater disconnect between teacher and student in A-Level education - but I just felt condescended to. He refuses to explain tasks in any further detail than two or three sentences, and gets upset when you're confused or do it slightly wrong. He would shout and belittle people in class often. I felt embarrassed to talk to him about my original ideas during creative tasks. After mentioning this teacher to others, I've only heard worse stories than mine. This guy is truly awful. Whenever I opened up about my disability I was met with two ultimatums: Quit or power through. I guess I chose the fool's way out. Think of me as argumentative, sensitive, stupid. I don't care. I'll be back, I still want to get those good grades. You sure as hell won't see me in his class, however.
I don't go here, but the parking is very confusing. I tried to meet up with a friend who goes here, and even they didn't understand where the carparks were.
Not impressed at the moment but open to changing my mind! My child does attend Havant campus, a teacher was very unprofessional. In a class in the week of 26 Sept 2022 the teacher in question spent his time yelling, screaming and swearing at the students, making some cry and not explaining to them clearly and what is expected when he sets homework. This is clearly not acceptable and his behaviour is extremely unprofessional. I was tempted to go to the college but my child is scared of reprisals so I am unable to report this. My child is now considering a whole new career due to this person, loves the subject, is passionate about the subject has worked really hard to get the grades to get into the class. I hope Havant will emphasis to every teacher that this type of unprofessional bullying behaviour is wholly unacceptable, it is never acceptable to act like this.
I came to the college with 10 gcse’s and a head teachers award awarded only to the head prefect, head boy, head girl and me but I left the college with no qualifications. I was popular at school but I left the college unpopular. When the college realised I was struggling they suggested I did an apprenticeship instead so I applied to become and electrician or plumper. They put me into a engineering apprenticeship which I didn’t want to do. I completed the apprenticeship with a high qualification but I do didn’t like engineering and left after my apprenticeship. When you leave school the early years after are the most important so choose your college and courses wisely. Worst decision of my life was going to this college.
if they offer you counselling just know it’s only for 6-8 weeks and then after that they don’t help you. they offer you booklets on how to get support from elsewhere which we all know takes ages. plus it was the college’s problem that caused the need for counselling by keeping a student who threatens you and tries to control what you do and say. i asked to see someone about it and they said the next time they could see me was in a week. they need more resources to deal with students and their problems.
This college used to be great but has fallen on worse times over the last 2 years. Many of my cousins and relatives used to go here and they had good successes here. However, recently my niece has complained to me about the dropping standard of teaching and teachers missing online video calls on google or staying on the meet but not teaching and just giving menial revision tasks from last year instead of actual lectures. This is especially in the chemistry department starting from the last few months. This is detrimental to children's education here as they didn't give her any live lessons in her subjects in the last lockdown and now they only make a show of these meetings on google. I am very surprised that such a good college would continue to have some teachers doing this especially considering the complaints over the alternate week system in the news. I understand certain departments are lacking teachers but that doesn't prevent teachers merging classrooms online and giving proper lectures and teaching new content instead of giving menial time-wasting revision tasks from previous year's content and only talking for 15 minutes instead of the full 2 hours. I urge Mr Gaston to fix this as it is affecting your college's reputation in my community and diminishing it's good standing as a place of education.
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