Moulton College

Terrible, would not recommend.

I was studying Animal Care and, while that stream of learning is demanding, there was an overwhelming amount of assignments, along with work experience and commercial experience in college, these were impossible to complete simultaneously.

On top of this, there was a lack of organisation regarding where to find documents, information and lessons were sometimes entirely cancelled due to staff meetings, COVID and some unauthorised absences of the lecturer.

Staff - Very rude and unorganised. Lecturers would not respond to emails regarding help, but would discipline without taking responsibility on their behalf even though they were in the wrong, no apologies whatsoever. In general, most lecturers had a terrible attitude towards the class, sometimes targeted but mostly to the entire class, leaving the learning environment feeling hostile and making it difficult to reach out for help.

Curriculum - I, and some of my peers were unaware that there would be a business aspect in this course. All peers, when asked: "is anybody interested in starting their own business?" replied with no. This business aspect could have been optional or a lesson but not with assignments considering, in my case, my lecturer constantly flaked on the lessons and would not tell us where to go.

There were also events on our days off (or when people were supposed to be completing their work experience) where we would have to stay home on call for hours listening to career choices which had mostly nothing to do with our course on a few occasions. This time could have been used to complete the colossal amount of work given. Also if you didn't attend, even though the calls were irrelevant, (I sat through them all, so I can confirm this) you would constantly be alerted and move up the disciplinary ladder.

Mental health - when joining this course, everyone was assured that the college was supportive of mental health but did not live up to their word. A particular lecturer would jump to conclusions, humiliate you infront of your peers by pointing you out and isolating you from the class during lessons. They did not pull you aside to talk.
Other lecturers were reluctant to help other students for no reason, this links back to the isolating too as a select group of people would have the lecturer the entire lesson leaving the rest confused, bored and struggling because we don't learn as much as the rest.

Great sharing thoughts and experiences with other students and the teacher 🙂 as a mature student I'm so happy I went back into education and definitely and an incredible place 😊 people just need to be in the learning frame of mind to embrace college/uni 🙂

We had received my girlfriends welcome pack and her bursary forms along with her PPE informing that she has been accepted into a level 2 course in September. I have spoke to her course Lecture and she is saying that she hasn’t been accepted because of her attendance.

Her attendance was low because at the start of the year she didn’t get her timetable for maths and that deducted a lot of her attendance. She also did some hours of work experience but the college took no consideration with helping her with her mental health and everything that she had to go through with work replacement, the course managers was completely unacceptable. I think I did more work then the college with trying to help her with the situations that the college failed to produce.

She had high hopes in September too carry on with a new experience at the college but the college failed to help her and gave her wrong information.

Very good education. My autistic daughter is doing the Animal Welfare Course. They are caring and supportive.

Very friendly and helpful. The college is in a beautiful surroundings

My experience was great. The tutors cared for us and were so helpful. I was studying Level 2 Professional Bakery year 2018/2019. I had all the support I needed. Even for personal issues. I would definitely recommend. The college is beautiful , not to forget . Honestly I had such a lovely time there. My tutors were Clare, Steve and Katie, forgive me if I have not mention someone else but all of you are great and I miss you.

Overall alright college. I'm on the extended animal management course and the content is fun; however I had to buy PPE for a subject I never wanted to do, which is farm. (farm was sprung upon us in the second year, and out of the streams of modules, all contained it).
Lecturers don't really take you seriously most the time, and are awful at dealing with discrimination.
My friend group in particular and others have been the subject to homophobia and transphobia, and its not very well dealt with. Our lecturers act as if it is just name calling, not actual discrimination and verbal hate crime. We frequently get shut down and told to 'see their point of view'. So unless your good at fighting back homophobes or just ignoring their remarks, I wouldn't recommend.
I don't believe it's an issue with the college per say, just how it's ran and how lecturers are trained at dealing with these matters.
If your thinking of attending this college, take what they tell you with a pinch of salt, as the work load is seriously played down, and your not given much insight for the first year.

I have reviewed my own review as my matter was dealt with swiftly.

Had quite a few issues with Moulton but in general it is a good college. A few improvements by a few staff and it would be very good.