Camosun College Lansdowne Campus — Attraction in Saanich

The campus is lovely and well Maintenance and the staff are helpful and accommodating. The only downfall is when you go into the main entrance entrance to gain direction, the person does not speak French and I witnessed her getting quite rude to a mother and daughter, who were there to take a test for English and there was no accommodations for them. As a result, the person was rudely, telling them that they were going to be late for the other campus and needed to hurry up and when they indicated they did not know where the bus was or how to get there, because they were new to the city, the woman just sort of shut down and was kind of rude. She made no effort to try to locate anybody else on campus. That may speak French. I stepped up and offered to drive them, and as a student, I understand that this was their one chance to obtain entry, and if they missed this test, they would have not been entered into the school. I found it quite rude that this woman’s job was to direct students and newcomers where they need to go and she may know customer service effort, I have worked 50 years in hotel, industry and hospitality, and I felt this was her way of just pretending she did not want to deal with the issue when clearly, her job is to greet and welcome new students There is a great inclusiveness seen on the campus, and there is a great effort clearly by the college to include first nations and other nationalities, I was disappointed a little bit on how little they offer the Indigenous students place to come together. I have seen in other universities they have a Building set up for the indigenous students inclusive when they are away from their nations and here on this campus it is just a small office with no little feeling of indigenous hospitality because of the lack of space. Possibly the college could provide a larger area for the Indigenous students to come together and study, to hold, smudge, and have an area where they feel included other than a small office area. On another note, I am very impressed with the Indigenous, inclusive, wild herb and plant garden that you would almost miss if you did not know how to identify plants. They have a beautiful Elder that comes and walks through there to identify plants for you and if you’re lucky, you will witness some local Wildlife in the...

I feel I was overly corrected, my choice on how to describe the course as I understand the course to be 'Health Care Aide'. It's what other schools list this course to be. I'm sternly corrected with: "You mean Health Care Assisting". (Okay, fine.) Then I'm told the course is all booked up this year and into the next year even. The person on phone sounded put off by me like she was glad to tell me there was no room for me, absolutely nothing from her on what other step to take, what to do like she could care less. I feel like writing a complaint but after reading these reviews, just go elsewhere. It just doesn't make sense to speak to an interested potentiAL student with such a tone. I was polite, asked correct questions. I really...

This school has had a Human Rights complaint filled against it once already for the way the instructors grade its students. The instructors for the nursing and dental hygiene program are brutal. They are supposed to be instructors not your employer. So many egos with these instructors - like they are trying to flex their power. Even the student counselling services have said they see a lot of students from these programs. You just better be able to bite your tounge and do as they say if you want to get through these programs. Don't trust anyone here (instructors, head of department even the ombudperson) - they will throw you under the bus so hard and so fast... you'll develop such bad anxiety or worse! A...