University of Bristol — Attraction in Bristol

I had to leave my MA Law course.The main problem was the way it was introduced to frist-time law students it was driven by academic acceleration, fast talking and many students were complaining about how the law course was structured. I felt like I was been taught by a fast-talking auctioneer at the start of the introduction leaveing the entire classroom confused to what was happening. Everything was put online expecting frist-time law students to understand complex legal concepts at the very start of the course. I felt the law course was deilberatelty rushed aganist time for some reason leaveing a lot of students disorientated. I remember at least several students asking the one of the two professors to stop talking so fast that they could not understand him at all. I just remember one professor going on about how great he was as a barrister while talking about his love for Boris Johnson on stage??? The other professor was allways arguing a on about how he hated Brexit all the time. The introduction to MA Law was like ChuckleVision at the start I had no clue what was happening in the frist couple of weeks of public law. Students were never shown how to use Blackboard from the start either as a person with dyslexia I found it hard to understand how to use this system without begin shown by a member of staff. Many students were even complaining that it was rather difficult to find the coversheet. Nevertheless, when I finally found the coversheet I felt that the coversheet was hidden behind a digtial wall of information. One student on the course even complained that it had taken him at least 15 minutes to find the coversheet found on the Blackboard system. I found this digital tool known as 'Blackboard' very exasperating to use. I have used other student digital systems such as Canvas, which I personally found way more unchallenging than Blackboard.

However, the students at Bristol were more helpful in finding rooms they were more than happly to show me where the most of the rooms were located. The Bristol App used to check-into one's classes was also malfunctioning on a daily level I started to panic for the first couple of weeks due to the system not picking up that I was registered as a student at Bristol. This gave me a lot of panic attacks when it failed to register my existence. Self-promotion was also identified as most of the reading materials were posted online, including blog articles written by the professor teaching us. I mostly like to learn from physical books, not online stuff such as blog articles written in cryptic legal language. There were only three physical books you could take out from the Bristol library, but the supply was limited. Law students are told to go do their IRAC model. The only trick is that the model on how to framework this model is missing. Law students are instructed to utilise the IRAC model; however, the reading material on how to apply this IRAC model is missing. Where are the books or journals? I asked a professor for help during contact law office hours and said, "I know how to apply cases from the reading to the rule and application." "But how do I frame them into the IRAC model?" The response was, "Just do your IRA thing, IRA, do your IRA one." Was this a trope about my Irish nationality? IRA?

I asked for help due to my dyslexia requirements at the start of September. However, it arrived via Zoom in November. I asked for an in-person, one-to-one interaction with my dyslexia tutor. Sadly, most of the legal concepts and law cases just passed over my head by the time it arrived. I did try my best to keep up with the work, though. It was like trying to climb up a Sisyphean mountain for weeks and weeks while trying to find support for my dyslexia, going back and forth to the disability office with only two people sitting in an almost empty office. It's not easy having learning disabilities. It's also not easy dealing with staff members with nasty attitudes.

Just use ChatGPT to write your essays, said the learning...

Did a environmental managment masters here as a mature student. Loved the taught elements and field trips were very good. The variety of industry guest lecturers was impressive and really could not have been any better. Where things became unstuck was the patchy support for non residential students who spread the course over number of years, timetabled events such as dissertation work shops were missed, with fairly disasterrous consequnces (thesis scored sub 40% on two occassions), course introduced me to reflective learning logs which are a very good idea and vastly increased my accemdemic confidence, however, as writing style is so important in the thesis these logs may have encouraged me in to a writing format unsuitable for academia.

Luckily escaped with a PGD so not a complete waste of £X,000 and 3 years!

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Good - Phillipa (prompt on email), Dr Feest (best teacher ), Dr McKendry (great teacher), Nicola (made EMS interesting!) , Dr Davis (loved talking about mars).

Not so Good - Dr Howden - More effort needed. Who must have known / failed to notice my dissertation was unsuitable when he read the title "Factors that may effect the use of cob" a poor & and ignorant choice on my part. Some of advice would have not gone amiss, to divert me from persuing a very broad and poorly...

Treatment and care during the day was brilliant. Lovely staff, clean building and facilities, even the food wasn't too bad. What gets the two stars is complete lack of communication. At 7pm I was informed I would be going home "soon" but there were just two other patients to see before that could be done, fine. These two patients were still being seen when I discharged myself over 5 hours later having had to wait without any information at all about what might happen or if I would be seen to go home. For people that rely on communication for theirs jobs to work well, you would have thought that communicating with patients who have been told they will go home "soon" would at least cross their minds instead of letting patients become frustrated and to be left feeling completely ignored. No one could offer me a satisfactory answer that makes it acceptable to leave people for that length of time with no information. Had I stayed I had the distinct impression I would have been there another 24hours. Such a shame that something so simple, that could have been easily alleviated, ruined...