Cambridge Regional College — Local services in South Cambridgeshire

They say you can't polish a turd but can roll it in glitter and in this instance is 100% true.

As an old student from back in the days when the college was spread out over the centre of Cambridge in horrid buildings and porta cabins and sharing some facilities with the now poly on east road. Teachers were excellent, learning was fun and informative and the student life was good. But now the college has upped and settled on the outskirts in a fantastic looking campus which is well equipped and maintained, however the quality of teaching has deteriorated to an unbelievable low. Back in the days anybody was welcome in any class provided they wished to learn but now that is the opposite and unless you are the class pet or extremely well off to enable the purchase of some of the "required" tech to pass the classes you will fall prey to scorn and in some subjects, sexism of the highest order. The college is now run as a business which is as it should be but to enable to function the college has some very dubious deals going on with some companies, apple being one of them. I had a daughter attending a full time music production course at the new campus, a predominantly male subscribed course and she soon found out that unless you had the face and voice, a women would not cut it and the tutors almost actively ensured these poor girls would be pushed out. The same tutors with there limited knowledge on the subject then pushed the groups into projects and music styles that only the tutors wanted and thus not allowing full creativity to flourish and towards the end of the course things were just reduced to what appeared to be music practise with no furthering of skills, new or old. The teaching regarding technology was at the poorest level and was limited to that which could only be found on a mac with the view that pc's were similar and the students could puzzle them out when they encounter any pc based studio setup which in there opinion wouldn't happen often, something which I know after 25 years of electronic music production is utter nonsense. The final nail was after informing students and parents that no one would need to purchase expensive equipment to complete the course at the start of the course, they then changed and informed students 3 months in that unless work was submitted in mac format it wouldn't be accepted and that they would have to complete some items during home learning periods which could only be accessed and completed on a mac book pro and should this be a problem they can purchase these at a favourable discounted price via the college.

All in all, I can say this college has gone downhill over the last 20 years and unless you want to learn some very basic skills like construction or beauty I'd give it a...

The College is not bad but I would give it only 2 stars. Too many improvements should be done in the CELTA course, in a nutshell. Be aware, it is a very stressful course and assessment of your talents and skills is often unfair. Among things to improve I'd suggest the following: Do not hire tutors non-native speakers who know English worse than students. I was asking myself: why should I learn the ropes of the CELTA from a tutor whose demo lesson was a total failure, namely substandard? They permitted a mother of one of the trainees to attend the group lessons where her daughter was having teaching practice. Imagine, due to the disagreement I had with that specific trainee, her mother was repeating "I don't understand" multiple times at my teaching practice lesson. And the woman did everything correctly at her daughter’s lessons. No wonder why! It is not by chance that wise international companies do not allow their employees to hire or be in the same department with their relatives. In Cambridge CELTA they do not respect boundaries. Be aware. The Level of the students we taught was immensely diverse. They included a Beginner level student to classes of Pre-Intermediate level. To make matters worse, there were Pre-Intermediate students in the Upper Intermediate group. This is totally unprofessional! Another point of unprofessionalism was from a non native "tutor" when she allowed certain trainees to speak against me behind my back on Assignment 2. Moreover, she was never interested in my opinion about the things which were debatable and took the side of the gossipers. I kept everything peaceful, but decided that the public must know who they will be taught by.

Such courses like the CELTA must be taught only by those who possess not less than a Master's degree in the English language specifically. There were so many errors made by that non native that it will take a lot of time to describe all that.

To cut a long story short, if you have a choice, do not study the CELTA in Cambridge Regional College. And be very nosy at who particularly will teach you at a specific course. As far as I am concerned, there is only one tutor who should be given credit and his name is Tom. He was the only professional and dedicated Tutor in...

Some of the best time I've spent in education was here. Great enthusiastic tutors with huge and varied facilities. I studied Art Foundation here for one year and cost me a few hundred pounds, although it was more than worth it for the people I met and the experience I got. For the price I played I reckon I got a bargain! I mean where else can you be using charcoal to draw a life model on one day to welding mild steel the next for that amount of money. I mean welding courses are a few hundred pounds by themselves! The first two weeks you spend on 'rotation' between Fine Art, Graphics, Media, 3D/Sculpture, Textiles and Printing. After that process you've met everyone on your course and are reviewed on your progress in each category and you and your tutors then reach a decision on which of the 'rotations' you made the most pomising progress. For me that choice was 3D/Sculpture. The rest of the year was spent meeting assignments set to challenge you in use of materials, whilst simultaneously using this body of work to form a portfolio of work in which to use to apply for university. Before long you'll have more than enough portfolio work without realising it. And as a result of me going here I am currently studying at university in my 3rd year of a BA in Architecture. Others that I know that have attended here have also gone on to prestigious institutions such as Cambridge University as well as Slade School of Art, some of which couldn't believe that that was even possible when...