Westminster University www.wmin.ac.uk

I recently graduated from an MA in Personnel and Development. I am severly not impressed with anything the university had to offer.

The course cost me in total £12,000.00. In total I had about 150 teaching hours over the 2 years. It should have been almost double.

I finished this course in January 2012. They have lost my certificate and demanding that I pay for my own copy. I have to pay for postage on everything, including posting my marked work, which was consistently late.

There was consistently not enough exam papers, so students were kept waiting over an hour to start the exams.

The teaching syllabus was out of date, not applicable for current HR issues that all the students were expereinceing at work. The core modules were not relevant.

The best thing about the course was meeting other students.

Over priced irrelevant, waste of money and of time. Don't go to Westminster University.

I studied at the University of Westminster, in Marylebone during 2005- 2008. Overall it was a good experience, as I made many great friends, who I'm still in touch with today. However after completing my Architectural degree, I found it difficult to find employment due to the recession. I do feel that the university could have done more to help many students find work, as most didn't continue on to do their Diploma's. Many decided to study other courses, or find employment in different fields. The Architectural course itself was ok. There was always a lack of printers, with many not working, and being an architectural student close to a deadline, this is the worst news you could hear. I even saw a list of more then 100 people waiting for one printer, with the deadline close approaching. Thinking about it, I'm glad those days are over, but I do miss the times I had with my friends, even if we didn't get much time to unwind and relax.

I have just graduated and I am very happy with the experience I have had there. I already miss some lecturers and other members of staff. I also wanted to say that there is a person who is criticising the unis and writing the same long negative comment for the westminster uni and london metropolitan uni. I have been to London Met uni and it looked nice, the staff very helpful. To sum up, do not listen to other people's opinions, read it, but go to the uni and check it yourself before accepting the place to any uni. The opinion is subjective. I am thinking to do masters at westminster because i loved it so much. I have found many friends there and some that I hope are for life. Good luck guys.

Down the Marylebone Road in London England is a university. I had been driving down this road for 15 years beforehand, and I had not noticed Westminster University until I decided to apply to go there during my access to university course. As I was living close by in Central London, it seemed ideal, so I did not even bother going to an interview at Hertfordshire University, as it was a waste of the train fare to even turn up, I thought. I went and had a look around another London university at Roehampton however, just to have a look to see. It was a catholic university, so it was not really for me. As I received an automatic acceptance for UNL that was good enough for me, I was going there!

Another student on my access course went there and she is now a teacher. It was looked down on by some students on the access course. I had no idea why at the time. One wanted to go to King's and was put out by how snooty they were there at her interview. The pot calling kettle back comes to mind.

I found out why it was rated so low by the snooty. They say it is because it was cheap; so it was full of foreigners. Otherwise it was full of local people like me, but that did not matter to me, as there were also a very high percentage of mature students and minorities!

The courses are of course as good as most marked by Oxford University, so empirical pragmatism is praised and they do not like phenomenology. The teachers all seem overly busy, and you need to make an appointment to speak to one. My Tutor was such a busy man it was difficult to see him. His feedback, although small was invaluable in helping me complete my dissertation on whether 'Free Will was Compatible with the truth of determinism'.

I left there six years ago now, but I have continued studies, as it was of a general interest to me anyway as a personal search for enlightenment. It was not a way into a job, as has been said many times by a philosophy major, and it is a one way trip to the dole queue. Being over 40, employers are not interested in me joining there graduate training programs. I spoke to one who thought it was a joke university. So only go to university if you're generally interested in a subject, as it seems nihilism is promoted.

Back to the anonymous buildings. They are a mix of prefab 60's. Some are very old, and some are new. They are all mixed up on the same site. The IT facilities were first rate, and had just been built when I was there in 2000. I studied English and Philosophy, which was surprisingly interesting for me, as I had never though of myself as being a philosophical person previously. On the access course I had done History which I did not like. It seemed I had been a philosopher for 35 years previous to going to University, and I did not even know I was doing it. If you are not interested in the metaphysical scientific world view then do not go. As that is what is promoted. Homelessness, barbarity and mass consumption are the effects of these, so it can be a problem.

As for the facilities; there are a few cafes in the University, and there is also a club / bar. But as it is so near to central London, other facilities and night life is no problem. The local area is a run down area of crime and prostitutes, kebab shops and people selling fags on every street corner.

So overall, the University of North London has promoted my intellectual development by manipulation of its own ideals on to me, even though they were not really compatible with mine, but as they are generally of the world outside, and it is what they are paid to do, you can not blame them. The promotion of nihilism then is expensive however, as it cost me £11000 pounds in student loans and bank overdrafts for them to try to manipulate me into being a nihilist. In some ways it is about success; in others it is about failure.