Nursing Course at UCLan

Cannot recommend enough. So glad I chose this university. The lecturers are brilliant - good at lecturing, know their subject area well, and are always willing to offer support including via email and their personal twitter accounts. The facilities are very good - skills labs have a range of equipment to use and it's all good quality and up to date. There's always extra time given to attend further drop in sessions if a skill hasn't sunk in properly during the intiial lesson. Regarding placement, UCLan are the first university to offer a new sort of support system which has worked extremely well and has contributed to a decrease in students dropping out from the course. This system is potentially being rolled out in other universities leading from the success at UCLan.

I've read a couple of the other reviews and to be quite honest I'm shocked. Our pass rate of assignments and exams is quite high, and the complaints about 'tutors wanting to fail students' is quite frankly untrue and I don't think has any basis except personal feelings.

A couple of things I do think need improving are car parking provision, we often have to arrive 40mins early to secure a parking space, and the size of the nursing cohort. My cohort was a very large group and it sometimes led to us not feeling there was enough time for us.