South Essex College High Street, Grays RM17 6TF

"First time I visited the college today, found the blonde hair receptionist with the classes quite rude, unprofessional and unorganized. Had no knowledge on Class commences and course times, no knowledge of teachers/lecturers in the premises. Was the most experienced and best qualified for my Door supervisor course despite being excused of plagiarism which cost me a job in London with potential manager opportunity waiting for me. This college still has the cheek to email me. After the humiliation they gave me."

"My son has completed his level 2 and started his level 3 course here and loves it. He is doing well and has received good grades so far."

"Don't bother to attend this college one year on and my son-in-law is still waiting for his certificate and he funded the course himself. Most of the Level 3 Electricians course was self taught so if you are unsure you will have to work it out for yourself. Once enrolled you are on your own."

"Completed AAT Level 2 and Level 3 here at Thurrock. College facilities were excellent (apart from the chairs in each classroom as almost half of them were broken in some way - guess that is what happens when you buy cheap chairs). My classes were in the evenings, and unfortunately, some of the classrooms were covered in litter, bins overflowing with fast food rubbish, and college work handouts strewn around. In regards to my teachers, they were both very knowledgeable and helpful in Year 2. Both teachers had very different teaching techniques, but both went out of their way to help when I needed it. In Year 3 I had a few different teachers as each teacher specialised in different aspects of Accountancy teaching. I was the first of the bunch to sit the AQ2016 syllabus, and unfortunately, the synoptic, theough no fault of the college, was a complete train crash as AAT had not been organised properly. However, I passed level 2 (as this was AQ2013, you were deemed either competent or not). Level 3, with the introduction of AQ2016, meant you good finish with a pass, merit or distinction. With the help of the tutors, o was able to achieve a distinction. Unfortunately, the college chose to only hold evening classes for Level 4 at Southend college, which was not practical for me to attend, so I completed Level 4 at Havering College. Once again, special thanks to my teachers at Thurrock, Denise and Terry."

"First year was great, We had an amazing set of teachers, Second years was... Bareable some of the teachers left and were replaced with average teachers, Third year was just unbareable, none of the teachers we had cared about us as people like the first year did, despite being 18-19 years old we were taught like kids, Not to mention being taught the exact same thing we was taught both years before (A teacher also admitted). Our maths teacher was single handedly the reason 3 students left the college but he's a manager so noone can really complain because the complaint would go straight to him. And the thing that tops it all of was that we was forced to apply for jobs using "my work search", the site would not let you change the email on the cv so as a result when you got responses it would have went to our college email, and now I'm no longer at college they have complety blocked the email and stopped me from being able to use it, this is where all my employment information, passwords and payslips have gone to and now I'm unable to access it, what a stupid move by the IT department to force people to use college emails to apply for jobs, but then locks the same email once that student moves on to employment, A new system is needed."