Tresham College Kettering Campus Windmill Avenue, Kettering NN15 6ER

"Do not like a tutor who taught Business level 2, I think her name was Marion. I felt like she was not trying to include me in the class at all just because my English was not very good at the time. One time I took the wrong bus and went to a completely different place, hence was late for her class. I explained it to her but she did not care. Instead, she asked me to sit outside and talk to a different tutor. I do not understand how staff like this can be teaching? She seemed friendly initially but it didn't take long to realise she was not! That was awful. But Esol teachers are friendly."

"Great experience. Admin bit of a nightmare, kept sending me in a loop, so I went and asked at reception. Really great help from Mel, who got me re-enrolled in 10 mins. Thanks Mel!"

"If I could put a zero I would. Absolutely shocking. The turnover of staff this year for the Access to HE: Health Professions is unreal. Physics: Has been awful. The lecturer left at Christmas and we missed a couple of lessons before the new lecturer came in. He could not teach and had constant mistakes on his power points. And his grasp on the material was shaky. When asked to explain more in depth his answer was "I don't know, you'll have to google that". He lasted all of three weeks before leaving with immediate effect. Once again leaving us without a teacher and more missing lessons. The next lecturer came and raced through the second assignment before moving onto the content for the third assignment. After the content was complete we were left with no more lessons as the teacher had "no obligation" provide us with anymore. She was only contracted out from the Corby campus because they couldn't find anybody else. We were told to email her if we had any issues. Which is all very well and good if she didn't take almost a week to reply as we were all on a tight deadline. We hadn't heard from her even before we handed in our last assignment. Not acknowledging that she had received, marked or passed the assignment to be internally verified. It wasn't until the day that all the work was being signed off did we get our mark from tutor who internally verified the work. Biology: not much to say. It was taught well but the teacher left suddenly. This teacher was also responsible for study skills Study skills: we were told all through the course that we were ahead. It got to the point where we were told if we didn't need help with assignments or research projects that we didn't need to go in. As we were all up to date with the study skills. When he left he emailed us all with the outstanding study skills (there were still some missing). There were a couple of lessons missed as there was no tutor. The study skills tutor is also responsible with anything to so with the research projects. So everything was quite tight at the end. Also just a week before signing off our folders it was found that the ethics module had been delivered to the health students but not the psychology or physics. We all got an email with what we needed to do and if we needed help to make an appointment with a tutor. But not much else. I received only 3 merits and the rest distinctions and my university requires 45 distinctions. This is due to the missing lessons and an incompetent teacher who didn't really know what he was talking about. I ask the college to complain form explaining the circumstances around my 3 merits. Not only was the draft missing a lot of facts it also had poor punctuation. I sent back an email with the changed I would like make and asked the tutor to get back to me to see what she though. And she just blatantly ignored me and sent it off to the university full mistakes because she didn't even think to ask me about it. I've now had to ring up the university and apologise as the email container one sentence a long with my name. No UCAS number so they can identity me or what the form was. I have requested they wait until I clear up the mistakes in the original form. Very unhappy as this course and tutors have messed not on me but others around. And now they don't want to clearly state the circumstances of why I achieved the 3 merits. Everything else was distinction level and now the staff Tresham college, part of the Bedford College Group, can't be asked to help me and are hindering my placement at my chosen university by not stating the facts. There is probably more but that is just from the top of my head. I would strongly advise that potential students at Tresham College look for their education elsewhere. And I know a lot of the people on my course would agree with me."

"I was learning at ESOL courses in Wellinghborough,in 2015. This year found that building demolited-don't understand why. In that building-workshop near big college building we where advised that: Dracula is buried in Whitby... ..."

"My experience of Tresham College has been as a prospective employee and I cannot express how dysfunctional and poor that experience was. The college culture is flawed with ladpsidasidcle leaders and low expectations from students and this is fairly reflected throughout their inspection and evident whilst walking around the college. Furthermore, - Communication was poor from administrative staff right through to department leaders - I arrived 30 minutes early and interviewers strolled through reception 10 minutes before interview leaving me with no prep time beforehand. - Told beforehand there would be 14 students for interview lesson and there was 3. - They broke GDPR regulations by leaving student names on work. My advice to Tresham College is to remember that you are also trying to sell yourselves to potential employees not just the other way. The arrogance was overwhelming."