Has anyone studied at southbank institute of technology?

I start in the mid year intake, I'm going to complete a diploma in nursing, full tome.

Has anyone else studied here? What was your experience like? The facilities? Teachers?

Just trying to get a feel before I start on 12 July :-)

TIA!

I am not currently enrolled, but I have been and have also supervised their students on placement. My experience has been that there is very little support from teachers, and to be honest i have no idea why any of the teachers are even there. They do the face to face classes, and mark assignments, I guess, but outside that, there is nothing. Even trying to contact a specific teacher can take a week of message bank messages, emails and faxes.

But that's not in Nursing.

Thanks for your input Audax. Honestly I'm not too fussed on teacher support - if they deliver the classes well and are there to answer questions during that time, I'm happy with that!
Can I ask what field you assist in? Just being nosey :-)

I did (read: tried to do) my cert 3 in childrens services through them, it was a traineeship and was done entirely by corrospondance (sp?). So a bit different, but I had a very similar experience to the pp. The teacher was supposed to come out once a month to collect my assessments and go through the next module with me but over a 12month period I saw her twice. Anytime I tried to call I got the message bank and she never called back.
Because of that I had trouble getting another traineeship, apparently it was my fault I didn't finish enough modules in the 12 months and didn't meet the deadlines set out in the initial meeting.

Good luck with it, I hope you have a better experience than I did.

Ouch Heather, that really sucks!!!

Oops, I read your post wrong, I did it through TAFE. :redface: sorry.

It is tafe, it's just called institute of technology :-) I think once upon a time it was just Southbank Tafe...

They don't like you calling it TAFE. They're trying to move away from that, and seem to somehow think that makes them classier, more exclusive, and therefore more attractive to international students, who pay better money than us plebs and don't know the difference when the teachers fairly well ignore them through their entire course.

I'm also involved in Children's Services. I was enrolled in an Advanced Diploma there but have pulled out due to the lack of support - I am not giving them my money and getting nothing in return except a bundle of papers they have bought from another institute. I have supervised 5 of their students, and the level of support from staff (for me or for the student) has been dismal for every single one. One of them wasn't even visited by a teacher, and the institute had no plans to send anyone out to see her, until I contacted the head of school and kicked up a fuss. Not really fair for the student - if I'd been a cow and wanted to fail her, I could have, and she wouldn't have been able to do anything about it, because the tafe wouldn't have known any different.

Oh so it's the same place then. I feel like less of an idiot now. Lol.

Dear Ashlee

hi.im having intake at july at tafe southbank too..hope to see u soon..

Oh really Jess, what course are you going to study?

Dear ash

im having diploma of nursing full time too same course with you..
by the way im an international student..im a Malaysia chinese..just looking for some information about the college and found u thread here..
Hope that we will enjoy the hold course..lol

I will see you at the orientation next week. If you choose timetable A we will be having classes together :-)

Dear ash
you already choose the time table?
i try to pop up at the college to ask for it but they told me i cant have the time table until the course orientation..
can u pls tell me more about it?
thanks

When I got my online enrollment pack, the timetable was attached. We get to choose which timetable we want at orientation on Tuesday, there are 4 to choose from.

Dear Ash

thanks for your information.but i think international student dont get to choose the time table e.any way c u soon.i really appreciate your help e..thanks so much

Dear Ash

would u mind to sand me the the hold time table u got??i mean the 4 choices of the them..i will really appreciate for that.. thanks