Kingston Reviews

Waiting for hours with the CTU empty

Unacceptable experience terrible staff misleading information DO NOT APPLY THERE AND WASTE YOUR MONEY

A corrupt institution

My 11years old son and I were waiting to be seen for more than 3hs at the Kingston hospital What was shocking was that they were all talking and laughing while we were waiting in the waiting area I asked twice and they said they were very busy and made me feel like I was bothering them and impatient Very sad to be treated like that at the health sistema where we pay so much taxes

Don t waste your time here

A corrupt institution They don t support students and when complaints are raised about poor student support they intimidate you or threaten to withdraw Their complaint procedures are flawed The teaching is ridiculous and half of the lectures seem clueless to what they are teaching leaving students more confused Personal tutor I had always tried to drag me down at every opportunity they had Always pointing out my weaknesses yet provides no advice on how to improve

Waste of time the courses at business

Overall a poor university experience I highly recommend NOT going unless you want to be scammed and have your money wasted This university operates as a business They do not care about their students and you will be disappointed Staff and classes are hit or miss personal tutors don t reply to emails students are given very little support and the other students here are anti-social unless you are already in their group You won t have much of a social life The halls and bus system are abysmal Take a workshop class if you have the chance lectures are pretty boring and depends upon staff There aren t many opportunities for employment or internships either There s also a healthy dose of favouritism and occasional nepotism here Complaints don t work either The university is in debt and will do whatever it can to take your money and improve its ranking Best to look elsewhere

Ku ukvi sponsor license must get cancelled for the welfare of England and stop torture on international students

Waste of time the courses at business are way too theoretical and out of touch with realityThe admission process is very poor and the back office unhelpful

Horrible experience

They have non sense staff and i think we should report them to home office as they force students to travel United Kingdom without student visa and once they arrive then they force them to withdraw the visa application or they threat to cancel their admission i have requested home office and file a complaint in the home office for the cancellation of their sponsor license as their authorisation officer of KU UKVI is non sense and illiterate guy who should be sacked as thousands of students suffer due to his stupidity I request all students to hold a protest for the cancellation of their sponsor license and home office should audit all the files and take cognigance of all students who are tortured due to the illiterate and stupid authorisation officer of UKVI team Their sponsor license should be cancelled at any cost to stop the illegal immigration practices As many students are victims of their wrong actions because their staff does not have legal sense They need to be thorougly audited I am dam sure they didn t adhere to the sponsor license training instructions and implementing their own unethical practices

How did this university get a gold

How did this university get a gold standard They are unorganised keep changing timetables they keep putting me on a different course than the actual course I applied for and when I email about it they keep acting like they do not know what I am talking about I have to involve external university forum to help sort this No signal in the university building The bus to get to the university from the station is awful you have to wait 1hour no university bus from the station Library area look like a play school No tfl student card it is awful I wish I read the reviews before I applied I would not have applied to this awful university

NO SUPPORT FOR DEAF STUDENTS AT KINGSTON

I first applied to study Electrical Electronic Engineering at Kingston Polytechnic now Kingston Unviersity through PCAS On the PCAS application form I had put down the schools I had been to I then got a letter from a Dr Jeremy Ingham who was the dean in the School Of Electrical Electronic Engineering at Kingston Polytechinc In his letter he said that he too had a deaf son who also went to one of the schools I had been to I knew his son who was one of the prefects in the sixth form at the school He had a really bad acne problem He was rather very plain and ugly not very handsome-looking Which encouraged me and made me feel positive So an interview was arranged One very early November morning 1989 I went down to Kingston Upon Thames in Surrey for the interview with Dr Ingham I was very excited and looking forward to the interview I arrived there when everyone was still in bed the street lights were on and it was still dark But in the interview I just couldn t understand anything he said He was very hard to lipread I pretended to understand everything he said because I didn t want to seem stupid My heart sank a bit He did not even try to communicate with me in sign language at all despite having a deaf son Then he took me on a tour of the polytechnic and at the conclusion of the interview he said that his son David was living somewhere in Esher Surrey Jerry had this big scale map of Surrey behind his chair in his office So when the offers came round in August 1990 I just wasn t sure if Kingston was the right place for me I was getting cold feet because there seemed to be no support services in place for deaf students at all and Jerry never said anything about support services for deaf students I didn t just want a repeat of the first year I spent at college after leaving school where I learned absolutely nothing at all because the college had no support services in place for deaf students at all So on the PCAS replly slip I put a X in the DECLINE box put the slip in the envelope and sealed it Left the envelope on the kitchen table for either mum or bruv to post it Mum managed to steam the envelope open she saw what I had put she put Tipp-ex on the X in the DECLINE box and put a tick in the ACCEPT box without asking me why I had turned down the offer of a place at Kingston and asking me what I wanted to do instead she showed me what she did before she put the slip back into the envelope and resealed it So in September 1990 I started at Kingston Polytechnic In November 1990 2 months later stopped going to classes and dropped out of the course No-one bothered to chase me to ask me why I had stopped going to classes I just was not getting any spport at all I then started watching Neighbours the Aussie soap one day because I was bored Then mum and I had a meeting with Dr Jerry Ingham in his office there in May 1991 He then asked why I hadn t met with my personal tutor Which surprised me and shocked me because none of the tutors on the course ever bothered to approach me to explain to me that he would be my personal tutor and I had no idea who I was supposed to be meeting with While I was on the Electrical Electronic Engineering course at Kingston I became friendly with two of the students who were also on the same course too and one of them happened to be from Portugal I also got this visit from this young man from Derby who was able to communicate with me in sign language which made me very relieved I didn t have to write anything on paper because he had explained that he had learned to sign there because there is a Royal School For The Deaf at Derby so that was how he came to know sign language He said that he was on the Computing course at Kingston I got chatting with the Portuguese student through the computer terminals in the computer labs I liked him he was very friendly and willing to chat with me whereas none of the other students on the E E Eng course would The Portuguese explained that he had applied for a transfer to the Computing course and he got it So the young man from Derby and the Portuguese student got me thinking about getting a transfer to the Computing course at Kingston So I then asked Dr Jerry Ingham for a transfer to the Computing course Instead of arranging a transfer to the computing course he immediately dropped me from the E E Eng course Why When I said to the Portuguese student that Jerry had dropped me from the course instead of putthing thorugh a transfer to the computing course he the Portuguese student said that the polytechnic probably needed his EU ERASMUS grant which allowed EU students to study at UK universities more than they needed my LEA money and I agreed with him I left Kingston after the May 1991 interview with Jerry and I was very glad to leave because I hated the whole place

I had a fantastic time at Kingston

I had a fantastic time at Kingston University 1997-2000 The 1st year halls were great fun and the surrounding town was lovely safe and had good nightlife I made full use of the cutting edge computer resources and tutoring they provided us with which had a direct impact on my earning potential in later careers