The curriculum is stale and lacking passion. Lecturers would often upload years-old recorded lectures instead of up-to-date lectures. The assignments and tasks were repetitive and lacked creativity. By the end of each course, I felt as if I hadn’t taken away any useful or valuable information.

I personally did not enjoy the courses I chose to take in my first year and I found most of the dull and uninteresting, the material seemed as if it was used year after year and the lecturers for the most part were alright but not amazing, apart from one of my psychology lecturers whom was amazing it was my favourite paper as he wrote the lectures the day of or the day prior to the lecture which meant they were always relevant to the current day. The overall university staff were not very helpful in regards to degree and career planning once you were done with your first year and a few of my friends were told that the career planning staff were just for new students and can not help them as they had finished their first year.

VUW is an institution that knows what its students need and how to provide those services. With friendly and supportive staff, inclusive services, a welcoming atmosphere and courses that are both challenging and empowering, it has been an absolute pleasure to study at VUW. It is one of the few educational institutions that doesn’t just teach what you need to know to pass their classes but teaches you how to learn and continue to apply your skills and knowledge throughout your studies. Although no institute is ever perfect, VUW certainly sets a high standard for education in general and has left a positive and lasting impact on me.

I greatly enjoy about the university the standard of lecturing of many of the lecturers- Maamari Stephens and Philip Fountain are great examples. What I dislike is that you can have a very poor course experience and there are little means of holding account to the institution even through VUWSA (the student justice body).

I chose Victoria University for the city Wellington. Wellington was close to the NZ parliament and government agencies. I loved the arts culture of Wellington. Victoria University is a good university but I am unsure what makes it unique from other universities. The politics and criminology courses are limited. Furthurmore, online courses make it diffcult to engage with lectures