Student review [#51228]
for Popular Music Performance
at British and Irish Institute of Modern Music - BIMM
Bristol, The United Kingdom
2nd year BIMM Manchester
This course is clearly not worth the 9k a year it costs to take it and I would not recommend it to anyone else who may be interested in taking it. Firstly the course content was subpar and was very restrictive in terms of creativity, I believe that independent study from online materials would have covered the same amount and for minimal cost.
Secondly the support and leadership from those above was sorely lacking and I felt hindered by the poor communication over timetable changes and feedback as well as module delivery. This negatively impacted my performance. For example during first year , I was involved in a disagreement with my tutor over theory concepts and my input over this was not considered and this was never resolved in a professional manner and subsequently affected the teacher-student relationship.
I also believe that the culture at Bimm is not centered towards the student, which is definitely a reason to be cautious about taking this course.
Overall I would recommend avoiding investing time and money into this course as most course content can be learned online and the leadership and teaching is definitely not worth 9k