Student review [#15623] for Drama and Performance
at University of Lincoln

The course itself was okay. Tutors were okay, some were very good and made the experience a much better one. Some great ones were sacked for poor reasons. there were backroom politics which in turn did interfere with many students studies. Some module tutors own private lives interfered with their teaching and so also affected us.
My own personal tutor, who also became my module tutor for one of my favourite most successful modules, was quite the embodiment of the course and the university experience as a whole. He had a good mantra that you would get as much out of the university experience as you put in, and it rang true.
If you did not throw yourself into your studies it would show, if you felt disconnected with your work, particularly the practical work, it would definitely show. You needed to put the effort in, as you were marked on your effort, and what you gave to your group. your ability to explain you work and why you did things was important to your success, you really had to understand what you are doing. This overall gave you a better understanding so it was benefiting you, and made your experience feel more rewarding, and like you were actually learning and honing a new skill, some additional knowledge or suddenly having aspirations for a new craft or career path.
The other people on the course came in bunches. There were the high school girls that are somehow still on the playground making others feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. As it was a drama course you also had the Drama school luvvies who thought that they were at RADA or something in that nature. It’s admirable but also became quite obnoxious with the egotism of some members of the course. It was important to maintain a good relationship with your peers as you would be marked on practical work which included your rehearsals and how you developed as a unit and how your piece develops. Having good reliable people in groups had great strengths and you were able to benefit a lot from that.
The SU was awful. They were more interested in business ventures than the benefits of the students. SU prices not subsidised like at other Universities, a terrible record in terms of free speech and their inter-union relations with the students they represent. It is well known and is well documented.
The city has a tense relationship with the university and its students. The local MP does not try and assist the students with the negative effects of the SU. The University continues to grow its estate and claim more areas of the city, much to the upset of the local residents. The university itself also has been poor in its approach to the student’s academic development. They are more focused on the students of the future than the students they are already meant to be serving. Our fees increased in price as a result of a new building to commence 5 years after the completion of our course. The need to grow as a developing academic establishment is great, but at the students cost,

Overall the university has great shortcomings but the experience you have is the one you make, and it was made so much better by my society friends, who kept me sane most of the time and focused right to the end.