Coleg y Cymoedd

My experience here is amazing. I have amazing support from all tutors

Was very good. Thoroughly enjoyed myself and met loads of great people Coleg y cymoedd accommodates extremely well for staff and pupils Everything was great, completely clean and nice environment The course was everything I expected. The tutors were amazing It was good, good food and shopping. And all facilities local that were needed

Amazing. Tutors are great, well trained. My class is so easy going, I'm loving my units. Especially marketing, events and accounting. Could ask for a better place to be.

Very good, especially the nights in Steinbeck&Shaw!! Cocktails always on point with a great setting! I do not live in all's/accommodation Brilliant! All rooms very airy spacious, always something great going on!! The lectures are very useful and mostly enjoyable, I love the course as it's been able to introduce me to new things that I had never considered previously Very nice pleasant, always got loads going on with amazing places to eat/drink/learn

When I first started collage it was fun and I enjoyed all the activities.I don't stay there is go home.Very good.I enjoyed learning about my coure and meeting more friends and class mates.It's no in the city.Study before the courise starts and make sure you have clients

Weird at first but once I understood where I was and what was happening I got into it. I made friendships, understood my surroundings and realised what life would be like.

Coleg y Cymoedd is a great college to study with, they work with you to achieve your best, and take great care in your wellbeing and health. I settled in easily and don’t want to leave. They continue to help me learn and further myself for my future.

The campus I study at is at Ystrad Mynach. The facilities are aging, and need to be renovated/renewed. Though the library is up to date and provides as a great place to read, learn, relax and research. The staff are lovely and the surroundings are comfortable too. My classroom in particular is run down and aging, our computers are not connected to the internet and the college refuse to do so.

My course is a great stepping stone to the Media/Arts industry, it gives students of disadvantage a change to understand college life and learn skills to better their futures. My tutor is easygoing and helpful, and is under appreciated by our class.

Our campus is based outside of the city, and in more of a rural town. Life here is okay, but I don’t usually leave campus. A problem that surrounds the outer town is drugs, our campus has been named the ‘Drugs Campus’. Something which the campus is trying to resolve.

Upon joining I found that I probably won’t fit it, everyone seemed different, loud and abrupt. But once I learnt that this course is a ‘stepping-stone course’ for the disadvantaged - I took everything into consideration. On the course you learn about creating animations and short films, performing and creating artwork. A huge range to better yourself in your field of study. Personally I joined for creating short films, as I hope to become an Actor/director in the future.

It's very nice, big change and a big difference and a good impact on my life

So I did the course in Aberdare which is a nice modern building with easy access to the town centre to buy food, which is important since the on site cafe is overly expensive for what they serve. The lifts often feel like you'll get stuck in them which made me not want to use them and would instead walk up the stairs despite issues with one of my hips.
The course team are a mixed bag., with some being amazing and others not understanding what they were meant to be teaching us including for a compulsory unit which caused the group of us lots of stress in the last couple of weeks before the assessments. The course tutor doesn't know what he's doing and would often not do things properly which led to us being confused with what he wanted us to do, and would pull due dates out of thin air for all of our assignments which he only did in yr2 for some reason. The head of school is a chill dude, only crossed paths a few times but we crossed paths on the stairs once between two sessions of an assessment and he asked how it was going.
The campus (non course) staff are really nice people, with specific mention to the wellbeing team for making me want to stay at the college despite how bad the course was (and yes if you see this I still think you're a chicken until I see a video of you in that cage, yk who you are).
Overall, I would recommend the campus however some of the computing team are not good at teaching and caused enough stress that we would regularly talk about wanting to drop out and would be happy whenever a specific member of staff cancelled lessons