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Just visiting there is a waste of time. Went there to apply for a specific course, met so many staffs and everyone said totally different things compared to the other. And are not welcoming people properly. They themselves didn't know anything about the courses. They said just to go here and there without knowing any knowledge about the course. One of the staff told me that I have a very high qualification to study the course and the other told me that I don't have enough qualification to study that.

Avoid this place if you want to do science A levels; teaching standards are awful, which in turn kills all motivation you have towards your subjects, and mental health issues are common among students. Find a better place if you can. Decent infrastructure, with good facilities. However, the library is very noisy, has terrible sitting plan and not enough space for all students to study during certain hours. Also, you are not allowed to use lifts, and will end up tired of climbing four floors to reach to lessons every day of your year. If you are looking for a place to study and spend two years seriously focusing on your subjects, it will be very difficult for you to do it, due to lack of silent rooms and overcrowded places in general. (Can only speak from an A level student perspective)

This places is beautiful and there are very wonderful teachers.

AVOID THIS PLACE LIKE FIRE - THEY WILL ROB YOU! I've had the worst experience at reading college - I've started AAT course back in September, but unfortunately our teacher wasn't actually a teacher, rather somebody whom went to AAT course themselves and wanted to become a teacher... maybe this wouldn't be a problem if not the fact that the teacher spoken very broken english and could not explain stuff very well. Having raised the issue numerous times (with other class members) with a senior member of stuff and having seen nothing being done, I decided to drop out due to the stress the teacher was causing me; back in beginning of February I have raised the issue with the management of the college and made official complaint, to which I was told there will be an investigation which will hear the outcome of after 12 days... Mr. P. Emberlin did not come back to me until after nearly 4 months of my initial complaint, despite my many attempts to try and contact him (in fact, even my employer had reach out to Mr. Emberlin). Mr. Emberlin claimed he tried to call me but the number he said he was using, was my old number despite me giving him a new number for me when I initially made complaint. The moment he responded to my emails was when I said I would make a complaint on gov.uk website. Honestly, this was the worst experience with an education system in my life. Wouldn't recommend this college to anyone (not for a professional course anyway)!

Love the staff except simmin she is rude and racist against me and thought my disability was not true and made fun of me and my nan

[significantly edited review]: Mostly good. Great art teacher. Good airy, pleasant building on the whole. Appears to be great for disabled and mentally-impaired students (there are a lot at this college), so a lot of very caring and patient teachers and support staff.) Poor tables and seating in some classrooms (think 1980s Secondary School standard.) Great seating, computers and equipment in others. Why the inconsistency in quality? Art seems an afterthought for the college in terms of the quality and comfort of the main art room. Lack of funding and modern and cutting-edge equipment lets the college down quite badly in some respects. There's not even so much as an A1 or A2 colour or mono printer on site for students to use (I had this 16 years ago at another college.) Reception is also rather disappointing at times. Nowhere is perfect, but this appears to be a low to mid-budget 20th Century college trying to fulfil the needs of 21st Century students. If you wish to use Apple Macs, though, it is very good.

You paying 1 year in advance for course and then you loose opportunity to get a few jobs because they dont bother to send certificate. You have to waste your time just to find out what is going now . College its a joke and they don't care about students

For starters, I knew there was going to be issues at this College. I applied online for the Access to HE Legal Professions and the application process was a joke. Admissions behaviour was not up to standards. Lets add on the lac of communication and organisation for example, admissions would edit my email address and this caused issues for the to send me assessment links. Before taking the assessment for Access online, I was told a level 3 was suitable for me due to qualifications and previous industry experience. This was mislead information due to the fact I had submitted my assessment on the 22nd March 2021, I had to wait 4 weeks due to the pandemic however, further delays were caused and I was waiting a further weeks. By the time I had received my results for the Access assessment, I had already been accepted at another College for September 2021. It seems these so called delays is to do with the pandemic. Lets blame everything about the pandemic. Other College's I know are running at full capacity and they do not use a pandemic as an excuse. Complete joke. I do want to speak to your CEO.

I had a few business related meetings at the college and as i was waiting at reception i could see and hear how one of the receptionists was behaving. Rude and abrupt with everyone, particularly students asking questions. I hope someone will read this and monitor their attitude and sack people if needed. I'd never recommend anyone this place of they are to be talked to like that.

Joined in September 2020 and the start didn't go as well as it should. Obviously due to the pandemic and getting used to it. But I have enjoyed it with the teachers I have currently and do feel a future at being at Reading college. The only downside is that my class is on the top floor and we have to climb alot of stairs and at the end our legs literally get tired. We pretty much burn more calories climbing those stairs 3 times than running laps around the park in the morning.