Newcastle College - Rye Hill Campus - Newcastle upon Tyne

nina ward

did my decorating level 1 here from september 2022- June 2023. I had a great time, felt thoroughly supported and felt so comfortable being a female in a male dominated environment. I think the negative view on this college is outdated personally i could not fault it, was genuinely gutted to leave.

Ruby Atkins

My time on level 3 Foundation Art and Design was a nightmare. Tutor Adelin Clarke's inability to remember names, blatant favouritism, and bad attitude created a toxic environment. Treat me differently from other students, and her indifference made me feel isolated and unsupported. She dismissed any complaints made and the course was poorly run and draining. I wouldn't recommend to anyone. 0 Stars if I could.

Libby Hinchliffe

this college is terrible, my boyfriend goes to this school and he has to travel to get there every day using his own money. there has been so many days where college has been called off the morning of! do not send your child to this college, it is so unprofessional and unorganised

Teagan Copley

Wouldnt recommended this college to anyone, would rather go back to high school then go here again. I studied art for my first year and got 0 support and didnt even get my grades back at the end of the year, was bullied and complained to student support multiple times and nothing was done about it. My second year i studied hospitality and catering also had no support especially with my autism, i couldnt work in the bistro front of house because of my social anxiety and sensory issues and when i had breakdowns they told me to have 5 mins outside and then come back, i spoke to many different staff to see if i could be placed somewhere else when i had foh and they told me id be kicked iff the course if i didnt attend. At the end of the year our tutor told us we would be going to flamingo land, he told me if i done a powerpoint for him i could go on the trip which i completed and got my consent forms. The night before the trip he put out a message saying that me and 6 other students would not be attending the trip and instead would be working in kitchens or front of house. The reason i wasnt allowed to go was because of my attendance (my attendance was bad because of bus strikes that happened for 3-4 months) even though a boy in my course who has bullied multiple people and has been taken out of lessons was allowed to go and my attitude towards college, maybe if they were more accommodating i would be more positive towards college. Not only this but in the lifestyle building they have an older man allowed in the building after multiple young girls have complained about him making them uncomfortable including a young staff member. Absolutely disgusting will not be going back next year.

alima samake

Not the best college, terrible support from my childcare teachers last year, broke my ankle and couldn’t catch up on all of my hours even tho I worked at the nursery previously, the college wouldn’t count it and put me down as a fail. Don’t recommend.

Tyler Miller

TLDR: Good quality place, needs a fair better level of communication and system for 5⭐

Liking the course and the people I've met, it doesn't feel very specialised but it's good

Some of the communication leaves a lot to be desired, sometimes no communication about certain things. For example, restricted areas where someone threatens to kick you off the course because you entered a building with no warnings or signs indicating only certain lanyards may enter. Or an elevator which is only marked as a staff elevator on one of three floors.

The enrollment was fairly simple and they were nice at coordinating me where to go but a much more guided introduction to the college rather than a swift tour of a few places, mail, map and misc info would've been greatly preferred. I've now attended for 2 years and the system has been consistently awkward. From connectivity to dropouts to it randomly changing my first name to my next of kin's, I think the internal system they have is SERIOUSLY due an update.

Despite the rant, it's held up by its lecturers, fantastic facilities and cool people. SEN support seems great, bursary fund is a bit hellish to sign up for but works extremely well. Safeguarding is seriously considered and well put together.

arif rahim

My final year here was horrendous all my teachers left the person in charge locked himself in his office refusing to speak to anybody. We tried complaining to the college and they sent someone over to investigate but the guy just hired agency teachers who where awful and barly spoke English and the college investigater even admitted they where awful but they where just there to see if we had teachers or not so they couldn't do anything about it. As time went on we weren't learning anything and assignments kept on piling on and I just gave up it was obvious what they where doing they where just going to blame covid for everything. My mental health was also being affected the thought of me walking 8 miles a day for my education for no reason was very emotionally and mentally draining and I just needed to stop coming in but I still got reports from my mates and near the end of the year one guy in my group managed to teacher himself and get all the assignments done and he shared his answers with the group so I started coming in again but unfortunately by the time I got the answers it was too late I didn't have enough time to get the work done I did have a meeting with the assistant of the head of rail and she did exactly what I said they would do blame covid and apologise I was also told I wasn't allowed in education again without paying this place stole 4 years of my life for nothing I should have gone with my gut and moved couse when I had the chance this happened in 2022 Rail Academy and the fact the teachers in charge Dan hasn't faced any consequences and still works there to this day is disgusting and insulting at the very most. The agency staff who ended up getting permanent jobs in my opinion Dan's sick way to spite us allegedly got sacked the very next year.

Skyler Reid

To anyone thinking about attending this college I wouldn’t recommend it I had only just started this year and by far the worst thing I’ve ever experience I was studying health and social level 2 loved the course unfortunately the staff were impolite very rude nothing was ever organised you would never know where to go or what class to attend which lead to a lot of stress and confusion and then we would get bad attendance even though the staff were not helpful in where we needed to be the staff seemed to have no clue what they were doing very unprofessional as someone who suffers with anxiety and mental health problems I feel the staff couldn’t meet my needs couldn't care a less and we’re not supportive or helpful in any situation they care more about attendance than the actual students i wrongful lost my place on the course due to a number of errors that they made but seem to take no accountability for