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Textile Design (with placement year) BA Hons
The Textile Design BA (Hons) course offers a diverse and inclusive curriculum to inspire and train multi-disciplinary textiles practitioners through the study of materials, processes, and design methodologies.
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member1081253
14th March 23
Textile Design (with placement year), BA Hons FullTime
Very friendly and helpful technicians and module leaders. I have mainly enjoyed doing the practical work, learning new interesting techniques
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Most relevant Student Reviews for Textile Design (with placement year) BA Hons at Loughborough University
member12110905
11th June 24
Textile Design (with placement year), BA Hons FullTime
I wouldn't say I got my value for money course wise to be honest. No contact with personal tutor, teaching was good in many places but a bit irrelevant in some. Interesting subject read more
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member1081253
14th March 23
Textile Design (with placement year), BA Hons FullTime
Very friendly and helpful technicians and module leaders. I have mainly enjoyed doing the practical work, learning new interesting techniques read more
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member881143
14th March 23
Textile Design (with placement year), BA Hons FullTime
really fun course with inspiring staff- friendly, helpful and knowledgable. read more
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member781102
13th March 23
Textile Design (with placement year), BA Hons FullTime
You have to be very self guided in this course, you learn lots of new techniques and have amazing opportunities to use facilities but its all about individual development. read more
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member581039
13th March 23
Textile Design (with placement year), BA Hons FullTime
Great course however impossible to catch up if you get behind. Perhaps needs to be structured better? read more
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Gregory3605
11th June 24
Fine Art, BA Hons FullTime
The value for money is negligible because we don’t have many lectures, but the support from staff and tutors is invaluable read more
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member11106404
12th April 24
Fine Art (with placement year), BA Hons FullTime
There is more of a focus on purely our individual practice rather than workshops and skills. We have one workshop a week but it doesn’t feel like enough. Too much independent work. However tutors are supportive and empathetic, whenever I have emailed to meet with someone they have been eager to. read more
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26th March 24
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It’s really interesting and worth the cash read more
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21st March 24
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member1399255
5th February 24
Fine Art, BA Hons FullTime
Really regret taking this course. First year was a shambles as there was very little guidance or teaching, everyone was left to fend for themselves and try to work out what was expected of us. Lectures are scarce and when you do get them they are rarely relevant. Most work is self-led which would be fine except there is very little support. Tutors and feedback are misleading as there is no communication between tutors and it’s all opinion based (some like one thing and others like something else which affects your grade). Multiple times I have been told that my work was brilliant and would achieve a high grade only to receive a below average mark which is very frustrating. Many tutors have favourites and only like a certain medium/style/genre etc. You have to buy all of your materials (nothing is provided) and you have to pay for any materials you use in the workshops. Feedback given by students to tutors is overlooked and explained away so no change ever happens. read more
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member1095750
29th November 23
Fine Art, BA Hons FullTime
tutor is very friendly however i have heard other tutors not as good read more
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member581330
15th March 23
Fine Art (with placement year), BA Hons FullTime
Engaging lecturers, little support concerning materials and use of facilities. read more
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member1381199
14th March 23
Fine Art (with placement year), BA Hons FullTime
Would be helpful if we where given career opportunities and helped with looking for placements read more
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member1175542
24th January 23
Fine Art, BA Hons FullTime
I was dreading it at first but I love it read more
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member461205
21st July 21
Fine Art, BA Hons FullTime
I love my course so much! The fine art studios create a community where you can talk to and ask advice from all years! The facilities are amazing and come with incredibly knowledgeable staff! My personal tutors this year have been amazing, so supportive and give feedback really well. read more
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member1253269
30th December 20
Fine Art, BA Hons FullTime
The 'Drawing, Discourses, and Debates' module is awful. Every lecture I watch I have no clue what point the lecturer was trying to make. The facilities are good but we only have one weekly workshop so if you actually want to learn anything, you have to be in workshops in your own time. (You have to book a spot, and there isn't always space). The rest of the time they just let you do whatever and then assess you on it. You're not really given feedback just ideas on how to develop your projects. An absolute nightmare for first years, nobody has any clue what they're doing. My personal tutor is lovely and he actually makes me want to suck it up and make the best of this course. read more
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member945764
16th February 20
Fine Art, BA Hons FullTime
Really enjoy my course and good value for money as all you're materials in workshops are paid for read more
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member537516
30th April 19
Fine Art, BA Hons FullTime
My personal tutor was basically non existent & I received no help ever, despite multiple emails. The teachers also provide very dry unsupportive help which is not that often, you’re basically alone for weeks at a time with zero guidance and I hope everyone applying is aware of that as it might not suit some people. The campus is good and lots of nice facilities & Amazing societies, but so sporty that for an artistic soul a bit intense. read more
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member1231610
13th May 18
Fine Art, BA Hons FullTime
I came to uni with a dream, that dream and all hopes for the future are now destroyed and sucked dry with all the incompetences here along with my self esteem, mental health and career prospects. All I hope for the future is that I never have to come to this place ever again. From start to finish the uni is unorganised and delivers unstimulating content, the sense of community here is a sham, if you are not a sport or engineering student you get little funding, minimum contact and the worse facilities. The union is extortionately priced, and is poorly structured. read more
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member923301
25th July 16
Fine Art, BA Hons FullTime
fabulous choice of uni for a beautiful course read more
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member422972
2nd July 16
Fine Art, BA Hons FullTime
Not enough teaching for personal practice development or ideas development. Too unstructured for me read more
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Graphic Design (with placement year), BA Hons FullTime
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member4104415
18th March 24
Graphic Design, BA Hons FullTime
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You win some you loose some. I enjoy my course but I am aware that this is a new course and a lot of workshop time is missing. read more
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14th March 23
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Needs to include less drawing aspects read more
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14th March 23
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