UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM Employer Reviews

Laboratory demonstration generally involves ensuring equipment is correct, introducing an experiment and associated techniques then guiding students through any problems they may have, whilst also marking work. The best part of the job was explaining concepts to students who were so excited to finally understand! Sometimes, the lab manual was found – more... to be incorrect which was difficult, and towards the end of the session other demonstrators might not have had the same attention to detail in cleaning up the lab for safety purposes which was also difficult. Learning to take charge and get the entire lab back to better than we found it - not just in sections I was responsibe for - gave me an incredible sense of pride and was remarked upon favourably by several members of staff. – less

Nice place to study (Uni. of Nottingham), students, professors and the facilities are really nice.
Lack the work experience is one of the cons during studying one year programme (MSc.)
Nice place to live in Nottingham

Students are very well represented. We were given an adequate amount of contact hours. Classes were kept to a reasonable size. I learnt how to conduct many different research methods and improved my competency in Microsoft Office software as well as other data-analysis programmes.

I worked on a variety of jobs each day including cutting grass, pruning shrubs, planting bedding, spraying and weeding, plant identification. City and Guilds Horticulture and Fine Sports Turf and Botanical names of plants/shrubs.
My team leader who used to work at your garden centre in your nursery, was a great help to me. I learnt a great deal from – more... him regarding Plant Science/Botany.
The hardest part of the job was in the winter gritting with salt/grit.
The most enjoyable part of the job was working outdoors meeting people. – less