Im currently in my second year of a BTEC national diploma in performing arts, and im trying to gather as much information on as many different higer education placements as possible. firstly, are there any weston students out there studying a HND or a degree in performing arts that could advise me in any way about weston? any good/bad points about it? your experiences? i would really appreciate anyone who has any information that they think may help me to either post it here, or possibly email me at my hotmail address, which is midnight_fairie@hotmail.com i have read a few reviews on other UNI's on here, and i find the opinions ...  Read the complete review

I know from experience that studying for exams causes a tremendous amount of stress. I am in my second and final year at college and I can tell you that college life, as much as it may seem a doodle before you go there, it is not all plain sailing. My course (GNVQ) was assesed progressively over the two years through huge amounts of assignments and very few exams, which I suppose gave me an advantage from other people studying the tradtitional 'A' Level, and although I was doing an 'A' Level alongside I still had the added advantage of knowing how well I was doing in my primary subject. Some people go into sixth form colleges thinking that ...  Read the complete review

PRIVATE EDUCATION Both my children have attended an independent school since they were both two and a half. They attend a school within the Bristol area; the school takes children from two and a half in the nursery, right through to six form. The reason we chose to send our children to private school was because of the facilities and class sizes, not allowing anymore than twenty in a class. In fact we didn’t chose to send our children here, I would like to say we could never afford the fees, but I have the most wonderful parents ever, and they actually started looking for school when I was pregnant for Aaron, which I didn’t know, until he ...  Read the complete review