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Royal Holloway College, University of London in general |
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16/08/05 (1877 review reads) |
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Advantages: Great facilities on campus.
Disadvantages: Town offers little.
When choosing a University you consider these vital things; 1). Course, 2). Accomodation, 3). Services on Campus, 4). Cost, 5). Bars and 6). the local towns. Holloway scores highly in most areas.
1). Royal Holloway offers a great variety in courses from languages to history, sciences to business studies and management. Not only does it offer great courses in themselves, but it also offers you many options with regards of how to study your choice of course. Fro example, on the languages front, they offer many different forms of modules and combinations, which allows you to study a great variety, and make the most of your University education.
2). Royal Holloway also offers a great amount of high quality accomodation which is reasonably priced and has a variety to suit everyone.
Founders offers accomodation in the stunning old buliding, which is the crowing centre piece of the University. The rooms in Founders are small and there is not alot on offer except the room itself. Founders is a catered Hall and has communal bathrooms. Founders is ideal for those who do not mind having a small living space and is one of the cheapest Halls on campus; £200-£2500. Accomodates 479 students.
Gowar and Wedderburn Hall is a self-catered hall which is modern in appearance and facilities. Rooms are en-suite and are designed in flats of eight rooms, sharing a communal kitchen. This is a nice hall, although it is one of the most expensive; £3000-£4500. Accomodates 564 students.
Penrose Court is a self catered hall for 200 students. This Hall provides a mix of flats and houses which share communal bathrooms and kitchen facilities. Price range; £2500-£3000.
Williamson Hall (113 students) and Reid Hall (187 students) are both catered Halls each have single study bedrooms with en-suite facilities. Both also provide laundry facilities. Prices for both range from £2500-£2900. Disabled Adapted.
Runnymede Hall is a self catered Hall for 441 students with single rooms and en-suite facilites. It is arranged into flatlets of 6 to 8 rooms with a communal kitchen area which acts as a meeting place. Laundry facilities are also avaliable and Runnymede is Disabled Adapted Accomodation. £3500 - £4300.
Kingswood is a catered Hall for 415 students. This Hall is located about a mile from the campus and a bus service is provided. There are squash and tennis courts, a dining room, TV/common room, PC lab, laundry room and a Spanish themed Tapas bar known as 'Pardos.'
Kingswood is divided into 2 Halls, Kingswood I provide single and spacious twin rooms divided into male and female areas with shared communal facilities. Kingswood II cotains flatlets of eight or nine single study bedrooms with shared pantries. En-suite facilities are also provided. £2300-£3600.
3). The Campus provides dining facilities, 2-3 bars, Students Union, Sports facilites and a bus service to Kingswood. Overall the services provided are excellent, although sporting facilities are not as good as other campus'.
4). Cost varies from year to year. Accomodation cost is listed above.
5). Bars are good, with TV and sky. Many are used as meeting places at lunch and between semnars.
6). The local town itself is disappointing providing little services. However, London is a short train journey from the town and there lies the great shopping facilities and night life.
Overall, Holloway is a great University, and for those who are after a fun and comfortable time at University, Holloway has it all!
Summary: A good fun time can be experienced at Holloway.
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- 15/06/07 Did you go to Holloway? |
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- 17/08/05 Points in order:
1) ..but surely this is exactly the same as any other university? (Is there any place in the country that DOESN'T offer choice of course modules and joint hons degrees?)
2) Compare prices for RHUL halls with those anywhere else in the country, including central London colleges. Even UCL, the joint closest major uni to central London, has considerably cheaper halls, many right in the city centre. The accommodation at RHUL IS generally high quality, but it is NOT reasonably priced. That is a bit of a silly statement. A quick comparitive scan of uni websites and prospectuses will confirm this.
3) Dining facilties are in fact quite poor, and food is way overpriced. SU bars are OK but again expensive and pernickity at times security-wise. SU generally is not that good. Sports facilties are quite good, but mentioning the bus to Kingswood is ridiculous. Kingswood is 1-2 miles away from the campus and essentially in the middle of nowhere. For safety and convenience, a bus service is the absolute minimum to be expected- more to the point might be ' why don't they sort out accommodation closer to campus?'.
4) How does cost vary from year to year (fees excepted)???!!?? Cost is huge and life at RHUL is very expensive. That is undeniable. Another slightly silly statement.
5) Bars are OK as places, but choice is obviously limited and they are relatively pricey. 'Many are used as meeting places at lunch and between seminars'- err..., so that would be EXACTLY LIKE EVERY OTHER UNIVERSITY IN BRITAIN (!).
6) The first part of this is true, the second a bit misleading. London is a 40 min minimum train from Egham, making about an hour's journey in total. Not horrendously long by any means, but not 'a short train journey' unless you are used to the Trans-Siberian express or something.
Overall, I would take exception to the ranking of the six points initially stated. Are cost, nightlife and location REALLY less important factors than halls and dining, sporting facilities etc.? If so, priorities have changed since I was choosing a uni. I would have thought in the modern era value for money and overall outlay would be prime considerations, after academics.
As a review, this is OK, but it seems mostly to just repeat info easily available in the prospectus and (ironically) offers little actual 'insight' into what life at RHUL is really like. Many of the points are slightly redundant, and what I would really like to see would be what makes RHUL really STAND OUT from other similar unis, in his opinion. In what ways is it unique and different? If it's better, why is it better? What does it give me that others cannot? There is little of that beyond fairly bland superlatives. An average-OK review. |
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