IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society

The security staff showed 0 respect to their students.Rude, and cocky.The irony is they now in their new blue jacket writing “campus experience team”.The IOE has been refurbished, but sadly not the security team’s behaviours.

I am almost completing my PGCE here, and I want to say that my course leader Graham Griffiths has been really supportive, and helped me learn, recognise so much in a short timeframe. So thank you UCL, IOE.

Best institution around the world!

I attended a short course and it was absolutely brilliant. The instructor was very knowledgeable and experienced, so was the best person to deliver the course! There was also a practical, hands-on session, which was fab. I felt very looked-after" even though there were building works going on - from the security at the entrance of the building who directed me to the room to the team who delivered the course. Refreshments were good too. A great experience."

Ranked in the first place for education studies by the QS World University Ranking for three consecutive years. This is the best place to meet and learn from reputable scholars in the field of education. Its library, the IoE's Newsam Library, is the Europe's largest education library.

While this school may be ranked well in Education and might have some good instructors (so I've heard) the admissions department is the most disorganized department I've encountered at any university. I was accepted to this university and requested deferred entry. The negative issues with admissions was constant. Paperwork mixed up; e-mails were consistently ignored (had to resort to chasing down three or four different people for answers-terrible!), then after my year of deferment was up was told very casually that this hadn't been recorded in their system and they even asked me to provide proof of acceptance!! (You are admissions, aren't you the ones who should be keeping track of student records, not me?!!). They next told me I could then start in January, then was told oh no

DO NOT GO TO UCL IOE!!! While the research level of this school might be high, which makes them a high ranking school, their student administrative department is the most disorganized I have ever experienced. I was taking a joint program with the University of London and IOE, and the administrative work was not done properly between these two schools that modules I have registered and paid for could not be open and taken at the IOE. I've paid money and still they aren't doing anything about it.

Excellent school for teacher education.. in my opunion, UCL IOE is the ultimate point of teacher education

Perhaps contrary to other peoples' experience, mine was the worst I've ever had at an educational institution. Like another reviewer mentioned, there were issues with enrolment for many in my class and I suspect others doing the PGCE, but for me, the enrolment went quite smoothly; I wish I could say the same about the course.From the beginning, I was treated strangely. I sent an innocent email enquiring about subject knowledge, and the response was surprisingly aggressive. In an email I was told that if I didn't like what was on the course then there are other people who would gladly take my place, even though I was just enquiring about the course content to ascertain my suitability.The PGCE Secondary Computing with ICT course leader/subject tutor was also strange. He was argumentative, threatening (he indirectly threatened me with legal action if I mentioned my experience online), demoralising and downright rude. A two-faced character, he would pretend to be supportive and attentive to me and others in front of the class, but alone in his office and in his emails, he was a very different person.The subject tutor was not very helpful and always negative from the very beginning with me; I think he had a grudge against me and might have been racist as he did mention the country of origin of a former student teacher of his from a foreign country which he may have perceived as a similar or the same ethnicity as mine; who knows. A DfE Premier Plus advisor told me he might have been racist; I guess this is common in education.The subject tutor would negatively criticise my work and put it down without constructive feedback. After he observed me at the placement, he told me with a questioning tone do you really want to be a teacher?" and "how do you think this (the course) is going to pan out?" These are not words of a PROFESSIONAL who is paid by the government (at least partially and/or indirectly) to get people prepared to go into the teaching PROFESSION. The ICT HoD at the placement told me that the subject tutor has an interest in getting me to pass; I would think so as this is normally the case

A big institute. Quite nice. One of the biggest in UK.