u/idylle_doll

I’m reaching out to all my fellow colleagues out there who have either completed or currently on this course from hell, aka LLM-LPC. I want to know if any of you are currently experiencing even a fraction of the absolute shit show I’ve been suffering through. I can’t write it all down here or I’d write a 10 part novel but in a nutshell their perpetual incompetence has destroyed my whole experience with this uni and this course. There are a few genuinely good people on their team - higher ups who’ve helped me a lot but it’s because everyone else was not doing their job.

So, in particular my whole PPD experience has been bloody abysmal and in a nutshell the last time I submitted my dissertation, they made me wait an extra 4 months ontop of the usual 2 month waiting period (6 MONTHS altogether) to release my grade and that only happened because I had to get a higher up involved and he forced their hand after many emails back and forth and all I got was an apology and shitty explanation that they “accidentally took me off the course”. Then this time around I’ve waited a total of 3 months with the same back and forth emails just giving me the run around until I had to get the same higher up involved for them to even acknowledge me and this time they apologised saying the 1 month delay “was because of an IT issue” and only today they released my result but it was the exact same percentage as last time which makes absolutely no sense. It just seems suspicious to me, like this time around I hired a professional tutor to review my old papers, teach me about essay writing, time management and research to make sure this paper was worlds improved from the last and the last one was bare bones and it’s so weird that they delay my grade for a month and then it’s exactly the same as before? I can’t help but fear they just lost it and kept my former grade there and updated the date. I don’t even have any proof it was marked.

I am at my last straw of tolerance and because I’m an online student, I feel super frustrated and isolated as I don’t know anyone else on the course right now to discuss this with (my cohort has all gone onto graduate but because of the plethora of problems I’ve experienced I’ve had so many factors delaying my completion of this course).

Has anyone experienced anything like this where you had to deal with extreme delays only to recieve the exact same percentage? Were you able to investigate the issue of whether your grade was accurate? Were you able to get it remarked and received a different grade?

Any feedback would be so much appreciated,

Thank you in advance.