‘It would be good to have a chance to meet the teachers and find out more about the course before applying’

‘Our course leaders and teachers facilitated online taster sessions and one-to-ones for potential students to give them the opportunity to find out more about their chosen course.’

‘We would like to continue our course online, if we are unable to meet in person due to the current lockdown’

‘We researched and trialed different platforms for taking our residential courses online while Emerson College was closed during lockdown and made it possible for these courses to continue online.’

‘This learning platform is clunky, does not let us work as collaborately and creatively as we would like to’

‘We researched and found and trialed an alternative online platform designed for creative communities. Our students trialed the platform found that this suited their needs much more than the previous one. So we switched all our online teaching to the new platform.’

‘We are struggling with the amount of computer time per day as consequence of the circumstances of the course changing from residential to online’.

‘We reviewed the course structure and timetable, breaking it up into smaller modules to give students the same level of teaching but with shorter modules, and more breaks during the day to balance the amount of screen time for participants.  We also added in more self learning and artistic exercises between lectures.’

‘Please provide some tea bags (English breakfast) in the student house kitchens.’

The next week we added this to the task list for our house team during our weekly team meeting, so that students could enjoy a nice cup of tea in their house kitchens.’

‘The food is delicious – we particularly appreciate the vegan and gluten free option’

‘Over the last two years, we noticed that many more people were interested in eating vegan. Our cooks received on the job training by our kitchen managers to cater for vegan diets.’

‘We need Better Wifi’

‘In 2021 we paid for a fibre internet line to improve the WIFI in one our main buildings (Ruskin) to improve internet access for students.  While we are not yet able to improve the Wifi over the whole campus (due to our remote location), the addition of the fibre to some of our main teaching spaces has significantly increased the accessibility and upload and download speeds for course participants and teachers.’

‘The grounds are so beautiful.’

‘We recognise that our grounds are one of the highlights of our students experience. In 2021 we were granted Demeter certification for our whole grounds confirming that we don’t use pestizide and only use natural fertiliser.  Maintaining our grounds in a way that brings vitality to the soil takes a lot of work and we have confirmed that we will continue to hire the necessary staff to keep up the grounds despite our Covid losses and staffing costs.