Liverpool Hope

Hope is one of the smaller universities in the UK, and in Liverpool. It is often overshadowed by the «main» and more prestigious Liverpool University. It claims that the size of the university is beneficial to students as they are able to care and pay more attention to individuals.
They offer a wide range of degree options including undergraduate, postgraduate and PGCE courses. They have also been voted the number one univesity for graduate employment in the North West.
Some of the staff are decent and some are horrendous — like most places I suppose. In the morning the reception staff are really helpful and kind, whereas in the afternoon, it seems to hurt them to say hello.
The canteen. well don’t even go there. The food is disgusting and the prices are ridiculous. There was a sandwich bar, similar idea to Subway which was always extremely popular but for some reason, they got rid of it.

Liverpool Hope has always struck me as a great place: the joint Anglican-​Catholic foundation is a good start, sending a positive message about ecumenical links; and the buildings, greenery and setting are all very pleasant.
I have attended dozens of business meetings here over the years, and had several lunches and breakfasts too. It does a good line in conferences and meetings here, and rightly so: they look after you well and the catering is generally of a high standard. Certainly the staff were friendly and eager to help.
I only knew a few of the academic staff there but they always seemed to be very positive people. The University has a deservedly good reputation for the quality of its teacher-​training in particular and I would have no hesitation in recommending it to prospective students.
Hope has a building at Everton too (used for some of its Arts courses, I believe). It’s not in such a green part of Liverpool but it’s a spectacular building and makes a great venue for concerts.
All in all, a great place to study or to come for a meeting.

Four years spent here and I loved it. it’s a few years ago, but with it being out of the centre of Liverpool, in quite a nice affluent area you feel like you’re living in a small community rather than a big faceless campus. The halls are based over two sites, st Kaths, old fashioned, beautiful building with a quad and pokey little rooms, always what I imagine Oxford or Cambridge to be like. Christ’s over the other side of the raod is more modern with tower blocks, lighter but not with the same quaint feeling. The course was great, one of the most popular places to learn to teach but the thing I really remember is the huge 20p scones we used to get at morning break!

I studied to be a science teacher at Liverpool Hope, and it was a very different experience to the university I went to for my undergraduate degree. The campus is very small and green, which was great during the summer months as it felt relaxed and less hurried.
I’m not sure about all the courses they offer but I can say that their PGCE course is extremely good — it has regularly scored ‘outstanding’ with Ofsted, and this means it is one of the best places in the country to train to be a teacher.
The only con that I can really give the place (which is nothing to do with the university itself) is that it is quite difficult to get to in terms of transport. The bus services here are quite unreliable, particularly in the mornings.