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I think the brands and external guest lecturers that FMB in particular partner with are predominantly white individuals. I think we can benefit so much from working for a minority owned business or individuals that have gone through different life experiences to really enhance our learning. Not only would it let diverse students feel like there's someone they could relate to but even for the British (white) students they can probably become more aware of the certain realities POC face and micro aggressions and ignorance within the industry

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I feel like I'm someone who contributes quite a lot to my course but yet my lecturers after 3 years of teaching me still can't properly pronounce my ethnic surname

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I feel like there isn’t enough awareness about joining societies and it feels like you can’t join later in the year

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Using 3 markets like uk us and Europe would be easier, and then using markets where it’s easier to find jobs with the future.

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I feel like I am happy to openly express some of the things that happen within my course and the staff are very sympathetic but I’m not sure if I see any actual change in how the teaching changes as a result of that

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The black leadership program was really good, it was a good expierience for me to learn more and what I wanted to do in the future

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Global lounge helps me have a sense of belonging especially within cultural festivals, global lounge can definitely be used more as a resource

Colab groups I have been a part of haven’t been too partial to racist, they have always taken my opinions into considerations which made me feel good

Randomised groups definitely help rather than choosing your friends

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They need to be considerate of the entire diverse group and not give us something that favours one group over the other, for instance giving us the UK market it would favour British students but we have all chosen to study here so we all can benefit with learning about the market. Providing more generic and entry level topics

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The brief and the learning outcome sometimes don’t correlate with brand projects sometimes the people who win get the worst/fail grades so we don’t know wether to sacrifice our grades to be chosen by the brand or sacrifice the brand to ensure we keep our grades high

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The environment is so overly competitive, and it creates a very toxic environment where we can’t learn from one another

Something that could be so easy if we worked together becomes so overly competitive where they don’t speak to another making it so much harder

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Within the A&D group especially within the MA courses, my course doesn’t sound as hard but it’s so incredibly challenging and demanding the grading is very tough, we also need to create visual work we need to work on whereas other students in different courses just need to submit a word document

I feel like it’s unfair at the end of the day, however we try we cannot get above a pass grade so you starts questioning your own abilities

The grading is way harder than other departmentd

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As a PG student we don’t have 3 years to see the change our feedback can bring, we only have one year to finish our course so we can’t be enjoy any improvements or if any improvements really changed

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Within FMB for stage one and two there were lectures for technology, sustainability, and women empowerment but there were no learning for diversity- when brought up if there were going to be any teaching on those topics especially when the students who chose to their projects under that macro trend are predominantly diverse and international students that was a learning gap we had to further our experience

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There was a Google form that asked if they believed if the brand they were planning on working with was related enough to the course or if it felt relevant to the learning experience which then a lot of students filled in saying it wouldn’t but at the end no action was taken to change the brand and they ended up going through with working for a company that did not enhance the students learning experience

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When I was a course ambassador, I do feel like they listen to some feedback but not all so that needs to improve

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One of my mentors when I wanted to talk about my feedback still has not replied, but some reply right away. I think there’s not a lot of help with understanding how some of it works for example a friend of mine got a marginal fail and we don’t know what that means does this mean he failed the module or does he need to retake it? He brought it up with his mentor and they told him to speak about it to someone else, it causes him so much stress. There’s no clarity about situations like these especially about marks and feedback

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More inclusive mentors, staff, and environments and also encouraging British students to work better with international and diverse students. When the year begins maybe take some time to let them get to know each other better because it will help their learning process

I only started going to library recently, I really feel like I can learn a lot from people but equally I think they need to have more spaces like that. Other places in campus seem to just facilitate night life or mediocre events

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The library is one place I can get things done and learn from people around, it’s like a global lounge but for academics. The masters and PG students are given a disadvantage especially during the summer because it’s closed, I feel the that the uni prioritises UG students. We feel like we are not recognised as much

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There should be ways to find out more about events that I’m interested in it, not using either emails or social media. Using the NTU app could be helpful to help students find events relevant to things they would need

And that has to be mentioned about how students can make the most of the app

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There should be diverse mentors within the global lounge to offer support of personal and academic issues, there should be a mix of mentors who are lecturers/academic based who can help with academic struggles and maybe student mentors who can help with personal issues or feelings of isolation

I think it’s important that these are paid roles so that there is a certain commitment and intention within the mentors supporting these students

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The global lounge is a good start I’m really grateful for that, it’s a space I can be myself. It’s a platform that can go places I feel like I can learn about other cultures. I feel like it’s a resource that has been helpful

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The global lounge was really helpful to create a space for international students to connect with each other, a lot of students that I know haven’t made the most of resources like that because they already feel isolated in their course. A lot of experiences of diverse and international students is that they are just there for learning and to achieve a degree so they feel their struggles and loneliness is just something they have to live with.

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They need to work on the timing, for instance I had a reflective hand in and none of us knew how to do it so we just wrote based on experience, after the hand in we had lecture about how to make a reflective piece of work. It would ve been helpful to have the lecture first because how can I now go back to change my hand in

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YouTube videos would be helpful for students to help aid  independent learning, while there are things on the learning room most of the things are secondary research which isn’t as easily understandable for diverse or international students

There’s not a lot of consideration about how groups work well together, you could get marked down for something that wasn’t in your control

Consider hiring independent staff who can give more time to give individual feedback to help students understand how to improve more, who has more capacity and time to support students than lecturers who can make it feel like an after thought

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Most of us are entry level so for instance referencing and I feel like we weren’t introduced to it well, or for design I don’t come from a design background so using tools like in design it’s very complicated. I brought up this issue to my mentor and they linked me to more help but I feel like they didn’t have the time for me, she hasn’t set anything up since then and have not heard back from her. Like this can’t wait I’m learning by myself, and I don’t have any idea how it works I’m not asking them to teach me step by step but at least give me resources or guidelines to help

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There are situations where the diverse person is not given the chance to contribute because of either a language or cultural barrier, there are a lot of evident micro aggressions especially within group work making diverse students feel isolates

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If there’s 5 people in my class most of us two tables would be Indians 1 would be Chinese 1 would be white

are Indians majority of the time staff would overlook the Indian table it feels like we have been overlooked. Even when we need support they’ll approach us last, it feels like our questions aren’t as important as the other groups

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I feel like it’s hard to talk to staff unless it’s an emergency so talking to them about issues within diversity, it feels like my ideas about diversity aren’t as important. It feels like lecturers are only there for teaching and it doesn’t feel like I can talk about my personal issues and my life and i feel like it limits what we can feel we can share

I think we need more diverse mentors or even point person we can chat about these issues

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We had a similar project. The university didn’t make it accessible for us to research it better or communicate with the Chinese students. We don’t have a way to work together for instance they can’t use instagram and we can’t use WeChat I feel the the lecturers didn’t help facilitate us and it feels like we don’t have a good advantage

There’s not many diversity within teaching staff it’s very white centric it does not create a very supportive learning experience for POC and international students

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Learning about new markets like china is very interesting, trying to research it was quite hard when articles are in Chinese. Our course is very diverse but students who were from china they have an upper hand and they had an advantage by already understanding the market and it’s culture/language

If it was about the uk market it would be more fair, for instance if it was the Indian market then I would have the upper hand

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I feel grateful that my course has been a diverse experience, back home it’s a very competitive atmosphere whereas here it’s a very supportive and open minded environment

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It feels normal for me to be in a classroom with majority white students/staff

Seeing a staff member that was like me helped me become passionate about this topic