Southern Institute of Technology, Invercargill Campus

Good quality campus, full service, comfort, full facility, friendly and professional staff. I recomended. I learned English Course here. Now more students come from other country, i think SIT need to develop more classroom and tutor.

I have finished my studies by distance learning from SIT. The admin staff and facilitators were exceptionally supportive during the whole programme tenure. The feedback provided by the facilitators significantly improved my understanding of the topics related to courses of the programme and also helped me in assignment planning and development. Students need to be proactive in communicating with facilitators and administration staff to get timely support as the whole enrolment process and study support during the programme duration depends on the students themselves.

I do not suggest doing any studies here!Had a terrible time with this institute.They have awful facilitators who are nasty and unfair to you. Comments and feedback are vague. but still count on you to complete all of the tasks to their standards. communication with students is insufficient. The workload is completely unfair given the way that they grade.Furthermore, neither the administration nor the student support have been beneficial. Overall, I was dissatisfied with their performance and wished I had picked an other institution.I should have read their testimonials before I joined.

International students are not assessed properly & are made to repeat courses, losing $$'s. There is plenty of scope for some tutors to improve in their teaching and attitudes towards students. Tutors, of what use are you if you are corrupt and lack integrity..?

Great environment.......excellent coffee-chocolate and whatever! Food looks good with plenty of choice/selection.Very friendly service and no hint of wanting customers out after service .....relaxed. One of the good places to meet friends!!!!

I wish we had read the reviews of this institution before enrolling. My son worked so hard for his half year course only to find out 90% of his assignments had disappeared and the course manager didn’t put in any effort to find out what happened.It’s near impossible to get any relevant help from the administration. They treated my son like he had not put in any effort at all, failed him and asked him to redo the course the next year at half the pace. Unbelievable waste of time and effort. Total lack of student support.I have only now uncovered so many similar situations with other students.I proofread all of the assignments my son submitted, I know how much hard work he put in. All for what? Nothing.How does this institution get away with treating young people this way?

I was studying Bachelor of Nursing here. In year 2 I experienced finanical , emotional, psychological, and physiological harm due to Head of school, Year 2 Programme Manager, and some year 2 tutors. I cannot fathom how people like this are in power and are supposedly a representation of health. The ongoing bullying, undermining ,and harrasment lead to a loss of self esteem ( this went on for a whole year, even though i was still sitting exams). I would rather pay full fees elsewhere than deal with the mental headache anyday. I find it really unfair how some students are given extenstions, or resits even though clearly these students do not meet the certain standards of becoming a nurse. It really shows how a person in power can manipulate the system and use it to their advantage. Very unfair.

I do not recommend the nursing course. My entire experience here was dreadful.Initially I was searching for an affordable nursing degree, to enable me to make progress in my life by serving and caring for others.After leaving halfway through the 3year degree here at SIT, I continued my studies elsewhere.I learnt that the course here does not even deserve a one star. It is simply outdated and highly unprofessional.

I'm not sure of the rest of it but the hair dressing units very well set up. I was privileged to be asked to be a model. I was very impressed.

SIT2LRN course for level 4 applied science was good, facilitators were very supportive.But… If you have no further study plans straight after this course I would not recommend taking it as they were not able to send out a half way progress report which on their website is supposed to be sent to you 6-8 weeks into the course.I never received this and almost a month and a half later AFTER the course had finished, I am still fighting to get a copy of my HALF WAY results to add to my application for my degree that I wanted to do.As they couldn’t send me out anything, this is a large part of the reason I was placed on the waiting list for my degree and will be delayed until next year which is very upsetting.Very unreliable, has caused a lot of stress as I’ve been mucked around for a while now.One of the women that I’ve been back and forth over email with has sent some not so professional and outright rude emails to me.The application process for this course was a nightmare also, a lot of back and forth with emails and was guaranteed a spot in the course if I dropped my hours of work down to 20. after I dropped my working hours from 40 to 20 as instructed, the lady decided to not accept me, it was then that we spoke to someone higher who had a bit more compassion and understanding to accept me.Overall, if you want to spend $500 on a course to receive no official results of all your hard work and just do it for ‘experience’ then this course might be for you!Thanks SIT >:(