She feels the pandemic had a huge effect on many students
Hundreds of students in Nottingham have joined calls demanding compensation from their university for 'not receiving what we paid for'. University of Nottingham is one of the 18 universities which have already been issued Letters Before Action - with more expected to be sent in the coming months.
She graduated with a First in Modern Languages, however she said she does not feel confident to apply for jobs because she is not 'fluent enough'. "We just felt so unprepared because of the lack of of actual time speaking those languages." She should have started her year abroad in September 2020 - when the world was at its height of the pandemic. Ms Cardwell was looking forward to studying the first semester in Spain until December, and then the second one in China from February until May, 2021.
"If you did not find yourself an option, you would have to do this online university which was not enough to prepare for your final year basically. So it was just staggering. As a language student, that was just absolutely not at all what we were expecting to achieve." She added: "I got a First in my degree - but I do not think I have got the oral capacity that I should have - which is hindering me now when I am applying for jobs. I am just massively behind everyone when it comes to oral skills. I do not think that the university helped us enough to resolve that problem."
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