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Dom E

1 reviews | Active since Dec 2012

26 Aug 2024, 12:03

Disappointment

I have just completed my Bachelors degree with regent Business School to discover that there will be no graduation ceremony in Cape Town (or even Joburg for that matter). They advertise and rah rah about how important and what a right of passage the graduation ceremony is but are not mentioning that they don't make the ceremony very accessible in even the major cities.

While the content and exams are fair, I felt the customer service over the years was poor. You had to always follow up on everything, getting the assignments, then the dates then the webinars, then the exam dates then the results of assignment then the results of exams, every single semester. When you called customer services to follow up, the answer would always be "it will be out on friday" but friday would come and go and it would not be out, then the same thing the following week till eventually about three weeks late the stuff would come out.

I am glad to be done with my degree and would have liked to celebrate with the institution but they have made it impossible to do so and done it in my opinion in a rather secretive way. Happy to say I am completing post grad with another institution which has proven so organised that I can barely believe it, feel a bit sorry I did not go with them to start.

So Regent, this review is basically as a result of me having the last straw with unanswered emails and the unfulfilled promises.

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Replies (2)
Regent Business School
Regent Business School's reply29 Aug 2024, 10:14
Official
Dear Dom

Thank you for raising your concerns with us
We are currently looking into the matter and will contact you shortly

Regards
Student Services 
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Dom E's update29 Aug 2024, 11:44
Reviewer Update
Dear Student Services, you may look into the matter although you are aware of it. Either way, ceremonies should be accessible to the majority of students and it's imp**** that you would get the chance to graduate and a ceremony for all your hard work when you finish. Regent is very aware that this is and has not been happening for a while. Students pay for the ceremony anyway so it's really poor form from Regent. And now we need to pay to courier our documents because you don't have a ceremony near us. 3 years hard work and not even a pat on the back by your institution.