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Would appreciate if you guys helped me make this viral to save a generation of prospective students from applying to SIM-UOL, and to consider other Private unis. Hell if MOE can examine UOL practices I'd be pretty glad. I'm not a student from NUS, but SIM-UOL. SIM-UOL is a distance learning private university run by a faculty in the UK. There are local admin matters handled by SIM, but the academics, the exams, all are run by UOL faculty from UK. It's been 3 years here and I got to say; the United Kingdom faculty treat international students here in SG like shit. And it's not an issue unique to covid uni. They have been treating international students like trash before covid and more like a convenient cash cow then students. They take no ownership nor responsibility of you as their student, rather, you are their part time job, of which if you were to get any attention that is a blessing. The other distance universities aren't like this. UB, UoS, UW etc. At least they do frequent check-ins. Only UOL faculty has done more to actively harm relationships with students, or to hinder academic development; the worst is when they either chose to ignore you suddenly while you are pursuing a line of inquiry, or, to make sweeping last minute changes to entire cohorts if it helps them save money. I hope students graduating from Poly and JC see this and heed this warning that the UK faculty will screw you over as a student, and there is no recourse for you because they are so far away. Please consider another private U. I also partially blame SIM for this. SIM is responsible for negotiating with UOL over what basic benefits or attention students should receive, but rather it's grown complacent and comfortable being a middle man, and often wriggles their wrist and points you to UOL if you approach them with a problem. But you see, pointing you at UOL is actually a dead end, because UOL will reply all students with the same generic reply on not being able to help you. And if you think about calling them - fat chance. Out of the 14 times I've called, their chancellor or distance learning head is always busy, and they ask you to call again another time. SIM, and UOL if you're not going to take the basic academic welfare of your students seriously, then it is not appropriate that fresh grads from Poly and JC apply to you without knowing all of this. Signed - a depressed UOL student when he sees his friends in other unis.