Cheapskate, Unethical, Farce of a company - Senior Student Wellbeing Advisor BIMM Institute Employee Review

1.0
20 Jan 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the people who are there in student facing departments are in it for the right reasons and make the unethical system work for the students where they can

Cons

Despite the fact that our pay bands are so low that come the minimum wage increase in April 2 bands will be beneath minimum wage, we've just been informed that there will absolutely no inflation based pay rise this year. But don't worry! they're developing an 'emergency fund' for when their employees can't afford to eat or live. What an utter joke of a company - and if staff treatment is an analogy of anything it's of the care the company as a whole have for it's students too - the bottom line is all that matters to BIMM, and it doesn't matter if it's staff or student wellbeing that is compromised to line the CEOs pockets.

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1.0
10 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Mostly great people working at campus level who are friendly and work tremendously hard. Brilliant collaboration across teams. Campus is a nice place to work.

Cons

Utterly appalling upper management who are invisible, out of touch and have no idea how much effort, time and passion goes into running things and supporting our students. We were constantly being stripped of resources and staff and were constantly fire fighting as a result. HR are mostly crap and bullying goes unchecked. Grievances are a waste of time. The HR team have no emotional intelligence whatsoever. Pay is rubbish compared to other universities and the annual review process that might (if you're lucky) get you a 1% pay rise is complete nonsense. Last year those of us who scored excellently and were due a pay increase were then downgraded because the company "couldn't afford" to give us all the pay increase we had earned. Morale is crap and people leave in swaithes. No opportunity for progression. Do not work here.

2.0
11 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Most of the staff are lovely and working with passionate students is a bonus.

Cons

We are all paid around £10,000 less than other universities, colleges etc… Some incompetent staff are given higher positions and skive off, miss deadlines take advantage of the company and don’t care about the negative consequences on the staff or students.

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