London School Of Business & Finance [LSBF] review: still waiting for results 64

I am also waiting for result since Oct2010. But there is no result till now. I complaint to OIE, Trading Standard, but still no result.
but I don't know what I need to do. and my passport is in UKBA from last 14months. I wont to go court but the Lawyer is asking me for very big amount. and legal advice beuro just referring me to each other.
If any one know best solution please let me.
thank you

wow! lSBF HAS SUCH A BAD REPUTATION. i CANT BELIEVE ALL THE THINGS THAT I HAVE BEEN READING. IT'S SOOO SAD BECAUSE I HAVE JUST PAID A DEPOSIT FOR THE ACCA PROGRAMME IT OFFERS AND WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST A REFUND. MY VISA EXPIRES SOON AND I AM SURE THEY WILL BE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION BUT NOT TO WORRY AS I WILL RENEW MY VISA AND BE BACK HERE WITH A LAWSUIT AGAINST THIS SO CALLED FAKE INSTITUTION SET UP TO TAKE PEOPLE'S MONEY.

Dear all,
As representatives of LSBF online, we would like to express our concern after reading Loe's message as well as other posts on the thread. As a school with over 25, 000 students, we are always open to feedback from students as we work to continually improve our service.
We can confirm that we have contacted Loe and all other students who expressed their opinions here and our teams are now dealing with their cases. As you will appreciate, we cannot comment on these individual cases publicly, due to our privacy policy.
If any current, former or potential students have any queries and questions, we will be more than happy to help. Feel free to contact us here and to use our profile as a channel to get in touch with the school in the future.
Best regards,
LSBF Team

Dear all,

I am an online student of Master's degree at Finance at London School of Business and Finance. Please note the followings:-

1- On June 20, 2012, I sent an email to the Msc advisor asking about the opportunity to enroll in the module of the Financial Reporting Analysis in September 2012 and the Corporate Finance in October 2012.

2- On June 26, 2012, she replied with the followings:
“You have been included in the enrolment system for FRA and CFM modules. Just to clarify, the FRA module starts 13th of August, and therefore you will be able to access the platform when the self-study session starts which is the 2nd of July. And CFM module starts on the 1st of October, the self-study session start date is on the 20th of August. Please, confirm once you are able to access the platforms”
3- On the same day I replied with : “please advise on the next possible enrolment for the FRA module”
4- On July 6, 2012, she replied with : “Please, note that the FRA module is already available for the self-study session, and you can access it now”
5- After checking the date of the test, I found that the test will be in September 2012 which does not match my request. Consequently, I have not confirmed my enrollment to the module as asked by the Msc-advisor.

Thereafter, I have been enrolled in December Module, but I was informed by another the Msc advisor that the December test is considered my second attempt .If I will not pass, I will be rejected from the whole programme and even if I pass my score is limited to 40%.
A month now, I am trying to explain and asking for a feedback regarding my status but there is no any response positive from London School of Business and Finance.

Thank you

Hello Hanan, thanks for contacting us. We will contact you via direct message, requesting your full name and student number to ensure our student support team deals with your request.

Regards,
LSBF Team

Hello, I have been calling LSBF everyday to check the status of my refund application. For the past month I have never once received the 'promised' callback. I am currently over-running my visa in order to stay and get my refund before leaving. I have explained this in several emails to the refund c'ttee and have never once received a response past confirmation of receipt of my application. What is happening?

LSBF, you contacted me via my personal email and since then I haven't received any other form of reply from your team even after I provided you with my details. It is indeed sad that educated people would act like this. Why would anyone in this present age deprive someone of a refund? Are you guys in some kind of bankruptcy? Why would it take three months to get a response from people? I suggest that the management team at LSBF be restructured for better and efficient services because right now, it sucks. That being said, I would stop at nothing to ensure that my money gets back to me. You people should take note of that.

LSBF: Please I haven't received any direct message from your side.

I had enrolled myself in LSBF canada on sept, 2011. As soon as I got my Letter of Acceptance after paying a deposit of CAD $ 4, 475, I had applied for my visa for Canada. Unfortunately I was rejected the visa twice which forced me to apply for refund. I created a ticket with number 6703 on 12th Feb, 2012. After being approved the refund, I provided my bank details as per asked. Due to delay I started inquiring more often and I would get replies that my refund would be processed by July, than mid of November and lastly end of January. It has now been more than a year since I have applied for my refund and I am still waiting.

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I am a student from LSBF college 9 Holborn London. Group (MBA top up 8 FM). I had been failed in my dissertation after which I made an appeal showing genuine reasons that show how my supervisor 'Sahar Ata' guided me wrongly in my dissertation. The college informed me through an email that they can't do anything in appeals relating to academic judgement. And that they have emailed this appeal to the University of Wales for further consideration. This has been told to me 2 months ago. And I haven't heard any updates from them in this relation. I doubt if they have really sent my appeal to the University for consideration. I have faced tremendous mental pressure by taking admission in LSBF. And I blame their admissions staff, their help desk services and telephone attendant's attitude over the phone, and mostly the academic staff or the teaching faculty who teach but fail the students in the exams to generate more revenue through resit fees. I went through these resit stage for two subjects in my MBA top up course after which they failed me in my dissertation asking me to resubmit by paying £129 and they have given me time till 2013. But I did everything as guided by the supervisor and after confirming each and every fact with my supervisor so that I never make any mistake in my dissertation. I was expecting more than 70% in my dissertation, but it was a shock for me when I saw 34% with a long list of faults pointed by the first marker in the assessment sheet. Dr. Steve Priddy gave me two options which are either I must accept Post Graduate Diploma or I must resubmit till the deadline given with the fees.

If LSBF is reading this, I request you to let me know the facts. I want to know if University of Wales has really received my appeal from the LSBF. My student id in LSBF is A4039085.

I humbly request the readers to please check this matter because I feel that some injustice is done to me and if this can happen to one student it can happen to anyone. I feel cheated right since I went for admission in LSBF for MBA top up. Its been a horrible experience of going through the admission process, visa process, repeated visa applications, resits, and very very careless attitude of the management staff towards the students like me who came to UK from India for a good qualification.

I don't even know if you are the right people I am discussing this issue with. But, I request you to cooperate as much as you can and help bring justice to me / your self and mostly Indians because we Indians are the most vulnerable and common victims of this corrupt education system all over UK.

Rajkiran.

Guys, you Kept me from the jaws of the trap.

It seems the problem is not only with the online degrees as I thought.

LSBF, PLEASE GIVE ME AN UPDATE

TKT NO 11567

my name is dean jenkinson and i paid for a CIMA course tuition and within 7 working days I decided to apply for a refund due to a change in personal circumstances on the 2nd January. The university sent me a gineric message on the 7th January. I have since called and called left messages with a promised reply and no one has come back to me since that date as well as leaving ticket messages requesting an update. I have been advised the university does have a 7 days cooling off period and their terms and conditions states 45 days max. This is a disgrace. Why has no one replied? What is my next step do I have to take legal action to get this matter resolved? Can someone please contact me within the next 3 working days or I see no alternative but to take this matter further.

I paid all my outstanding payments on July 28, 2011 and I have an email confirmation from the adviser of LSBF clearly confirming and thanking me for my last payment settlement.

A few days ago, I received an email from LSBF saying that their system does not show my payments. I forwarded the confirmation email sent by their advisor clearly stating that I have settled all my outstanding payment, but LSBF insist that they have not received my payment. This is really weird. Is LSBF an educational institution?

Hello

I have also applied for a refund, I applied early January and received all the automated confirmations and ticket number. It has now been over the already very high 45 day period for a refund to be processed.
I have sent numerous emails to numerous members of the team and have still not received a reply with the basic necessary information you would expect.
I have received no updates, nor have i received any news about the refund amount, when and how it will be refunded.

I have tried to raise an official complaint and again have not received any response from anyone.
Could someone please suggest a name: someone who I could contact to get some sort of answers?

Kind Regards,
Hiren Pancholi

I completely agree LSBF is the meanest and greediest college in the UK. I also did MBA last year and still awaiting my results and worst thing is they are not bothering to reply. I am going to make a formal complain about them with high authorities. This college should be banned as all my class mates hate LSBF and I which I never had to talk to this meanest institute ever again - I WOULDNOT RECOMMEND THIS COLLEGE TO ANY STUDENT FOR ANY COURSE - ESPECIALLY OVERSEAS STUDENTS SHOULD NEVER COME HERE. THEY SHOULD GO TO KAPLAN OR BPP WHICH IS MUCH BETTER. LSBF should be ashamed of their attitude towards student and I wish UKBA ban this college...! I just need my results..Can you please let me know if you are interested in taking this matter further and want to make a formal complain about LSBF in that case please contact me. Thanks

Hi all. I am also a victim of LSBF. I got enrolled for full time CIMA in 2009. I had an offer to pay my fees in installments. But when I reached FBT Birmingham, they refused to accept any installment offer. After about 3 months discussion, I found that they have made miss-commitments. I have provided all the proofs but LSBF does not cooperate. I do not any international student to join LSBF or FBT.

Hello guys,

To everyone that is not getting answers from LSBF, I suggest you try what I did: send an e-mail copied to everyone in LSBF (teaches, secretaries, administration, etc - you can have a full list in their website) and someone will answer you (for good or for worst). Here is a list of some addresses I sent my e-mail and got an answer:
admissions@lsbf.org.uk
bramsamy@studyinteractive.org
dmason@lsbf.org.uk
neiltailor@lsbf.org.uk
parttimestudents@lsbf.org.uk
pghelpdesk@LSBF.org.uk
pstewart@lsbf.org.uk
rsowerby@lsbf.org.uk
Unfortunately, only if you piss them of they will get to answer you...
Does anyone has got a refund? Cause all I am reading is people complaining and I don't see a single history from someone that acctualy has had a refund application accepted.

I got accepted for the MIB for the next fall, what do you think I should go or I shouldn't go, please provide me with clear reasons for both options thank you very much

LSBF IS A COMPLETELY USELESS SCHOOL. THEY ARE PAINFULLY USELESS! IF U LIKE YOURSELF DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS COLLEGE. GO TO KAPLAN OR BPP OR LCA. LSBF IS JUST A MONEY MAKING VENTURE. THEY DONT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING.

horrible school! guarantee that going to this school would be the worst thing that would ever happen to you. They do not care about you, all they want is your money. they are cheats! Do not go to LSBF!

My visa WAS expiring n 22nd April 2013. I already have submiited all the documents (educational documents - MSc Physics - Diploma in Business Studies, CIMA Registration Reciept, Language course, visa documents and reference letters ) to LSBF . LSBF issued me an offer letter for CIMA Course from Glyndwr University. My advisor Miss Ashu Mogla from London campus asked me to submit the 3000 pounds to LSBF account in order to issue me a Glyndwr university CAS after. she told me that I will get the CAS NEXT morning.3rd April 2013 as I submiited 3000 pounds on 2nd April 2013. but 3rd April not any CAS was issued to me. I contacted the admission department they emailed me to appear in english exam in Lsbf. I also passed internal english exam of LSBF with 76% marks. I waited till last day of my visa to get the CAS letter but unfortunately I did not recieve any from LSBF. i mean why THEY HAVE GIVEN ME OFFER LETTER AND MY 3000 POUNDS IF THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO ISSUE ME MY CAS. UKBA IS DOING NOTHING. I NOW HAVE APPLEID FOR REFUND but I am very worried . they are playing with laws and future of students they are robbing students on the name of education. they playing dogy things. i dono what to donow and how now they can refund all of our fees. im very down becuase of this. the advisors sitting there, they all are misguiding and cheating students just taking money and ruining students lives :(

I enrolled with LSB to do my ACCA course i was made an offer, paid for the package and was told after making the payment that the special was no longer available to me even though i called on the said day before making the payment and was told that it was available to me. I keep getting promises about a decision is to be made by a committee and i am yet to receive that decision. I only made the payment because i was told the offer was still available to me. I do not even know why it has to go to a committee for a decision when i acted on information LSB provided. Now i am making a formal complaint to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator and also having dialogue with my lawyer to sue LSB for stealing my money of 825 pounds equivalent to $123, 750 Jamaican dollars plus for the inconvenience caused. It is obvious that especially with international students LSB has no regards for us. i will not rest until i receive my money back also LSB will pay me for the high inconvenience caused. Also the rep i spoke to in the refunds dept does not know anything about customer service. For a so-called professional institution i am now thinking how much of a scammer LSB is!

loye
student# I100794; Ticket# 11496

LSBF COLLEGE REFUND ISSUES THOSE SEEKING REFUNDS FROM LSBF COLLEGE, PLEASE EMAIL ME ON pkanji007@yahoo.co.uk as I am currently fighting a court case for one of my friends. Regards Ash...

Hello guys,
At the moment, i am preparing my documents for enrolling in LSBF and going to pay a deposit for finance in bachelors. Please, help me guys. What should i do ? What is the obvious problem in LSBF except problem with receiving refund ? Education is inadequate ? Or diploma ? I'm really confused. i don't know what to do. Before i've heard lots of good about it but now reading these comments i am really shocked.

i had applied for the same course cima glyndwr.They gave me offer letter on 26th march.My visa was expiring on 12th.They didnt gave me cas letter for that course they told me that glyndwr is not satisfied with my application so they are not going to me give cas from glyndwr but however they said they can offer me lsbf cas letter.I told them i need my £3000 deposit back.My advisor told me as it will take 3/4 weeks but i will definetly get it coz it wasnt my fault they coudnt manage to get me cas from glyndwr university.they did issued me offer letter than what was the problem.i have seen hundreds of students who didnt got cas letter like me and offered lsbf cas.some of them took lsbf cas and some of them went to some other uni.Then they told me, for refund u have to apply for ticket and i did.After waiting 3 weeks they canceled my refund saying all the deposit paid is non refundable as it is metioned in their terms and conditions.so u r not going get even a single penny back but however u can take online course.
So right now i am planing to go for legal fight.Our money is our blood and they are sucking our blood.Our parents work really hard to pay for our education and this kind professional thiefs are stealing our money like that.its not gonna happen.

Anyone thinking to join their CIMA+MBA ACCA +MBA or International MBA program should think it twice. I have graduated with their MBA program affiliated with University of Wales in January 2013, but still not received any MBA certificate, transcripts at all, there is the same situation with my every batch mate, most of us are not in UK anymore and have tirelessly wrote to LSBF about MBA certification but once in month we receive e: mail from them that its been getting prepared and it is from last six months.. I have wrote to UOW and they are unable to help. We are now at no where. LSBF is a fishy institute which rely heavily on its marketing to play around with the future of developing countries students, and their paid agent will mislead you in every step, so be very cautious and avoid them at every cost otherwise you will be wasting your time and money like us

I have also been victim of LSBF jaws. Never never never never never never never never go to LSBF or FBT Global for any course. They offer so much but all their offers lapse after you get admission. Never...never...never go to LSBF or FBT

I too have been taken for a ride. My course consists of 6 modules I passed the first 5 and the final one I failed by 2%. I do not believe this as I know I should've got over 65-70%. Surprisingly both internal markers derived the same score which I can not believe as this is not a mathsl paper but a theoretical one. I'm not having any joy with any members of staff and will be taking legal action.

I have just found out that Ministry of Education, Canada has shut down the operation of LSBF Canada due to non compliance of law and failure to pay a total penalty amount of CAD $64000. I called the LSBF London office and continuously asked then if their office in Canada was still operational and they had no answer for that. They kept spinning the conversation around. I know several students who are expecting refund amounts of close to CAD 9000... please everyone... listen closely... they are doing some big fraud with everyone. I am proceeding with legal action against them and i do think it would be a good idea for everyone to keep calling up their regional and head office and pestering them for a certain answer on when the refund amount will be issued... if we work together we might be able to get out money back!
Find this information at the following link: Find LSBF under unregistered institutions...there are 2 notices issued against them.
http://www.tcu.gov.on.ca/pepg/audiences/pcc/notices.asp?n=2013

I am a current student of LSBF although not been to class since I have been blocked the school website. I got the contact of a representative of the institution from my sister who was applying for ACCA . I also contacted the same guy to as about the requirement s to study . I did explain to him that I wanted to take three courses or six as those were the courses I could Afford however he mentioned that to get a visa renewal I will need to take up 12 courses. I went ahead with registration with ACCA global and got one exemption so I notified the adviser . To my surprise he registered me for 12 courses instead of 11 and not acknowledging my exemption.He however claimed that the reason were because the amount for 11 papers were more than 12 which found very difficult to believe. Because of this error he decided to downgrade my courses to 9 .My problem is that they are hardly trained as course advisers and more of sales representatives. This guy has put me through a payment plan without explanations of how it works .I only knew that I would have to pay £50 monthly to service the payment plan when went there.He also unilaterally declined me for discounts which could have allowed me to settle in full posibly because he was biased or discriminatory .I have stated my case to the school in the last two weeks to his boss and the complaint department .Although the only person trying to help me who is Angela Foo has no jurisdiction but the person who has is directing me back to the same adviser to sort how a resolution .What else do you think the result will be . He has basically stated to me that he didn't mis inform me and he knows how to do his job so I dont have a choice than to go on the payment plan. As of today he is threatening me with the UKBA possibly to have me deported . I know the UK is trying to reduce number of immigrants but I don't think this should be done by swindling genuine students. I am at home now after paying £2740 I am been forced to sign the payment plan or they report me to UKBA . Its a lose lose situation with LSBF. I wished I never went there and I will never advise anyone to try the school. Kaplan is quite better .

I agree my experience at Lsbf has also been a nightmare staff are not professional, rude unsympathetic and advantage takers of vulnerable people. It is important all students band together and fight for our rights our money and education is at stake and only through us uniting and taking action will things change maybe we need to report Lsbf to watchdog as it breaks my heart hearing all these real sad cases.

I am a current student in Lsbf who came to uk for the first time in 2011. I never knew anything about the rules or anything. I started with my ACCA course but realized that it is not my cup of tea, so i decided to quit. I emailed my advisor to change my course towards master but he replied :-
I am currently working away from the office so can not check our database.
Which intake are you due to start your MBA? Unless you are eligible for the MBA and have at least attempted all of your ACCA papers, you will be unable to start your MBA.
In the above message it is clearly mentioned that i can start once my mba intake is due which was june 2013 and atleast attempted all acca papers. He didnt even advised me to start on fresh application .I was new so never knew myself and was dependend on my advisor.So i decided to wait till 2013 and atleast attempt all the papers. Now i finished all my credits and june 2013 is here, now he is telling me i have to pass my papers. I applied for fresh application for masters no dual programme. I got managerial experience for 2 years. I submitted m, y reference but now they say i cant get as in eyes of UKBA i dont have any progress. I agree i passed only 1 paper in 2 years but for one semester i took deferment and another semester i was in india due to my health issues. so my 1 year out of it was already wasted due to my illness. No one has control towards illness but still i tried attempting all the papers. Everybody can try but results are not in your hands you can either pASS or fail but atleast i tried. Y is lsbf not ready to take fresh application. this is ridiculous. Moreover i went to the manager of my advisor he said send me all documents i will fight your case but he took almost one month to tell me that unfortunately he cant do anything. I emailed him almost everyday but i get his reply once or twice after week. so now i dont know where do i go and how do i get justice towards my studies.
All i want to say that is i agree i did mistake by taking acca but now i want to rectify my mistake and study but no one is helping me. I want to study and go back thats all i need. My advisor is telling me for refund but i dont need any refund all i need is compensation towards my studies as i missed all my lesson.
I am very frustated because of LSBF. I am almost moving towards depression because of it and if something happens to me because of all the mess created by LSBF me and my family will take serious action towards it. Even now i am looking for some solution if any one knows please let me know. I am
fed up to the extent that i am ready to report UKBA about my case. I dont care if i end up going back but i really need some action . Either Lsbf takes me seriously or I need someone who can help to fight my case.
thank you

Hello zamman and everyone i am facing the same kind of problems like you all. I am badly frustated and sick of lsbf. I want to take strict action against lsbf if all of you are there we all can unite and take action against it. One person can not do anything so if i am not getting solution i will like to do formal complain against lsbf. Please contact me by replying on karishmasheth@yahoo.com. We all can fight against lsbf together for all our time and money wasted.
with thanks
karishma sheth

LSBF external degrees and masters programmes such as MBA and MSc have little or no value. They are simply useless titles sold to mostly foreign students.
Anyone who wants to do a degree or masters programme should check the following:

http://www.topuniversities.com/where-to-study

http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-ranking-2013

http://www.economist.com/whichmba/full-time-mba-ranking

If you are owed money, you can take legal action to get your money back. The best way to do is to go for a class action as a group. You need a good lawyer to help you.
You can also get the legal fees and other costs, if you are successful in your claim.
If you need help, reply to my message. I can give you advice on the best approach.

Hi All, after having had a dispute over a refund of a small sum of money paid to LSBF in error, sadly I discovered that there are hundreds of students experiencing the same issue albeit for larger sums of money . It seems that individually, no single student has the resources to get their voice heard or take any legal action. The way I see it, the only way forward is for everyone to unite against LSBF. I find that the most effective way would be through social media. I urge you all to use Facebook and Twitter to spread the word and encourage people to watch the following documentary regarding LSBF aired on 23/10/2013 by ITV. The Exposure team sent members of staff to work undercover in LSBF and found a plethora of problems filtering through every single department within the institution - if one can even call them that! This documentary will not be on the ITV iplayer indefinitely so PLEASE DO YOUR BEST. https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/exposure/series-21/episode-1-exposure-undercover-colleges. Sincerely, frustratedAndDisappointed ex-LSBF student.

LSBF has been ripping off students for years, and getting away with it. However, the tide has now turned, and they will soon be prosecuted, and deservedly so.

You can find a blog about them here:-

lsbf.blogspot.com

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