Hi everyone
I am wondering whether anyone else on here has done a fast track type training course and if so how it went for them? I parted with £12500 (don't laugh) for 3 training courses. By half way through the second I admitted what I already knew, it was basically a con and that they were more interested in making money than training.
The training was utterly appalling, with instructors setting mock exams then falling asleep at the front of the class, setting tasks then disappearing for ages leaving us all scratching our heads and effectively trying to train each other, telling us that they preferred to make the training more like a building site, and that we wouldn't have anyone looking over our shoulders once we finished training etc, we were literally just given diagrams and left to get on with it with no trainer input whatsoever for hours on end. The whole thing was a huge con job, with the most shoddy level of training I have ever seen, and I have been on several training courses over the last 20 years.
Obviously I have complained and asked for the money back on the course I haven't yet started, the rest of the course I have just cancelled and also a percentage of the electricians course I attended that was a complete farce. I ended up buying an online course to help me understand the rubbish the instructor at the training centre was coming out with.
There might be some people on here that have had great experiences with these course, however my advice is to steer well clear. They don't train you to do a job, they train you pass practical assessments and pass exams. You don't get the level of training and support that the sales guys sell to you and when you complain you get nowhere.
Its been an expensive mistake for me however I will be posting on every forum I can find in the hope other people don't get stung also.
I am holding off naming and shaming the company in question until I speak again with my solicitor tomorrow but my intention is that anyone that googles their name finds some random post cataloguing their disgraceful behaviour.
I have read a number of posts on your forums advising people against these fast track courses. I wish I had found them earlier as i couldn't agree more with that advice now!!
If anyone wants to PM with their own experiences then please do feel free to do so.
I am wondering whether anyone else on here has done a fast track type training course and if so how it went for them? I parted with £12500 (don't laugh) for 3 training courses. By half way through the second I admitted what I already knew, it was basically a con and that they were more interested in making money than training.
The training was utterly appalling, with instructors setting mock exams then falling asleep at the front of the class, setting tasks then disappearing for ages leaving us all scratching our heads and effectively trying to train each other, telling us that they preferred to make the training more like a building site, and that we wouldn't have anyone looking over our shoulders once we finished training etc, we were literally just given diagrams and left to get on with it with no trainer input whatsoever for hours on end. The whole thing was a huge con job, with the most shoddy level of training I have ever seen, and I have been on several training courses over the last 20 years.
Obviously I have complained and asked for the money back on the course I haven't yet started, the rest of the course I have just cancelled and also a percentage of the electricians course I attended that was a complete farce. I ended up buying an online course to help me understand the rubbish the instructor at the training centre was coming out with.
There might be some people on here that have had great experiences with these course, however my advice is to steer well clear. They don't train you to do a job, they train you pass practical assessments and pass exams. You don't get the level of training and support that the sales guys sell to you and when you complain you get nowhere.
Its been an expensive mistake for me however I will be posting on every forum I can find in the hope other people don't get stung also.
I am holding off naming and shaming the company in question until I speak again with my solicitor tomorrow but my intention is that anyone that googles their name finds some random post cataloguing their disgraceful behaviour.
I have read a number of posts on your forums advising people against these fast track courses. I wish I had found them earlier as i couldn't agree more with that advice now!!
If anyone wants to PM with their own experiences then please do feel free to do so.
