Scheidegger

I did the scheidegger PC Master course and I so wish I hadn't. Basically this is how it works. You respond to a paper add claiming you can earn £20,000 a year as a Pc technician, A salesman comes to your house a pretends that you might not be good enough to get into their college as they are fairly selective, making you want to join to avoid rejection. He lies and tells you that you will become Comptia A+ certified if you do the course. He tells ...
...think about it compare Scheidegger course = £1500 Decent A+ book = £40 It's not a hard value for money decision. At the end of the course modules you send an assessment via email to your so called instructor who I'll mention in a moment. She then sends them back marked with advice on any corrections. This part runs fairly smoothly. The only problem is if you have any question for the instructor she can only manage to quote from the same information ...

spartan1 07.06.2004 (28.01.2007) · Read full review
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Scheidegger have been in business now for over 50 years and have had more than 5,000,000 student from 11 countries. Abbreviations: MCSA =Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator MCSE =Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer I recently Completed my A+,N+ and MCSA in computer hardware. You have a variety of courses to choose from such as the prestigious A+ and N+ Cirtification from Comptia to the hardest one of all the MCSE or the MCSA. Before you ...
...free and only availible to Scheidegger students. ***Guarantee*** They have a guarantee if you do not pass the course(s) on the first time. The guarantee is that if you fail and fail again you can take the course free of charge until you either request your £3000 back or until you pass. The guarantee is brilliant if you fail, This is what i call customer service and value for money. ***Guarantee of Work*** At the end when you have completed ...

Sexy_Young_God 28.03.2004 (17.04.2004) · Read full review
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...If they are formerly , Scheidegger I won't be going ahead with them now. I had a bad experience with Scheidegger about a year and half ago. I enrolled on a Web Design Managers coarse, the "Advisor" gave a sales pitch stating that you get a personal tutor with a team of 5 back up tutors, this was not the case, it took a few times to actually get through on the phone and it came across as a call center as opposed to a teaching section. I HAD to ring ...
...to you is never use Scheidegger or Skills Train if that is what they are now known as (more reserch on that one I think). Also if you do a coarse through these training companies, finance it through a credit agreement, that way you can break from it at any time if the service is not upto scratch, with a minimum loss. Regards Mick ...

Little_Mick 11.10.2006 · Read full review
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I recently signed with Skillstrain and subsequently realised I was told many lies and half truths. I was incorrectly lead to beleive I would be sponsored and after a 3 hour interview I miraculously 'passed' their aptitude test and was 'offered a place on the course'. It seems I was only just 'lucky' to get in. I can't begin to tell you what was said but among the lies was that only people over 35, that there was 5 local tutors and that Skillstrain ...
...Skillstrain were connected to government and therefore not a private company. I was asked to sign in the appropriate places and give my bank details. I did this as well as querying why I wasn't paying Skillstrain, in my innocence I didn't realise I was taking on a finance agreement as I was told this was 'their bank' i would be paying through. I was not left any copies of anything I signed thus taking away an quiet time I could have read through ...

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I wasn't impressed by the Scheidegger course I did (Information Technology). A lot of it I already knew, and the stuff that I didn't know, I found it difficult to get help with when I needed it. There was pathetically little hands-on computer work, but worst of all, since finishing the course, I've found that no-one has heard of Scheidegger and my "qualification" is not worth the paper it's printed on. I'm sorry to be so damning but I really felt ...

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Sales pitch all the way. A lady turned up in a very nice looking Mercedes, well dressed and very professional looking. I won't go into too much detail but she sat for over an hour doing my heading. Despite me knowing exactly what I want to do, how I want to do it, what/who/where I want to get a job after the training and despite the training I require only costing roughly £500 she insisted that I couldn't just take up the one training course.... ...
...cost of £3276. Yeah, right. I played along with her and agreed that this would be a good route, then when she said about 'enrolling' me I (naturally) said I would need to discuss this with family before taking up such a large responsibility... She turned a little cold at that point. But okay, this was Thursday and she said it'd be fine to wait until Saturday at the latest as this would be the last point I could sign up for monthly payments. At this ...

rhertzwesol 11.02.2008 · Read full review
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...a brighter future but then Scheidegger were revealed for what they are. From the moment the Sales man arrived at my house i felt he was trying to make me believe that i would be honoured if i made it onto their course. The whole time at my house he was withholding important information and giving incorrect information. I completed the usual written test as everyone does and passed with flying colors. He then formally welcomed me (After calling his ...
...end of November. When contacting Scheidegger today to advise of this they were very unhelpful and say that i am not covered by the insurance as i have not paid the initial 3 payments of my course yet. Had i been made aware of this by the Scheidegger Course Adviser (Sales Man) I would not have signed any forms. Now what seemed liked a great idea turns out to be a dead fish. I'm stuck in a Financial Agreement, with no way of cancelling it/Paying ...

ds201 09.11.2004 · Read full review
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Hi all Please stay away from skills train. Don't let their sales people even enter your house and rob you by promising you so many good things which gona take you into nothing more than life full of stress. Please and Please don't let them take your hard earned money. Better of joining some recognised college. STAY AWAY FROM SKILLS TRAIN....... Skills train salesman promised me practical sessons near heathrow . When i rang them to arrange for ...
...is no practicals at all untill i finish my whole ccna theory a joke And on top of that i was shocked to know that there is no live lab near heathrow as i live in hayes the reason i joined them was easy for me to go near heathrow to do my practicals. I was promised by salesman i can have my practicals whenever i want to do on weekends and i can arrange them with my tutor a total bullshit he promised me. There is no tutor near heathrow . Then after ...

MALHOTRA21 04.12.2007 · Read full review
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...been studying Computersised Bookkeeping with Scheidegger since June '03, tutor support hasn't been great. I find that I have got behind in my studies due to my tutor often taking too long to send my previous assignment back to me.. As the current part of my course is computersied I cannot even go onto the next unit,until I have my previous assignment back,to correct any potential errors. But my biggest shock came just a week ago. The course fee ...
...afford. I was recently told to apply for an extension,I did so and have ended up paying them another £150, that's on top of this months payment of £65. They tell you nothing about hidden costs and you also have to arrange your own exam! Also they talk about practical tutorials held in the local area,I have never been given details of any - if they exist at all. If you really want home learning, find a more reputable course provider,not schiedegger.Please ...

Ichi22 04.09.2004 · Read full review
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I was hoping to find some where i could claim my money back, because my course i took was a waste of time. i did not realise they were giving me a loan to pay back because the guy who visited my house stayed so long that my brain was frazzled. at the time i was being made redundant and was very vulnerable. I did start the work because i was desperate to learn a new skill but it was pathetic, i'd have learned more going to the library. The people ...
...helpful either. I so wished that i'd have cancelled in time. But i didn't i sent the course work back after the agreed time, i stopped my direct debit then was harrassed after by debt collecters, i was ripped off £1,500 which i would really like back, i can't believe this course is still going. This is my experience of scheideger do not fall for this pathetic course. thanks ...

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Ive had similar problems with Computeach,,,simple things like asking for new folders,as the old one containing my course notes broke when I got home,,,asked for a new one,,,,,no answer. The in day training was ok in parts,but more joke making and talking gaming. None on my course were given student numbers,so couldn`t discuss the course on line with each other as promised. No dedicated tutors,no names either of who they were supposed to be. One ...
...papers and not training. Very poor on customer service,I`ve tried to contact them on several occasions about things and got no answers from them. To top it all,can`t even log in to my own account to even continue my training. I for sure would look at other places to do any IT course. Dave ...

Dave8646 28.01.2009 · Read full review
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...company is closely linked to Scheidegger so you become locked into the course and are unable to quit without paying the full fees. Pretty sneaky way of getting money think. Anyway I signed up when perhaps I should have reconsidered. The course material is presented in spring back binders and has tuition and assignments on CD. It all looks very polished and professional. After several weeks of doing the course I noticed that some of the info ...
...months and some complaints to Scheidegger I came to the end of my first section of the course I had chosen and was given a mock exam to do. Some of the exam questions were impossible to answer with just the course info provided. I would expect to be able to find answers to all exam questions in the course material. Unfotunately I still have about 3 years to do and £2500 to pay , unless I choose to fight them in the courts over their poor product. ...

Rob099 27.06.2006 · Read full review
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...had contacted Skillstrain about the Scheidegger course and when I got the curiculum list I was impressed, It covered ten times more than my intended HNC course and I soon realised that if i had completed the HNC i would still have needed to go on to university. I did find the cost to be fairly high, but the learning materials and support has been exceptional and is regularly updated both in the form of replacement coursework and online additions. ...
...I am now in the process of setting up my own business which was my goal. Some people have said that the information is incomplete, however like any course you are expected to do additional reading, all colleges would expect this anyway. Although the finished qualification is not recognised by educational bodies it is an industry standard qualification which several webmasters I have been in touch with either have heard of or know someone with the ...

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I also signed up with Scheidegger after an "interview" with a very pushy salesperson. I had reached a stage in my career where I was becoming desperate, I needed to find a course that covered the topics most relevent to my work as a web developer. The CIW course seemed at first the solution I had been searching for. Again, I was convinced by the salesperson that the CIW certification was globally recognised/required by employers and would guarantee ...
...Since starting the course I have had several job interviews for Web Developer posts - and was even offered a position in Oxford which is great...but it wasn't on the strength of studying for a CIW certificate. The company had never heard of the qualification. The company in question is a global publications company (whose name I won't quote for obvious reasons). This fact alone made me suspicious of Scheidegger's claims, but here's a question for ...

drykill666 11.01.2008 (10.01.2008) · Read full review
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They are liers! When one of their advisers came to my house he guaranteed that they find me a job after completion of the course. And a lot more. And I was too naive to believe them. It took me more than a year to finish that course. I could have done that in 2 months on my own, buying all materials myself which would've been much much cheaper. I was pissed with their way of teaching. Oh sorry, actually they are not teaching anything. They are just ...
...materials for a huge amount of money. And posting them to your address. I only was hoping that they will get me a job. And it took 1 year to understand what a stupid I was. When I completed the course and passed my exam I called them and reminded them about job guarantee. And what I hear? They say that they don't guarantee the job, the only thing they can do is to help me to find a job. You must be asking how? I asked them the same question? The ...

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