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for The Student Support Centre

Rating Summary based on 21 reviews

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  • 53 of 56 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    marylou2u

    4 Stars FROM 40% TO 90% IN ONE WEEK! 09/11/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Learning at your child's pace, comprehensive programme, concrete approach to child's learning.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Cost.

    A LITTLE BACKGOUND A few months back my daughter, who is 9, came home from school upset on a regular basis. She hated maths, felt she was useless at it and everyone was better than her at it. I spent countless evenings going through her workbook, explaining the homework and trying to instil some confidence in her abilities, every session ended in frustration, crying and me feeling completely helpless. After one short session I felt we were getting somewhere only to go to her room later and find her sobbing on her bed, she still didn't understand it. I felt I was going round in circles, the ... more
  • 4 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Arthurjones

    1 Star The Student Support Centre tuition 27/12/2008
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Might help some children over a short period

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Very expensive; parents tied into agreement;; very short trial period

    I received a leaflet from this company - the Student Support Centre - in 2006. As a parent with a child of 7 I was very interested. I felt help with Maths and English would probably benefit him. This is despite the fact that he was doing pretty well already. I telephoned the company and arranged a vist from on of their salesmen. The cost of the tution was not mentioned in the leaflet nor during the conversation by phone. When the salesman came I discovered he was a local man, a family man, He had beena teacher or lecturer who had dropped out of teaching because he thought there was a better ... more
  • 8 of 8 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    chris1122

    1 Star The Student Support Centre - Don't Sign Up it's a RIP OFF 30/09/2011

    Advantages Advantages None

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Expensive, poor Quality, does not engage the child

    I sat through a Sales pitch from the Student Support Centre last night. This chap came around to our house and showed us the product which was extremely poor quality and overpriced. The DVD’s he showed us looked like Open University productions from the 1970’s!!!. They were really boring and did not engage my son. I asked my son what he thought of it and he said it was boring and they have much better stuff at school. For the cost involved it was awful and I can’t see any child keeping up with this rubbish for any more than a few weeks, never mind the 4-years that the company legally tie you ... more
  • 8 of 8 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    greenqueen01

    5 Stars Student Support Centre 11/03/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Home based learning which can be done at your child's own speed. Easy to understand and follow

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    I've read a couple of reviews about the SSC programme which were the complete opposite to my experience, so I thought I'd write a review. I tried the private tutor route with my son before joining the SSC programme, but it just didn’t work for us. Time was limited to an hour a week and my son felt pressurised to cram everything into this time slot. He often felt that he didn’t have enough time to spend on areas he found tricky before he was moved onto the next topic. After the lessons he felt exhausted and upset and it made me feel like a bad parent because I couldn’t afford more lessons for ... more
  • 1 of 1 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Alwaystrying

    1 Star I couldn't find anything to support The Student Support Centre! 04/09/2009
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages I couldn't see any advantages other than it was educational content

    Disadvantages Disadvantages To expensive, No support, Old technology

    I recently had a consultant from The Student Support Centre come to my home after we received a letter home from our son's school. He showed us the programme and explained how it would help our kids with their studies and then came the price which would have been over £2900 and it didn't cover the later school years and was really based around primary and early secondary. I must admit we were both excited about helping the kids, but I thought I would check a few of the review blogs to see what everyone thought about the company and the product before we finally committed ourselves. We are so ... more
  • 7 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Shazza786

    1 Star Student Support Centre 19/01/2009
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages ok for some primary children

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Expensive, you can get the same from free websites

    The course is expensive and my children have not used it even though I am still paying for it. I have discovered that the School is paid by the Student Support Centre to allow them to send out letter/leaflets about their product which again are vague and misleading. I thought I was going to get some free help but it turns out SSC are a Sales Organisation where the sales people are delivering a script to the customer which directs the customer to agreeing to a sale. The script addresse any concerns the customer has and provides invalid cost comparisons with private tutor. No parent is going to ... more
  • 41 of 45 Ciao users found the following review helpful
    1 Star Quick review of The Student Support Centre by Letdownparent 26/11/2008
    A very expensive package, they manage to convince you how marvelous they are via their sales rep. but they do not provide any support any support after they have trapped you in a financial contract for 3 years (1800 to 3000 pounds depending on the package). so you are left with a bunch of DVDs and a monthly payment. I think paying a home tutor who can be present and monitor you child progress is worth every penny instead of paying something like student support which I believe they are cons as they lie to you about the material and support ... more
  • 3 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    unhappycustomer2008

    2 Stars STUDENT RIP OFF!! 30/12/2008
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages May help in the short-term

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Very expensive

    This is a very expensive package. It may help children with some difficulties, but with hindsight it would have been better using a tutor. I have spent £1,600 on this package - which I am paying off over a 3 year period. I was unfortunate to lose one disc and contacted them asking for a replacement. I contacted the Student Support Centre to explain that I had lost a disc and was not in a financial position to purchase another disc. They insisted that the best they could to for me was charge me £60 for the replacement. I feel completely robbed. Having spent £1,600 on material from the Student ... more
  • 2 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    PSRawly

    2 Stars The Student Support Centre 18/11/2008
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Good material

    Disadvantages Disadvantages poor support

    I have two children, 9 & 11 who have been using the material for around 2 years now. The DVD's and accompanying books are good but the support from the centre (in my opinion) is extremely poor. We unfortunately managed to lose one of the DVD's after about 6 months (my 2 year old likes to hide them!) and it was impossible to get a replacement from them; in fact they were completely unhelpful and unsympathetic about the whole thing and just suggested skipping one of the modules which my son didn't want to do and he then lost interest. They also have this very odd payment arrangement (shows as a ... more
  • 0 of 1 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    marigold1

    1 Star Student Support Centre - Rip Off! Beware 19/10/2009
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages None whatsoever

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Too expensive. Tied into a 3+ year's contract with no means of parole

    We learnt about the Student Support Centre by searching online. Unfortunately, we did not read reviews about the centre first. If only we had. Now we are tied into a 3 year contract with Barclays Partner Finance to pay £3,700 pounds and we can't get our 6year old to watch the boring DVDs. Poor child! I initially tried to force her to but it was a struggle. She didn't enjoy the DVDs. In my opinion, what makes the program terrible is that you are not allowed to pull out of the contract once you sign it. You have only 5 days right to cancel! Hardly enough time for you to get the DVDs out of the ... more
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