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If you 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 ... Read review
Advantages: None at all Disadvantages: Costs a fortune and information is outdated and of poor qaulity.
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 ... ...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.
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 you it involves having your own instructor, getting lots of multi media training and in depth technical information, attending practical training days and becoming a fully training PC technician.
The reality is you sign up for a finance agreement which says you will pay £62 a month for the next two years or so until you have paid then about £1500.
The course work you get to complete is out of date; full of errors looks really cheap and nasty and is far too basic. It come in some nasty red folders and if you bought a decent Pc hardware book or A+ study guide you would get at least 10 times the information and much more in-depth as well as actually being current.
If you 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 you have yourself is unable to expand on any thing at all. In short they don't seem to have any knowledge of I.T at all and can only quote from the course works itself.
For instance my tutor didn't even the know the difference between token ring and Ethernet and didn't really understand whet they were at all, which considering they are the tutors I found a little embarrassing for them.
In short after a few phone calls to them you don't bother as they can't really help you.
The practical training offered is given near to the end of the course .I live in Newcastle and was told I would need to travel to West Brom or London and I would have to pay for it myself.(I was told by the salesman that the courses were local.)
The multimedia training you get on CD-ROM is comical it is a computer based version of a paper PC you are sent through the post which you have to stick together using Velcro …amazing.
At the end of the course you are kindly informed that you will have to pay for you A+ exams yourself.
Interesting since you have finished the course and you are still not A+ qualified which is what the course is to be.
I phoned scheidegger to raise this issue with them and was actually shouted down at down the phone to the effect of
"Well have you got that in writing, no so tough make a complaint"
So in effect the scheidegger course does not only not provide you with the knowledge to become A+ qualified but it doesn't even provide you with the exam to verify the knowledge you most certainly haven't got from having completed this terrible course.
The best thing about this course is that you feel like you are being ripped off so much that you should at least finish the course to try getting something from it but unfortunately the Pc master scheidegger cert you get from it is not worth anything to anyone and certainly wont get you a job.
Another thing I forgot to mention is that the salesman tells you there is a scheidegger website with a student forum with downloads and advice this did not exist and just redirects you too the page that tries to sell you another course.
Conclusion Go to college or buy a decent A+ book this course is absolute waste of money a total hard sell by a sales man. who glorifies the course and the organisation of scheidegger into the complete opposite to what they are.
Be Warned Stay away ,,,or you will regret.
I'll try and post some photographs of the course work so you can see what I mean by the word cheap and nasty.
*****UPDATE****** here is a link to the so called scheidegger web site which is supposed to offer students so much go have a look but try not to laugh and notice the links only take you to registration ,,go on click on the flames LMAO http://www.mrss.demon.co.uk/scheidegger2/scheweb.htm
****UPDATE FROM THE BBC***
Scheidegger
IT training is big business.
Words like "multi skilling" and "upskilling" are part of every day language, so it's no surprise IT course providers are raking in millions from hopefuls looking to get ahead.
Metropolitan International Schools Ltd trade as Skillstrain and Scheidegger.
They claim to be Europe's number one for computer training, having been in business since 1947.
And their most recent accounts show a turnover in excess of £18 million.
Impressive numbers, but not so impressive are the numerous complaints received by the BBC about the Skillstrain "course advisors" responsible for student enrolment.
Posing as a would-be web designer Inside Out reporter Nick Lawrence contacted Skillstrain.
A couple of days later "course advisor" Dave turned up.
Dave not only promised a job in web design at the end of the course, he also told Nick the course certification he was selling for £2,500 was required by a lot of companies.
He also claimed Skillstrain worked in association with Manpower and they were advised by Elan IT on the content of their courses.
No relationship
Manpower told us whilst there used to be a relationship between the two organisations.
As far as they were concerned, their association was at an end and they had been in contact with SKillstrain over the past 18 months requesting them to stop using the Manpower name.
Elan IT told us they have never advised Skillstrain on the content of their courses, and the certification Nick was being offered was certainly not a requirement in the UK and was, in fact, largely unheard of.
Nick handed over footage of his meeting with "Dave" to Colin Steed, Chief Executive of the Institute of IT Training who give accreditation to SKillstrain.
Colin told us the "course advisor's" behaviour was unacceptable and has said that he would investigate.
Skillstrain told us they were not at fault because they had contracted out their student enrolment to a company called Multimedia Computer Training, and also said:
"Since 1947 (59 years) Scheidegger has trained, under its various brands, over 5 million people in 12 European countries.
"We invite feedback from students and take any complaints we receive very seriously…
"It is not our policy to guarantee jobs at the end of our courses... If it turns out Multimedia Computer Training Ltd and or its advisor have broken this policy, we will take this very seriously and take further action against them... As far as we are concerned, we have a current agreement with Manpower."
Multimedia Computer Training Ltd say that they don't believe such false representations were made - if they were, then disciplinary procedures will be taken against the salesperson.
Advantages: Opions to study at home Disadvantages: price of course(s)
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)
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Advantages: None Disadvantages: Coarse Material out of date
...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
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Advantages: none Disadvantages: a very unpleasent feeling
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 ...
prairie 05.06.2008
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Advantages: You can study at home Disadvantages: Not widely recognised
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 ...
TTeearu 10.08.2000
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Advantages: Home learning is a real bonus Disadvantages: Sales pitch sucks.
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
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