Has anyone doe any learn direct courses, are they any good?

What would I have to do?

I want to up my grades from GCSE and maybe do a language, or is there something similar course i could do, i dont want it interfering with my full time work, so learing from home would be best for me

Isn't there any colleges local to you? I did some GCSE resits & all my IT courses in evening classes.

i thought about that, its just more difficult with me being between rochdale and oswestry, the class i wanted to do is on a friday so its a PITA to go from warrington to rochdale (25miles) then rochdale back past warrington to Oswestry (90 miles) so thats 115 miles

From people i know that have done similar kind of things, they've said that although they make the point that you can do it in your free time once you do it you dont have free time to do anything else

I recently had a look at the learndirect courses and found that many did not actually give you a proper certification at the end of it. At the end of the day - you want something extra on your CV which will be recognised. Learndirect didnt seem the place for me.

So.....I recently enrolled at Wigan College. 3 hours a week for 2 years and hopefully I will have a Cisco CCNA

i would approach your local colleges about open learning courses,.colleges are pushing these now as they are more cost effective for them.
really depends on the course as to how much attendence would be required,something like a language may need more as the spoken part of the course would need interaction. could always hook up with a foreign student and to a trade of teaching english while they teach you there language.

Not particularly relevant but on the same kinda of topic, ive just noticed that the office next door to mine is a learn direct office!

City & Guilds is a fairly respected qualification.

sharon did computer courses with these, they not cheep

Working with this kind of query everday I will College is the best bet, close by and not as expensive as you think, plus some have funding available even if you are employed!

Good luck.

Liam

you could not get a saturday course in north shropshire college or even yale

get to spend time with h and study

www.wnsc.ac.uk
www.yale.ac.uk

i did a 16 week course when i left school in itec http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/education/itec/itec_index.htm , got city and guilds from it