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I decided to do this course "CIW Website Design Manager" with Skills Train. To try and better my carrier. Even though I have found the going to be tough at times with trying to hold down a full time job and having the time to care for my two children with learning disabilaties who can take up most of your days off. But I am a fighter and I don't like to give up so easy.
The course has taught me a lot about Computers and the Internet that I did not know about, even though I thought I knew a lot about it. Thanks for giving me that chance to better my carrier.
-Gareth
I think for my self I am working very hard to get in line, because I have to work to pay my for MBA school, and also pay for this trainning I am doing and pay for my bills, my room, I dont have a computer, always have to borrow a computer or go to the cybercafe to send my TMA, I am not able to do enougth search, but I am trying to do my best.I dont Have enought time to study at home, I am always studing on the bus, when I am traveling and during the weekend when I am suppose to be focus on studing I have got to the cybercafe, I am tired.I dont know what to say but for the moment I am in the line.
-Fatoumata
I am currently a househusband to my wife who has been suffering with a personally emotionional illness now for the last six years, I attend to all the housework, shopping and gardening ect.
we have four children a 21yr old daughter and working mother with her own family life, a 18yr old son sharing a house and working, a 17yr old son who is still at home, and still looking for work since leaving school in September 2006.
and finally a 13 yr old daughter still in high school.
I took on this training course in an effort to attain the qualifications that will greatly improve the cances of me getting me back into a first class job, to hopefully work from home and still be able to support my wife emotionally.
and finally to improve our lifestyle financially in the process.
I had no previous experience of Web Technology, Web Design or other computer skills before I started this course, I had only used a pc to surf the web or play games on. During this course I have gained the knowledge and experience which has helped me to resolve a lot of problems with my pc such as virus attacks, lock ups, and system failures.
I have also had the oppertunity to assist a friend who's Pc suffered a virus attack, I was able to instruct on how to firstly rid the virus and then advise the best ways to protect his system in the future, to which he was most gratefull.
Finaly I would like to share with everyone that I gave up smoking as of October 28th 2006 with NO patches or other aid just shear will power, and I have not smoked since.
-Gerald
I have been helping a friend with computer work in my spare time as they can't afford currently to take lessons - this will help them get a promotion at work.
-Peter
I fell far behind with my course due to moving house and I am in the process of getting a mortgage I've had to work a stupid amount of hours in work and now feel im starting to get back on track with my course and am getting really good results with my TMA's
-Sean
At first I wanted to start the course, was eager etc, until........ I opened the Course Work file. I looked at it............ and again looked at it, and wondered had I done the right thing in enrolling.
I was overwhelmed by the content and amount of information. To say that I was daunted by the challenge, was a big understatement.
However, I started to plough through the course work.
After the first Two or Three sections I began to enjoy the work and I was learning.
I still feel a little daunted by some sections, but I am achieving good results and I have set my sights on finishing and achieving the Qualification.
However, I wonder how I can remember all the information to pass the final exam.
-Frederick
I am studying MCSE course with skills train, I found it very useful. At the begining I had very little knowledge about computers and always wanted to become a computer expert. Since I have started this course with skills train it seems that I have learned and gained lots of knowledge and information regarding computers.
Lots of my friends when they face any problem with thier computers, they contact me to fix that and I am really happy for the course I am doing the materials are all excellent and also the support of the tutors.
A few weeks ago I was in internet cafe with a friend of mine who runs that small business and one of his customer downloaded some programes and it was attached with torjan virus so he started complaining regrading his network and that PC which was runing slowly and also the PC was stacking all the time. So he turned his face to me and tole me that as far as I know you are doing a computer course for almost a year so can you do somthing and sort out this problem. I was really embarresed and in my hearth I was saying oh God please do not make me down infront of these guys, so I started searching so I found a message was saying c: drive been affected by torjan virus so I installed norton live update system and scan his c: drive and found the exact address of the virus and carry out till I delete the virus and reboot the computer it was working as it was before. He was really happy for what I did and he offered me a part time job as PC Service Technician, I was very pride of myself. Now I am doing a part time job with him hopefuly very soon he will recruit me as full time and suddenly my dreams comes true.
I proud of my hard study and the great and excellent materials of skills train as well.
-Ghulman
Behind every success there's always somebody , in my case my tutor team are the reason for my achievements.child minding is not a child's play , most especially if it has to do with a set of baby twins and a four year old girl, knowing that their parent will be home between 9 to 10pm at night. with this conditions I have been able to finish section 1 part A, with a minimum score of 75 and 80 percent and a maximum of 90 ,98 , 100 percent. I am currently in section in part B. I know by the time I am through with my MCSE course skillstrain would have completely trained A SOMEBODY OUT OF NOBODY.
-Victor
Behind every success there's always somebody , in my case my tutor team are the reason for my success.you will quite agree with me that child minding is not a child's play ,most especially if it has to do with a set of twins and a four years old girl,knowing that you have some daily activities to carry out. At the end of the you only have little or or no time to study.In this conditions I have been able to finish section 1 part A with two minimum scores of 75 and 80 percent and a maximum of 90, 98 and 100 percent respectively and I am currently studying section 1 part B pre preparing to submit TMA 09 .It has not been easy with motivational advice from the tutor team I have been able to stay focus
-Victor
The materials are very well done and easy to undestand for anybody and the tutors are helpful. I passed my CompTIA A+ and N+ and now I am stdying CCNA. Good luck!!!
-Bogdan
I am currently facing imminent threat of redundancy, which, at 50 years of age, leaves me feeling very worried and uncertain about my future prospects. My wifes job with the local council is also somewhat uncertain and so I feel the pressure is definitely on!
However, I continue to keep up with regular studies at the Network+ course and feel I am making good progress despite the stress.
-Paul
I have worked hard under extreme pressure over the last few months. This has included two deaths in the family and finding out that my spouse has arthritis and needs a hip replacement done.
Despite these set backs I have kept a high level of pass marks for each TMA and hope to continue this work.
-Peter
I had basic computer skills at first but since I began studying this course I feel very confident in using the computer and explainig some terms which I probably would never have known, I have also helped people in using a PC.
-Muhammad
I cant believe how well ive done ive been a fishmonger for twenty years so computers have always been a bit futuristic to me but ive always liked them I do believe in hard work and when you put the effort in you usually get the rewards I would like to say to anyone who feels unsure about a computer course then please dont, I was the same my last two results were 100%
-Anthony
As growing up from a relatively rural area in China, I really started to come into contact with computers at the age of 11 when I moved abroad to UK with my parents. Ever before that age computers always have been a myths to me, Ialways thought that only the cleverest people can understand and perform tasks on a computer. All I ever could do was to use some word documents and type some courseworks for school and play PC games of course, I never dared to go any deeper into computers than that, because I know it's too hard and complicated and it would be just a waste of time for me. As time goes on I started to notice that a lot of friends around my age are computer experts, they can do programming, computer repairs and what I'm trying to say is that they have a very good understanding of the computers and can do lots of pratical and useful things with it. So I decided to tackle my fear to this subject and that's the reason why I choose to study Web Design, one to challenge myself and two to learn some very useful skills for life.
At start of the Web Design course I felt nervous and had doubts about my ability to fully complete the course, I did not have the confidence to read through the books thoroughly and got relatively poor marks for the assignments. It all started to change when one day I got a letter from Skills-Train containing an assignment which I only got 47%. This put me into thinking that: I'm a human being too, why can't I do the things that everybody else can?! So that afternoon I spent 3 solid hours reading through the course note for preparing for the next assignment, which was about the Programming Language. I red through, I understood every single word and I actually enjoyed it! And for that assignment I got 100%, for all the later TMAs I got 90% and above.
Now I've started to do the experiments with the IT knowledge I've learnt, trying to understand the programming languages that are not in the course books, such as some of the assembly languages, because I'm interested. Sometimes I even spend some times discussing about Scripting languages with friends and ask how they do this and do that, I'm now filled with confidence to learn about the computer and to tackle and understand the most basic make up of the computers.
Since joined the web design course, not only have I filled my brain with basic computer knowledge that I've never knew before, which has set me a good foundation for understanding the computers in a deeper manner. But also te course enabled me to understand that nothing is impossible to learn, as long as you concentrate in what you do and put the real hard work in, you can do it. This to me is an enormous achievement and will benefit me for the rest of my life.
-Yixun
Despite not having a computer and Access to the internet at the start of my course, I feel I have achieved quite a lot in my short time with skills train.
I have successfully completed my first two assignments and have just submitted my 3rd, all in the space of ten days.
With limited facilities at home and at work, I feel I have juggled everything pretty well and made full use of time management.(Work/travelling/rugby/household chores, etc)
I am really determined to succeed in this industry and this training will get me to my chosen goal. If I dont succeed, I only have myself to blame.
With good results so far, and hopefully number 3 will follow in the same fold.
-Dean
I HAVE ACHIEVED ALOT BY TAKEN COURSE WHICH IS CIW UNDER SKILL TRAIN. NOW I CAN USE THE INTERNET AS NEVER BEFORE AND ALSO ON MY LITTLE KNOWLEDGE ON HTML TAGS, I CAN DESIGN SIMPLE WEB SITE.FINALLY, BY STUDYING WITH SKILL TRAIN , IT HAS BOAST MY CONFIDENCE BY LEARNING ON MY OWN WHICH I COULD'NT DO BEFORE AND ALSO HELPING ME TO MAINTAIN MY HIGH SCORES IN MY TMA.
-Samuel
It has been very difficult to manage studies with a toddler and a seven year old son at home. But I have now decided that I will have to work twice as hard in order to achieve this. Nothing is impossible if one has a desire to achieve it.
-Fabian
In the last month I have achieved a very large amount of goals. One being not knowing anything about XHTML then after some really outstanding lessons understanding XHTML to a really good degree. Being in the British Army I find it hard to make time for the course I am doing, but thanks to the amount of satisfaction I get out of doing every lab and learning something new I make the time.
-Navid
I have achieved much more then I expected myself to so far. I am on my seventh assignment and I am also juggling mother hood and a full time job. I am hoping to finish this course before I get married in November. all the tutors have been a great help when I have needed it
-Rachael
Over the past 3 months I have had to manage to find the time to study, while under pressure from working up to 12 hours per day, coming home and doing all the house work and cooking as my wife is pregnant and has a disorder called SPD (symphysis pubis dysfunction), and giving up smoking while still attaining high marks on my TMA.
-Jayton
I started my MCSE course a month ago (January 2007). I am a single mother and live with my 21 months baby. My first language is French. I am learning English at the same time (four hours a week). I have achieved very good my assignments. I am working very hard because I need to pass the course and start a good job which will help me to take care of my little son.
Thanks to Skills Train for it's brillant idea to provide this kind of course.
-Rosine
