SkillsTrain Reviews from Students

Getting out of hospital after my breakdown this course has helped me focus on a new life and a better job prospect.

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I GOT 93% IN MY LAST TMA!!! WHILE WORKING AND DOING LOTS OF OVERTIME! I WAS SURPRISED AS I THOUGHT THIS TOPIC WAS QUITE TECHNICAL (TMA6) AND I THOUGHT I WOULD STRUGGLE -I AM VERY PLEASED WITH MY RESULT

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APART FROM MY COMPUTER BREAKING AND NOT BEING ABLE TO AFFORD A NEW ONE I HAVE BEEN BUSY LOOKING AFTER MY NOW 1 YR OLD SON AND WORKING ALL THE HOURS GOD SENDS TO SUPORT MY FAMILY.

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MY ACHIEVEMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN GREAT BUT I'M MAKING PROGRESS. I HAVE JUST BEEN MADE REDUNDANT IN MY JOB. SO FOR ME TO GET BACK INTO STUDYING AT MY AGE IS A NEW STEP. I DID FIND IT HARD AS I DO NOT HAVE A COMPUTER AT HOME WITH INTERNET ACESS I HAVE TO GO TO MY MOTHERS HOUSE. BUT I AM PUTTING IN THE EFFORT AND PASSING TESTS AND IM PROUD FOR THE CHANGE IN DIRECTION.

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When I decided to leave university because my partner needed someone to be there all the time to care for her, I didn't know what I was going to do until I came across skills train. Now I can work from home and still look after my partner. I'm working my way through the sections and I think I'm picking it up quiet well. Although I'm not quiet hitting 100% but not far behind. Once I have finish this course I'm hoping to set a business up from home. Skills Train have been brilliant for me as I thought my career was finished at just the age of 22, but now I can look forward to a long career in an area in which I love.

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Every now and again you come across a truly remarkable student, you're just sat down staring at the text on a computer screen when all of a sudden you realize something. You don't know exactly where the feeling comes from or what it is but you feel that you have to give this person some kind of reward.

I have completed my first tutor marked assignment with and epic score of 90% on the first try.

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I started my CIW course in med Feb hoping to start a new career in I.T with no idea about web designing. And when I saw html, xhtml it was just blah blah blah to me, now with the help of my teachers and the way the folders are laid out I'm coming to understand it day by day I know I have along way to go yet but I feel that I've achieved a lot since I have started.

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I have always kept up a good standard throughout my course. I work hard and believe the work that I have put in so far, even though I have 2 jobs at the moment far exceeds expectation, and the pc would greatly enhance my potential to become web designer.

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I have started this course for future planning. I am full time mum of two beautiful angels, who kept me busy all day long. I am a house wife and did not ever want to disturb my family. This always being my first priority. But with that I could not stop thinking of doing something good in the education field. I have done a graduation before but not ever touched computer. But I love to know about the computer in depth. So I decided doing something in it. As I knew nothing about it, I took this course because I could do it from home and wanted to have a good knowledge in the field. Honestly this institute is a blessing for the people who can not go out. The tutor team just make you feel like students, doing there work, and in case of help,the helpful tutor is there to help us. Wow it is amazing. A very big advantage of it is that I can go any where without loosing my track and help from the tutors. I found it difficult to concentrate in start. But then I realised that every word of it is important to understand. So I will call it really concentration lectures. I am really happy with my course structure. I am hopeful that studying from home is not a problem for me, another good point for me in this course.
I need to go out of the country for my childs education. But I was worried about my education too. But I am back on track again actually better then I was doing before.

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I've just completed my course and get the result of my last assignment it took me over a year to do the course and now I'm prepare myself to take exams. I've gained lots of knowledge during this time day by day and used it whenever possible to help friends. Last month I set up a network for my friend's small business and everything worked well,I also helped him to have a beter designed website for his business. It's really great to have knowledge and use them to help people. Thank you

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I have just completed an NVQ Level 4 in Management in under three months as well as studying for this course. I have a full time job and find that time management is very important to allow for all study material to be completed on time. Having your pc fail is a major disadvantage as happened last week however I have sourced a temporary one for the time being. This part of the course is the real bread and butter of the whole course and is why I started this subject.

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It seems to me that all students should do this. The reason why I do this? I work 6 days a week now and I have to support a family as well as try to fit in a course I REALLY want to do. It's hard because some days I only get around 4 hours sleep and I have to share the computer with the family.

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My achievment of this mounth is really good. I achieve 100% result of my last three TMA. I found some difficulties in my studies, I called my tutor and they helped me. I am glad to have this course, I have told all my friends about skills train . I reccomend all those people who do not like going out and can not go out and learn, get on the skills train.

I was one of them, Who came from other counteries and do not have any carrier. I called the skills train and they helped my to make my carrier.

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My achievements so far I am personally proud of I feel I have learnt so much so far and I now have a greater understanding of computers I now help my brother when on the computer and what I have learnt I am now the one to fix the computer when things go wrong and feel confident about it, my computer is now secure and hey I now know what a computer cookie is silly I know but I have always wanted to know and now I do, I am confident that I will do well in the future as I feel I am already doing well with my course as well as having a full time job and looking after alot of animals too! all my TMA results are all 95% and above which is my target, I feel these are very good achievements and would love to get a reward and especially as my computer is a little out of date and I have to share it and would like very much to have a computer of my own to finish my course on and know my brother wont sabotage any of my hard work.

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I have been enjoying the new part of the course with the website programming.
Unfortunatly my laptop decided to break down on me; it had to be completly re installed and I lost everything. I had to do my website again (so I'm pretty ok with the coding now) and re type all my case studies/application projects. luckily I have caught up now. The biggest thing I have learned this month is that it is so so so so important to back up your work!
Thank you.

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I believe what the mind of man can conceive, mind of man can achieve it. Also I know that life is a trial that I cannot avoid. Let me face it now with all my effort so as to win the battle. I am steadily progressing on the course. I am in charge to determine my speed. Even though, I am a young father to a 6 months old baby boy, on a diploma course at Impact Int College also supervising my Comptia N+ program. Thats not all, at job I am doing 60 hours a week. I am determine to push ahead with CIW, Even if I should drop all other courses I am doing. The fact that skills Training has given the confidence and the necessary support, I feel I can do it and I will do it. The course material of Skills Training has given me the real taste of IT that I could not get from other esterblishments I have gone or going through. I must confess. I am sure in six months time I will become an expert in the the field.

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This last year has been the worse, deaths in the family, best friend murdered and loosing my job....before all that I felt my IT skills were on a good level but over the last couple of month "skills train" hasn't just helped me brush up on my IT skills but also helped me take my mind away from all other things going on. Which has made me see a bright future with qualifications I could get from the course.
Thank you skills train and all you students who make skills train possible.

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I'm doing the CIW Website Manager course. When I started I had no idea how much I would learn. I work in IT as a system developer at present but often felt I was scratching the surface and was always worried that I didn't know enough to justify my position.

My work is specialised in one area and therefore this course has given me an invaluable insight to many other areas. I now feel I can hold my own in IT meetings and when working with end users.

Over the last month I have been able to integrate more fully with the IT team in my office, have been able to set up new users, patch users into our network and understand more about the network and server issues we deal with day to day.

I have over the last year or so found it incredibly difficult to keep on top of the work. I am married, working full time and have 2 children under the age of 6 which needless to say keeps me relatively busy. On top of that I am currently being treated for depression (post-natal) so at times things are difficult. The pressure at work is also extreme at times as our company is expanding and growing at an alarmingly fast rate! Despite all this I have managed this last month or two to pick myself up and get my head down to get on with the work. I am currently working on the revision assignments for service administration part B and I must say that I find these particularly useful and interesting as they encourage you to think more about the topic than just learn to answer multiple choice. The knowledge I have gained over the last month has been excellent and I must give thanks to the tutors and skillstrain for making IT so much more interesting and approachable! Thank you for everything and I can't wait to get started on Unit 4!.

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When I first started the course I read through the first few pages and found it hard to take so much in and remember it all as well. Therefore, I started again from the beginning and took each objective and its contents one at a time. I read and wrote notes. If I didn't understand any words, I used a dictionary, then put it in my own words and I found by doing it in this way was the best way to learn it thoroughly.
This was the best achievement of all as all the hard work paid off by being able to do TMA 01 without struggling with any questions. This was shown in my result for this assignment of 100%. This to me was an achievement to be proud of.

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Throughout the last month I have undertaken and passed exams 1D0-510 and 1DO-435. I am extremly proud of this achievement, especially as I have had to put in long hours in my current job as well as keep my studies going. I have also gained my first client, who is employing me to design a web site for their organisation!

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Firstly, I like to thank my tutor team for their quick responses to my emails even before I submitted my first TMA.

Since I registered for this training, I have notice an immense change in my IT skills. Prior to this training, as an administrator, I was able to use word processor, access, excel, powerpoint presentation, search the internet, use email etc. However, I never knew what Caches (emptying the cache ensures most current pages are loaded and also frees more disk spaces etc) and how to set Cookie handling (cookies: small text files - now knows how to view my Temporary Internet Filesetc) were, never knew the advantages of avoiding others seeing sites you had visited (deleting items on the history folder or setting number of days or weeks this can be seen etc), mostly if you are using your office pc, and how to define MIME-type definition for unknown files. I have also learnt that as I search for information on the internet, some times viewing pictures were not necessary , I disable the pictures on the pc (launch Internet Explorer/ Tools/ Internet Options/ Advanced/Multimedia/Deselect Show Pictures), I noticed that my system runs faster and of course, I reverse this process as soon as I end my session. I have also used various ways to download files which I never knew before. Right now most of my downloads are done using the Internet Explorer FTP client (very practical for my training). I also never knew the various levels of security/privacy that existed or hw to set them.

All in all, I have learnt so much in a very short period of time and not just learning these but I am using what I have learnt so far to very good effect both at home and at work.

I often study late at night, sometimes I start from about 10 or 11pm till about 2 or 3am, this is a very nice quite time for me to assimilate better. I am enjoying this training and can not praise your training styles enough.

This training is a big challenge and so far it has been wonderful.Thank you.

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I HAVE COMPLETED 3 TMA'S ALREADY AND ONLY HAVE BEEN STUDYING FOR ABOUT A MONTH, DID WELL ON MY FIRST ASSIGNMENT AS I RECEIVED 100%, NOT SO WELL ON MY SECOND THOUGH AS I ONLY HAD 76%,I HAVN'T HAD RESULTS BACK FOR MY THIRD ASSIGNMENT YET BUT I'M FEELING PRETTY CONFIDENT ON THIS ONE AS I STUDIED EXTREMELY HARD AND THEREFORE I BELIEVE I HAVE PAST THIS ONE WITH FLYING COLOURS.

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