Hi there, I done a New Careers Course and although, like Dave said, they do work round your time schedule, and some of the Tutors, namely 'Kevin Holgate' in Doncaster, are very good and if they can help you then they will. However, I would just say that the after care service our group had was very minimal, if anything. No help at all really. I would also say that you should try the colleges again. I am 45 and started with NCS in 2010, so I was 43. I paid nearly £5,000 only to find out in the end I was not getting what I was led to believe I would, until the morning of the final exams. Was not, and still not happy bunny. On top of that found out a couple of weeks ago that I could have done it through a college in Wisbech in one year, three days a week study, leaving 4-5 days a week to work for only £850, and would have had a FULL NVQ2. Since October, when I passed my NCS exams, I have been trying to sort things out and work on my own with the skills I learned from Kevin, and although slow like any new business is, I am now on 6 housing Letting Agents lists, and do private work, which although still not every day, is starting to pick up, purely on word-of-mouth and referals, which is a good thing. Because I am not flat out yet, I am now in the process of registering to start this NVQ2 Course at Wisbech in Sept this year, so right now to fill in the time I have until Sept, I am looking to start my Gas Safe Training with 'NIC EIC' in Luton '
NICEIC ecatalogue 2011/2012 and work hard to see if I can pass that asap, which by the end of June/ July next year I should have my NVQ2 and be Gas Safe Registered. I know that if you are working for yourself you don't need the NVQ2, but I want to be the best I can, so makes sense to me to have that NVQ2 in my back pocket. Pays to shop around and double-check and even tripple-check everything and everyone. If you make a mistake, it will hold you back and cost you a lot of money. Good luck to you.
