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beansy

Brook86 wrote: »

Hi I recently looked into learning a second trade, after getting in contact with a few different courses and companies I got almost pressured into signing up to a plumbing course run by new carer skills.i had a phone call Friday evening and a sales person came round and "interviewed" on the Sunday morning and before I knew it I was enrolled onto a course which was going to cost me over £6000. After doing some more research I have decided that the whole thing doesn't seem cosher at all 5 weeks to become a plumber?! Now I've told them I not going to continue the course I'm being told I need to pay a cancellation fee of £3600!
Has any one else dealt with new career skills? And if so did you pay the cancellation fee as I'm worried if I don't it will effect my credit rating.

I hate this sort of thing and really hope you get it sorted out quickly, without any further stress and that the people resorting to these measures are closed down asap.

Great to see MSE's giving you their support too, you couldn't have come to a better place for help.

Take care.

CKhalvashi

I'm fed up with companies like this on a personal level, and it's not just in plumbing.

We had a CV from a 'newly qualified' person in our industry, who it later turned out had spent £12,000 on a 10 week course to 'qualify'

There are no industry-wide qualifications that we are able to use, and this was certainly not a course I'd consider at all relevant. I've been doing my job for 10 years now (full-time for 6), and although I'm not perfect at it, I've not spent £12,000 to get where I am; nowhere near it in fact. The best training for our industry is on-the-job!

With regard to plumbing in 5 weeks; I think that this is a completely unrealistic goal, especially as you say, it should be 9-12 months. I really hope you get your money back/debt cancelled, but I hold little hope :mad:

CK