Stonebridge College...BEWARE

bainey

I enrolled on level 3 teaching assistant course a few years ago, which I completed and had all 11 units marked by an assessor (definitely copy and paste marked as they put the wrong name on one of my feedback sheets.)
I completed the course and sent in my final mentor statement.
After waiting for my certificate to arrive and never receiving it I contacted the college and was told I had stopped studying in July 2015.
I had, in fact, taken a study break as advised by Stonebridge College, due to school summer holidays and not being able to complete the assessment within the timeframe as I needed to be in the classroom.
I then restarted, and had the rest of my assignments passed and marked by a tutor.
Stonebridge College have informed me that according to them, I never studied again from July 2015. 
I have my assessment marked, and correspondence from the college, and my tutor, proving that I studied and finished in the middle of 2016.
Whenever I rang the same man would fob me off, saying they would look into it and contact me.
I gave up and posted a bad review on Google, of which I received a reply from the company. This seemed hopeful as any other attempts with communication had failed.
After numerous emails with David, where I explained I hadn't taken a 12 month study break and have emails and marked assessments for that period, here's the reply..

Hi Sarah, I’m sorry to read that you are upset by this outcome.
 
I have however since been advised that you would be required to restart the course from scratch and fund it privately, should you wish to continue.
 
Kind regards
 
David

So please be aware that this online college isnt as it seems, and I would advise anyone looking to study online, or know of anyone who is thinking of, to stay clear.
I have a student loan of nearly £600 but no qualification, and the online college who will admit no fault on their side.

hollydays

bainey said:

I enrolled on level 3 teaching assistant course a few years ago, which I completed and had all 11 units marked by an assessor (definitely copy and paste marked as they put the wrong name on one of my feedback sheets.)
I completed the course and sent in my final mentor statement.
After waiting for my certificate to arrive and never receiving it I contacted the college and was told I had stopped studying in July 2015.
I had, in fact, taken a study break as advised by Stonebridge College, due to school summer holidays and not being able to complete the assessment within the timeframe as I needed to be in the classroom.
I then restarted, and had the rest of my assignments passed and marked by a tutor.
Stonebridge College have informed me that according to them, I never studied again from July 2015. 
I have my assessment marked, and correspondence from the college, and my tutor, proving that I studied and finished in the middle of 2016.
Whenever I rang the same man would fob me off, saying they would look into it and contact me.
I gave up and posted a bad review on Google, of which I received a reply from the company. This seemed hopeful as any other attempts with communication had failed.
After numerous emails with David, where I explained I hadn't taken a 12 month study break and have emails and marked assessments for that period, here's the reply..

Hi Sarah, I’m sorry to read that you are upset by this outcome.
 
I have however since been advised that you would be required to restart the course from scratch and fund it privately, should you wish to continue.
 
Kind regards
 
David

So please be aware that this online college isnt as it seems, and I would advise anyone looking to study online, or know of anyone who is thinking of, to stay clear.
I have a student loan of nearly £600 but no qualification, and the online college who will admit no fault on their side.

" 'Tis the season for threats" https://www.degreeinfo.com/index.php?threads/tis-the-season-for-threats-stonebridge-associated-colleges.29564/

hollydays

www.degreeinfo.com May be a very good place also for you to post on about Stonebridge College. In reference to the above link I posted an Admin of that forum at the time said "... One would think that some of these business-masquerading-as-schools would do a little due diligence and search through degreeinfo's 250,000+ message archive to figure out what happens when someone threatens us. The threat gets posted to the board, in nearly every case resulting in far, far more exposure for said threatening individual or institution. This, in turn, encourages people to look even more carefully into the details of said program... which, almost without fail, turns up more dirty laundry or otherwise damning information about said program. And if we're extremely lucky, a representative from the "school" in question will show up to defend his or her program, which almost always provides tremendous entertainment, since these individuals are never a match for some of the more knowledgeable and well-informed people here on degreeinfo... End result, said "school" ends up with far more negative information than it would ever have had if it hadn't threatened us in the first place...." I like their style.

bainey

Thank you, I wish I had researched this online college thoroughly. I took the main reviews at face value, but when you actually wade through all the 'excellent' reviews, my complaint t seems common.

HampshireH

I used this company many many years ago (maybe 10) for various short courses.

The content was out of date on their courses which required assignments based on legislation and various laws. I had to point out to them their content was ridiculously out of date and that legislation was more current that their content detailed.