learndirect.co.uk

First of all let me apologise, I have wanted to share this site with all of you for a long time however couldn't locate a suitable area to place my opinion so note the site I am talking about is learn.co.uk NOT learndirect.co.uk. **************************************************************************** Learn.co.uk is an education site set up by the guardian newspaper. With sections for : Key stage 2 (year 3-6) ,Key stage 3 (year 7-9) , Key stage 4 (year 10-11) and AS level (year 12) learn.co.uk covers plenty of subjects clearly offering some fantastic help with your or your childs homework. THE SUBJECTS COVERED: The following is a ...  Read the complete review

Learndirect are run by the UK government's company UFI (University for Industry), and has several main arms, as outlined below. If you visit the Learndirect site you are greeted by options from which to choose: 1) Learndirect 2) Learndirect, National Learning Advice 3) Learndirect Business, and finally 4) Learndirect Corporate Most users like you or I would only ever make use of the first two options, which I will go into detail on in a moment. Before I do, I will give brief details on the latter two. But this opinion is mainly centred on the Leardirect courses and how they are offered. Learndirect ...  Read the complete review

Learn Direct is more like a yellow pages for courses. You choose what sort of course you want and how you want to do it either online or at college and Learn Direct will find you the nearest or most suitable course available. Learn Direct do have some of their own courses but other learning providers supply most of the courses available. There are Learn Direct centres all over the country which let you use their computers and equipment for free once you have signed up for one of their courses. The staff at the centres are very helpful and can offer loads of advice on what courses to do and the best way to do them. I used a Learn Direct course to study for my ...  Read the complete review

The learn direct web page advertises a friendly helpful service, but when I contacted them they were not helpful whatsoever! Firstly I used their search service to look for a part-time course with a qualification on web design, dreamweaver, cgi, perl and flash - only to find all the courses that came up were all full time courses in colleges and universities which I could not afford to go to, mainly because I would have had to move home, quit my job just to do the course. I wanted a course to do (online) where I could do it in-between shifts in my work! I then used the e-mail service to try and find out about courses (part-time / online) that they did ...  Read the complete review