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Hello,
I do a lot of training and education work outside of health and safety, and am now thinking about designing some health and safety training for clients.
I understand the Level 3 Award in Education and Training (the old PTLLS) is the minimum qualification to deliver most accredited courses (i.e. IOSH, CIEH etc.).
So my dilemma is this: online/ distance learning EAT courses are cheaper than classroom based, and more importantly I don't have to take a week off work to complete it, however I'm wary of the quality of these e-learning platforms and suspect that I might actually learn some more useful stuff with a face-to-face tutor.
Anybody here got any opinion on which route to go for?
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Do any local colleges do evening classes at all?
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Been Looking at doing an NVQ assessors course for some time myself and now i've finally taken the plunge. By July i should be qualified to assess workers doing NVQ in the workplace. I'm also toying with the idea of doing some more teaching qualifications so i can deliver safety course myself, the list is endless, but is something nice to do in your old age i guess.
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Morning scsafety,
I have done this course (classroom based)and I have undertaken plenty of training both online and classroom based. I find some work well online and some you need to be in a classroom for.
If there is one course I think doesn't make sense on line, it is a teaching course. Get into the classroom meet the other teachers you will get so much more from this. If you want to teach or train then you will benefit from spending some time in a classroom.
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Thanks for the replies.
No evening classes that I can find, plus the local colleges are all particularly expensive.
I agree that an online course in teaching seems quite a strange concept, however I already have quite a lot of training and teaching experience in the classroom, I just don't have a formal qualification.
Been in contact with an employee of the online course provider and it's getting hard for me to justify taking five days off work to obtain a qualification I can do in my own time.
Would be great to hear from someone who has done this particular course online.
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I've got this course booked up for when i finish my NVQ assessors course QCF LEVEL 3 AWARD IN EDUCATION AND TRAINING Its online and you can do it in your spare time, price only £200 which i thought was a bargain https://www.greatachieve...-training-aet-new-pttls/I might use it to enable me either start offering courses myself in collage or in the workplace
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have you looked at the local universities? I acknowledge that it's a while since I did my PGCE but it was 4-8 every Tuesday for 2 years - I negotiated a slight shift in working hours with my employer. It was awarded by the Uni but held at a local college - it just didn't appear anywhere on the college prospectus.
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Thanks for the suggestions; for what it's worth I decided to use the online route as I couldn't get any time off work.
I put in a considerable amount of time researching and phoning various online providers can confidently say that in terms of customer service and quality of website etc. there is a huge range of providers out there (and strangely very little evidence of online reviews of nearly all companies, which makes things trickier).
The organisation I eventually chose seems pretty good- I have been assigned a tutor who has introduced herself on the phone, they have very clear procedures and expectations, no hidden costs, and an excellent quality assurance system with two accreditation bodies. So far so good.
I will post my final verdict when I've finished in a few weeks (hopefully!).
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