Posted By Melanie Fellows Personally I'd do the Construction Certificate first - the Diploma looks like a giant leap up and my understanding is that people find it hard enough to do without adding on the pressure of not being as up to date as possible. Mel

Posted By Melanie Fellows I had hoped that you wouldn't have been self funding! Is there any chance your employer will contribute/ pay? Mel

Posted By Melanie Fellows I haven't heard of any funding (although there was a post a while ago where someone offered a possible solution by contacting him directly - so it's worth a search of the forums). My only other thought is that depending on yourself and how you work, perhaps you could self teach yourself for the construction cert, and just put yourself in for the exams (it depends how confident you feel though!), this would obviously reduce your financial outlay. I've only just completed the construction cert myself (results in Feb), and I was a bit disappointed with the exam (I only had to sit one as I completed my general in 2005), basically I didn't think it was very construction biased - certainly not as much as I thought it would be, and not any harder than the general (although my results may tell me different!!). Good luck anyway, Mel