City and Guilds – Programmable Logic Controllers Reviews

Elliott Kensdale is a lovely tutor and has been teaching from maybe 20 years or more. He has good knowledge about the PLC and relevant topics. On the other hand, On the first day, it felt like he was just reading the slides and hardly much enthusiasm. Ideally, the students should be introduced what they will be learning for next 5 days. On the first day, we felt like..."Oh dear have we done a mistake by coming, is it even worth". Second day (timers) was very intense. Third day was a bit better. Fourth day was good with practice questions. The another problem is "Carbon-di-oxide" in the room. We were 8 people in the room and outside temperature was ~0 degrees. The trainer will open the windows to ensure that the CO2 levels are adequate. Opening the windows in summer is good, in winter! Damn, we were getting trained in cold and wearing full jackets (usually supposed to be wore outside) inside. Even with that, it was cold, plus very cold in the feet (wearing clothes shoes). So, you can imaging training yourself learning about PLC in cold room. There were more chances of getting sick with cold rather than CO2 levels. Another good issue was timings. The Technique office is open till 1730 hours. However, as the trainer or the training timings are from 0900-1515 hours. You can't practice after 1515 hours. We were having difficulty understanding some concepts and wanted a peaceful quite time to practice the concepts. We requested the trainer multiple times to let us practice after 1515 hours but No. We came here to learn the concepts, become strong technical skills. All what was needed is power supply to the laptop and the PLC kit. We did say, we will shut down it but No. If we can't practice what we learn (after hours and within office timing, what's the point). We were here to learn rather than just gain a certification. Also, when asked about the PLC10, 15 course, he just mentioned we would learn some advance concepts, advance exercises. It would have helped us more if the trainer tells that what is covered in next steps rather than just generic stuff. In short, we would generally not recommend the course, until the improvements are made. You can probably learn way more online rather than in-person. The students learn more by themselves (self-teaching) rather than any influential input from the trainer. The only USP is that they (trainer) provide a kit to practice and some questions set.

The time was not long enough.

THE TUTER WAS SUPPOETIVE DURING THE CLASS . THE COURSE DESCRIPTION IS NOT AS WE ARE TOLD IN THE MAIL!! VERY DISAPPOINTED

The training sessions were very disorganised and i had to constantly prompt the trainer to cover the topics for the course i had booked. The trainer was constantly cutting the sessions short and did not seem to have the knowledge to cover the topics of the intermediate course i had been booked on.