CIPD Associate Diploma in People Management or Organisational Learning and Development (Level 5) Reviews

I have been extremely disappointed with my experience with my Foundation HR Course. I paid £1890 for the course, with the first payment made on 21/2/22. on then started with Watson Martin on the 2/3/22. I was assigned to Leanne Bucknor. She was lovely, we had a couple fabulous chats on zoom for Module 1 and Module 2 and it was a great start. Reed Learning then took over. I submitted my first draft for Module 3 in September of 2022. Unfortunately the 2021 versions of assignments (which I downloaded at the start of working on Module 3) were no longer available to submit so then had to make changes to the content. I resubmitted in November 2022. In January 2023 I submitted Module 4 and was only then found out my consultant changed. I was unaware of this as likely the email went into junk. My new Consultant Davina, has not been well this year I understand, so appreciate things got held up. However I submitted Module 3 (again, as it obviously hadn't been submitted for verification and was now required in a different format) and Module 4 in February 2023. Finally in August (6 months later) I heard that I passed. This course has taken far longer to complete than it should have, taking away the satisfaction of completion that I should feel.

this is the last of my core modules and I feel that there is a real change in this one - I experienced this at the start of my course where a Level 7 tutor stepped in for the afternoon and the change from Level 5 to 7 is so noticeable, and problematic. Whilst the lecturer clearly had a wealth of knowledge and we covered a lot - I don't feel particularly well directed in how to answer the questions. referring to the candidate guidance is a much more directed way of working & there was no mention of this in the session. Likewise, not using Jam boards means I have nothing tangible to take away from the learning points that weren't from my breakout groups - in this case, whole topic points. there were some people on the day today that this is their first module - I would be totally lost and petrified if I were them & its because we've been delivered the topic at Level 7 expectations. I have no real contact with my tutor so I can only hope they do and they can get guidance on things such as not spending massive amounts of word count on 'Explain' questions - despite spending tons of time in session today on those points.