Technique Training Ltd 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 course seemed more geared to answering questions on the exam than actually PAT testing in the real world

The time was not long enough.

Mock exams have should have an answer sheet with references to the page numbers where to find the answers. More structure in course is required, ie when a formula is being presented it would be good to write down all the page number where to find the relevant factors.

Firstly its a fairly well located centre, and there are some excellent electrical tutors still working there, though you may have very limited access to them as they are in demand and do the shorter courses a lot of the time. I did the combined course whether due to poor timing or whatever, after about week three the organisation of the course just collapsed. In fact there were signs early in the level 2 practical stage where there just was not materials available and key tools missing. (The centre guidance states this may be the case though no attention is drawn to this, so you should be aware of this.) Should you be blessed with one of the excellent tutors you will have an experience that will be as the BBC would aim for. Informed, Educational and Entertaining the time will pass quickly you will cover your subject to the best level you can manage and possibly get advice on further subjects you may consider. On the other hand if your not you'll experience confusion, a lack of focus and possibly wonder if your on the right course. You may be invited to ask questions initially and then on asking be asked to wait until the power point reading session is over (having often forgotten the question by then). You may also find that you do none of the practical aspects of the course and instead focus on aspects which are less critical. (Leaving you with not enough time to complete all aspects of the course). Then having the tutor inform you at the end that you need to speed up to get the course complete. The 2365-02 course was great for weeks 1-5 as we were blessed with two excellent tutors, both experienced and highly qualified with a gift for communicating effectively. However 2365-03 was just a continuation and even ditteriation of what began to go wrong from weeks 6-8 of 2365-02. There was no consistancy poor choice of tutors (when some turned up;) put in to replace our initial tutors and when eventually complaints were made it took far too long to address 4 weeks with little acknowledgement in between. At the start of the final week (8) of 2365-03 we were acknowledged and a minimal sum of redress offered. The good news is that someone new has been put in place to try and address things which appears to include much of has been complained of but at time of official finnishing not the tutoring issue. Speaking to two students currently on week 4-5 of the 2365-02 the tutor issue was still evident and the added issue that they had done no practical at all in the 2-3 weeks. So though I can only speak for the electrical courses 2365-02/03 and 2919 there were tutoring issues. Hope fully the new management team will address in short order and improve quickly.

Found that we were out of our depth a little on the project and that there wasnt much supportive help. Moved too quick through areas that were needed on the project. Equipment is now outdated and not the newest for Siemens which was one of the reason i attended this course.

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

we were trying to complete a rather hurried mock exam prior to the real exam. Unfortunately there were other people in the warehouse area close to our room who were making rather a lot of noise (laughing and loud talking). This made it extremely difficult to concentrate and ,quite frankly, I for one gave up.

Tutor was good but didn’t quite teach us the relevant information for the course.

Tutor was good but didn’t quite teach us the relevant information for the course.