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Over the last few feeks I have several misfortunes in life, first of all my laptop broke, and it took a while to fix. Then my partner had to have extra hospital apointments as it was thought her cancer was growing.
Due to these misfortunes it has lead me to not be able to get through as much work as I usually do, although skillstrain has been very understanding and helpful, and I believe if I was doing this course in a college or university, they wouldn't have been as understanding and I wouldn't have been able to take the time out that I needed. I just hope now I can back on track and get this course finished so I can put the excellent training into practice.

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The Internet Training session on Security was marvellous. Permit me to say that the session is becoming more exciting and comprehensive time after time. Security is a very sensitive issue in any organisation. The session has undisputably cleared some of the lapses and shallow understanding I had relating to the subject under discussion. Thanks for your time and untiring efforts in making our studies very comfortable and unique. All the Best in your endeavours.

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Very good! I really liked the interactive labs. Made me feel like I was really in a classroom.

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This was the first live internet class I have attended. I absloutely enjoyed this class and thought the whole "Live" aspect was brilliant. I could contact the tutor if I needed to and loved having to answer questions within the session. Overall I thought the Live Internet Training sessions are essential to have.

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The Live Internet Training was a fabulous presentation, it was cool and very interesting. It really enlightened and exposed me to safety clues and precautionary measures to take when dealing with fire, electrical apliances etc . Thanks for the coaching. I love it.

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Its been a very strange month in many ways, I started the month very commited to the course (July), I embarked on reducing my time in my job to concentrate more on studies and believed at the time it would play dividens, however strangely thru July with time on my hands I had a few wobbles, accompanied to restless nites and even questioning "why" I had chosen to go down the route of re-training myself at 41..particulary as my schooling had never been so great..I even sent an email questioning the eventualities of the course.....

but then other things albeit very minor happened, my step-brother asked for help with his printer, the PC was not recognising the print job amongst other things and after simple review, look and surmise, I got him up and running, in the scales of things this May not mean a great deal however to me at the time it made me sit back and actually appreciate what the last 7 months have been... on the same day my next door neighbour came knocking I had help her before setting up however she had bigger issues in trying to establish a back-up procedure for her personal and work things, what pleased me quite simply was without opening the books and I actually felt confident in giving direction and to point her in the right the direction....

I have today place a very simple advert locally offering simple assistance, more so for others within the village, I've done this because in the last 72hrs my confidence and more importantly "why" is coming back..

I am currently nearing the end of my first section on N+, ironically I have started to re-read the manual and the penny is now dropping were as three weeks back it was merely a "need to must do read" for the course....

this has been a strange month, I started this course with huge expectations, I hold my hands up to wobbling mid way, buts is amazes me that something simple has help re-coup direction..

in closing I am also thankful for the email from the team..every little bits helps as my friend at T says..

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I thought I would enter for student of the month because I have seen a major improvement in my assignments and hit the 100% mark for most of the e-commerce part A. Last week I entered the public exams for the CIW foundation v5 and passed which I find is a big step forward and I can now see the end of the tunnel. Im now almost ready for the next exam which would be the CIW e-commerce, just need to complete the Part B of the course. I seem to be getting on quite well during the summer months even though I am looking after our 2 year daughter and trying to keep her amused. Most of the studying is in the late afternoon/evening, it has taken 6 months so far to get where I am. I think the foudations course was the larger of the course's that I am taking, it's also difficult as you know bits and pieces of stuff already only to find that you didn't know it that well at all. Just waiting for my certificate to come through door now. Hopefully not long till I can start employment and get job satisfaction

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I have very quickly realised that being a graduate is simply not enough to get a good job and earn an agreeable salary. I have registered my CV with many agencies with little to no response. I recently upgraded my CV and added that I was pursuing a course in E-Commerce and Project management and I am now being called for interviews. The last interview I went to was for a job as Office Assistant, and the interviewer said "are you sure that's what you want to do? You seem to be overqualified for this job" needless to say I did not get the job because he thought I could do so much better than just being an Office Assistant. I have never been told this before and I am certain That this course has made a whole lot of difference to my CV. Thanks to Skills Train I am several steps closer to getting my dream job. The Course is a challenge but then nothing this good comes easy, giving up is not an option for me now, because the future looks a bit more certain, once I have completed my course. thanks again Skills Train!!

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I believe I have achieved well since starting the course. Firstly when I started I thought I would not be able to have the self motivation to study enough to pass the tests, I am already acheiving more in my results than expected. Secondly I feel I am getting so much from the course I introduced a friend who is now also doing the same course as me, and he is very happy he chose to do it. Thirdly since starting the course I left my job doing meter reading which was really soul destroying for me, and was leaving me feeling depressed at the end of each day, and now I have just started a new position at Sony doing 1st line support to customers regarding electrical product connectivity. I feel this is a big step forward as later I May be able to gain a role as 1st line support in IT. I have added the knowledge I have learnt to my CV and I have had responses for jobs in IT, though I have not yet passed the first interview stage, I am getting experience in interviews that I might not have got before this course. Lastly and most importantly I feel my confidence in my learning ability has grown enormously and I feel I am finding the more I study and complete, the easier I am finding it to take in the information. I no longer feel depressed with problems or feel that I am not going anywhere. I feel really good about myself and this is the most rewarding thing for me.

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Another interesting LIT session. Well done team :)

Although related to the A+ course, this sessions contained information that maybe some would not consider. As daft as this sounds, when I did my apprenticeship in dental technology for the University of Liverpool, my colleagues and I would often amuse our more boring moments by watching the academic geniuses with little common sense trying to cross a busy road. Yes I know, this sounds mean, but it was funny and never failed to give us a chuckle. So therefore, adding common sense for safety into a "learnable application" has to be a master stroke. Good stuff :)

That isn't to say I am full of common sense (I wish), and I did learn a few things at this session.

Once again a huge thank you to the tutors for providing this opportunity, and for being at the office long after the cleaners have emptied the bins and had a few pints at the local. Respect guys.

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I have been on the skills train since June of last year. I was excited to give the new change of direction a go as I have been an Art teacher in secondary schools for 27 years and was keen to either change professions or enhance my quality of Art teaching, especially through ICT.

Through circumstances I was between jobs in East Yorkshire and the course was a motivation. Anyhow for some inexplicable reason I decided to apply for a teaching job on the small Channel Island of Alderney - 2,400 population - the school is unique and as you can imagine going from class sizes of 30 to a max of around 12 was fantastic. It is also a whole school education from reception class aged 4 up to GCSE aged 16. We are the only school on the island I really feel part of the community. Also as well as Art I have to teach ICT (a subject I have never taught before) but am gaining confidence in through your course.

From January 07 to May07 I was totally enveloped in my job, and as you can imagine the course took a back seat. I was by myself on the island in a rented property but was looking forward to June when my wife would join me, also the thrill of buying and moving into our new house.

Then WHAM!!!! out of the blue in May I was diagnosed with bowel cancer!!!! Total shock, never had any idea. What a time to find out- new job, new life, new house, by myself on the island.

Anyhow things swung into motion quickly and through numerous flights to Guernsey ( we are in the Bailliwick of Guernsey) and scans in London, Jersey and Southampton I am now on full treatment.

Of course they do not have the facilities on our small lovely island so I am now in Southampton undergoing Chemo and radiotherapy for 6 weeks prior to an operation on Guernsey ( I hope).

Here is the irony - I had to be in England July 29th for 1st treatment - my wife had to be in Alderney July 30th to set up our new home and see to move etc -- so more months apart.

OK so finally why am I telling you this?
Well I am now totally studying the web site manager course again - it motivated me when I was unemployed and now it is motivating me again as I go through this treatment. I find it hard going but the discipline it brings to my life and the skills I am gaining make me all the more positive about my future. Hopefully I will do well in any exams but the act of studying and taking what I need from the course is more important. It would be so easy to give up, but then whoever achieved anything by stopping when the going gets tough. Thanks again for providing a structured focus to my days.

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Where ( all around me ) things in life were not going as planned - I can now see a spec of daylight at the end of the tunnel , and for that I can thank Skills Train . This course has helped me start the cycle that will eventually change my life , and remove me from a job that hasn't produced any form of work satisfaction ( over the last few years ) , and little financial reward for the long hours that I continually put in . The happiest working days of my life will be when I set off - for a Networking career change .
The Recent Exam sucess - in passing the Comptia A+ was a significant milestone for me , and this has given me the confidence to start the next part of my course with Positive results in the first 3 TMA's . I am thoroughly enjoying this Networking course , and I have invested in a few Networking tools ( bought on e-bay ) , and have started to set up a Home Network lab - using my companies old network Hub & a couple of (permanently borrowed , and unused ) ISA NIC's . The network course notes have helped me , as one of the NIC's had a fault , and after referring to the correct section - I managed to change its IRQ , and away it went .

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After giving up my regular job as a postman due to an injury I have taken up a CCNA course to assist me in understanding, within my curent job in the mobile industry, the systems we use and why and how problems arise relating to software /hardware and general IT issues that occur on a regular basis.

Not only have I been able to solve a lot of these issues myself without the need for them to be raised to our IT department, I have also developed a skill that seems to be sought after and deemed very useful within my workplace.

I have since been offered a role within our IT department that consists of diagnosing and resolving issues raised on a daily basis, reducing the workload within my department.

I feel the course has had a definate impact in me achieving this position as I mentioned my current studies and what it consists of. I was selected from a shortlist of employees within my company and am now progressing closer to reaching my goal to become a fully active member of the IT team within one of the biggest network providers in the world!

All good, and thanks to me taking the initiative to partake in a skills train online learning course.

Many thanks skills train, I only wish I had done this years ago!

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