On 2 Apr 2004, at 10:33, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
Its Cisco network academy, which basically means you should be able to pass the CCNA exam at the end but have to pay for it yourself and I don't think that the college will provide you with too much help to pass the exam. I am also a bit confused about the funding/fees for the course as CCN have told me that you will have to pay £350 (someone told me it would be £1300 but I think that was the price last year) then again I have a letter on my desk from The minister of state for work and he claims that the course will be free if you are unemployed but I know this to be very untrue (unless things have changed in the past week or two, and he has also made some very dubious claims about help available while you are unemployed)
Yep, that's the one. I was planning to do one this September. However, it is all self taught like you said (Using Internet + Cisco routers at CCN). The funding fee for a year course is actually around £1000. Remember that's a YEAR. And you get to spend a friday at the college learning (which you've already stated below).
Interesting about the unemployment part... Sounds like rumours.
Hmmmm, I have been told lots of things about Cisco courses by CCN from "the course will definetly be running" to the line "oh no, the course won't run" in the space of about 24 hours, all told the easiest thing would be to buy the nice shiny hardback Cisco books for £90 and not bother with CCN imho, they were a very professional bunch of timewasters it took them a month to actually give me any idea what was going on :) and from what I was told the course is 1 day a week practical labs and "lots of reading" so I wouldn't be surprised if you paid whatever fees to get hold of £90 worth of books that you will sit at home reading while trying to get your CCNA... For £350 you could buy the books and a few old routers to study with and do it in your free time. At least thats now my plan.
Sean Mac who was one of my lecturers when I was on a course at CCN said you can learn at home as well.. But Cisco routers are costly right? (Unless I can go trawling on ebay). Just seems that probably 50% of the money is going to the lecturers saying a lot of rubbish? ;)
There are no real courses at CCN. They like to waste advertising space/money ;)
Aye, this appears to be true :) Does anyone else fancy setting up a college?
Should be easy enough ;)
C