Start Learning - Distance Learning Experts

What We Can Learn from Advent

Yesterday we learned about the collapse of Advent Training one of the largest IT Training Providers in the UK after their funding was cut. This was a travesty for their thousands of students, who had a great experience with Advent and were keen to continue their studies.  Their business model was built on students taking out a loan for their course from the bank, and when funding was cut it left them in an impossible situation.

At Start Learning our business is different in 5 key ways:

We keep our prices affordable - A MCDST course with us costs just £395.

We keep our quality high - Because we have exclusive relationships and own much of our content we do not need to pay high royalty fees. In fact Advent’s materials were supplied by our parent company.

We don’t do loans or monthly payments - With our affordable prices we believe you can save to study, if you need to.

We pay our tutors up front - We believe that you get the best from a tutor who is paid to support you as a student, not paid per item marked.

We send out all your materials at the start - So you have everything you paid for with you throughout your studying journey.

If you purchase a course with Start Learning and change your mind for any reason you have a full week to return it to us – no questioned asked. We want you to be happy with our products and services as well as your decision.

The Launch of Our New Website

We are very happy to announce the launch of our new website! It has been a busy, worrying and exciting process and we are all now ready for bed! But the site is up and looks much better and is much easier to use than our previous site. We want to thank Mark and Brian for all their hard work building it - they have done a fantastic job!

Here is a small pic of the happy but exhausted Marketing Team with the live new website! (I am taking the photo)

 For us the key element in the new website was having a way to browse all of our courses easily. When you have over 150 courses this isn't easy!

 We also wanted to be able to present as much information as possible to aid the decision making process.

I am sure it will be a work in progress as we listen to people's experiences and tweak our website to make it better and easier to use.

If you have any feedback on it or suggestions please let us know and we will do our best to incorporate them.

This really feels like the start of something new for a new year and new decade! We are so glad we finally have a website to match the quality of our courses and the service we deliver.

Thanks

Brie