If you may be starting with a training school which still provides workshop days as part of their program, then take note of these typical downsides reported by the majority of trainees:

- Loads of travelling - lots of trips and usually 100's of miles each time.

- If, like many of us, you work, then weekday classes cause problems at work. You're usually having to deal with several days in a row too.

- If we get 4 weeks off each year, sacrificing half of them for study days means we'll be hard-pushed to get a holiday with our families.

- Workshops usually reach their maximum intake very quickly, meaning we have to accept the '2nd best' solution.

- There is often tension in classes as different students want to work at different paces.

- Tot up the cost of all the fares or petrol, parking, accommodation and food and you may be surprised (and not pleasantly). Trainees mention extra costs mounting to several hundred and sometimes thousands of pounds. Do the maths - then you'll know.

- Study privacy is often very important to quite a lot of trainees. There's no need to lose any job advancement, pay-rises or achievement at work just because you're retraining. If your employer knows you're taking steps towards qualification in a completely different market, what will they think?

- We all feel awkward about asking questions while sitting with our fellow trainees - so we don't appear ignorant.

- For those of us who need to occasionally live or work away from home, think of the now-increased trouble of making the needed classes, when time is at a premium.

The ultimate convenience comes from viewing a filmed workshop - with instructor-led learning available whenever you'd like. Think... Utilising a laptop then you could work in any location you choose. And 24 hr-a-day support is just a web-browser away in case of difficulty. You don't have to worry about any note-taking - all the lessons are prepared and laid out for you - ready to go. Anything you want to do over, you've got it all. The final upshot: Reduced hassle, saved money, and travelling is removed.

If you're thinking about a change of career into I.T., then its very likely that you'll want to begin somewhere around these programs, depending on your overall level of I.T. literacy. We would suggest you look at your strategies on training programs and IT careers with an experienced advisor if you have more complex goals. Although anybody contemplating training to make a new career move ought to be open to professional guidance prior to starting out. Thirty minutes of your time used in preparing and assessing the best path forward will pay dividends twelve months or so down the line.

We're often asked why academic qualifications are now falling behind more qualifications from the commercial sector? Corporate based study (to use industry-speak) is far more effective and specialised. Industry has realised that a specialist skill-set is what's needed to cope with an increasingly more technical commercial environment. Adobe, Microsoft, CISCO and CompTIA are the dominant players. This is done through concentrating on the skill-sets required (alongside an appropriate level of related knowledge,) as opposed to spending months and years on the background 'padding' that computer Science Degrees can get bogged down in - to pad out the syllabus.

It's a bit like the TV advert: 'It does what it says on the tin'. All an employer has to do is know what they need doing, and then request applicants with the correct exam numbers. Then they're assured that a potential employee can do exactly what's required.

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