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Ensure you fully understand what you will get at the end
The course itself was good and the tutor good. Unfortunately, the courses I thought I was enrolling on have turned out not be the qualifications I thought they were. At the end of my training, I discovered I wasn't enrolled on the course I applied and paid for (Advanced Level 5 Diploma), but was put on an older course (Advanced Level 4) so I had to pay more money and study longer to upgrade my qualification. 2 years on, I have found out the Chrysalis "Level 5" qualification, according to the SCoPEd framework, still only counts as a Level 4 qualification and to get the "real" Level 5 (which they are now calling the "extended Level 5"), which I thought I had paid for all along, I now need to pay another £4000 and study for another year, to "upgrade" to it. Other courses are more expensive, but that's because you get the proper Level 5 qualification. So, in order to move on to post graduate studies, I now either have to re-train with someone else, or give more money to these people and take another year out of my life to get the actual Level 5 Diploma I wanted in the first place. It was all good until I went to begin Level 6 and realised what my qualification was actual good for. I have tried so many times to speak to Chrysalis about this, but can't get past the course liaison team. Despite many times of asking they won't give me any contact details from anyone at a management level to make sense of it all. Trying to find a placement for year 3 was very difficult because organisations were concerned about the quality of the Chrysalis training and wouldn't take me on. I now understand why. Please be careful.