Open Colleges
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The BIGGEST MISTAKE you can make!
This is one of the biggest mistakes you can make is to enrol with Open Colleges for the dual Diploma in Marketing/ Social Media course. It's not only badly structured learning on the online platform with little to no learning support (they have a student Facebook group and that's what is what will be your main learning support is other students who are doing the course doubling up as peer tutors) but their student advisors have no educational teaching or teaching support staff experience, they are sales people, therefore, they’re agenda I’ve unfortunately learnt is focused on signing you up and paying for the course. When problems pop up unexpectedly due to hardship, they will not help you even when circumstantial evidence is provided by higher authority... they will ignore it and keep saying it’s insufficient even though it was them that requested such things. They’re financial focused and do not care about the wellbeing or feedback of their students. They offer no real help when special circumstances are brought up. From my experience they use delaying and confusing tactics, give vague instructions, they will not tell you what you need to do as a student for your case until it's too late. Don't bother with Open Colleges, find a better more reputable college like Tafe or private college who are willing to speak about the actual course with the actual teachers/ department teaching the course and deal with them directly not like Open Colleges who are just sales people worried about their KPI’s and bonuses. These courses by Open Colleges are money-grabbing corporate driven schemes to attract people at their most vulnerable, they speak to you in an understanding empathetic way, but it’s ALL FAKE they do this just to sign you up. They play on the emotions of the most trusting and desperate. I had to learn the awfully hard way and lost thousands of dollars, along with a lot of sleep and loss of self worth (it took a while to actually tap in my naive mind that these people actually didn’t care about my education). For a long time I became too afraid to constantly try and push for fair guidance/ outcomes. I got neither when I did try. It just made me more depressed and anxious each time I approached them for help, constantly dealing with different staff but each time like they fed me the same lines and tried to make me believe they went above and beyond when in truth it didn’t matter to them at all, they already predetermined the resolution before the advisor knew the details of the personal circumstances or before you reply to the question I was constantly ask, “what do I want for my learning/ course outcome”...applications for extensions and or special circumstances. I reiterate, they will do anything to get you to sign up and will do anything to retain your money regardless of the questionable ethical standards. Save your money and a lot of disappointment and DON’T get suckered in by their sales team... what sounds too good to be true, is in this case.