Horrific Experience - DO NOT ENROLL
Horrific experience. A Sales Consultant from Open Colleges contacted my mother and sold her a course for me without my consent (I was 21 at the time). They then provided no support or resources and were incredibly hard to contact for help and advice. Due to receiving no support, living a very busy life and suffering from severe anxiety I could not even complete the first assignment. Nothing about equipment or programs were explained to my mother or me, we were told adobe products would be provided only to be told later that they don't do that. After hitting extreme financial hardship which included an eviction notice from our rental we were unable to continue paying open colleges. Because the course is in my name I am now facing the loss all of my belongings to a debt collection agency employed by Open Colleges. The amount owed to Open Colleges is more than the value of all our belongings combined. We are a young couple with a three year old son and this could be catastrophic for our family. We applied for hardship on the basis of illness (anxiety), and financial situation but were denied. I know now that I should have ignored the feeling of obligation to participate in the course (created by the fact that my mother had already lined up a deposit for it, and sorted out the entire enrolment prior to me even knowing about it), and instead told her I wasn't interested. We face losing everything we've worked for for over five years, our home, my sons security and our livelihoods because of this horrendously selfish company.