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Steer clear of Open Colleges....
I wouldn’t recommend Open Colleges to anyone. The poor service starts with the high pressure sales pitch to get you to enrol, with minimal information supplied about how it all works, the support you get or the course content. Then from the onset of the course there is no support at all. I realise it’s an online course, but there is no follow up - EVER. No one rings or emails to ask how ur going or if you need help. I had over 6 months off for personal reasons and no one checked to see why. And then when I came back and emailed and requested help, no help came. I also phoned and asked and no help came. I got 3 extensions which they happily took my money for, but didn’t ask why and again, no help came. The course material is poorly written and lacks substance. The links often don’t work or direct you to pages that are out of date. The Assessments are extremely unprofessional with spelling and grammatical errors everywhere, links don’t work, even the font type and size change mid document. Often statements and assessment questions are contradictory or don’t make sense. And the project mngt unit is written for Real Estate agents when I’m studying interior design. How hard is it to ensure it’s relevant to the subject you’re studying? The Lecturers are very hard to contact and will only answer through Open Space and sometimes it takes a week to get an answer on something. Assessment Feedback has often had another student’s name on it and you can tell it’s cut and pasted from someone else’s assessment. I’m not sure my Diploma is worth the paper it’s written on and have very little faith that it’s of any value to an employer in the real world. Very very disappointing. I will never study through them again and I certainly wouldn’t recommend them.