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• Is this serious? (Score:3, Interesting)

  by ziggy (25)

  A twelve week course? Fifteen hours per week?

  At my university, a 4-credit class was 40 hours of class time (with the expectation of 80 hours of self-study) over 10 weeks. If my math is correct, such a course would cost roughly $1600 today as a single course.

  At 180 hours, that would be a full undergraduate course load dedicated to nothing but Perl (oh, and how to use vi and ftp). That would be comparable to teaching 5 subjects.

  Sounds like someone is trolling for cheap (unemployed student) labor.
  • Re:Is this serious? (Score:3, Informative)

    by davorg (18)

    Standard rates for "real" IT training courses in London seem to be about £300 per person per day. The (one!) person who's signed up for this course paid £900 for 60 half days (or 30 days). That's 10% of the commercial rate.

    Apparently they have instructors for their VB and Java courses who are happy earning £5/hour. When they've proved themselves they get a rise to £10/hour.

    And they have someone to teach the Perl course, but they're a bit worried because "her English isn't very good". W
    • Re:Is this serious? (Score:1)

      by Odud (1047)

      I find it hard to believe that they have found people who are happy to teach for £5 an hour - even with the promise of £10 an hour if you are a good boy.
      
      You didn't say what the company does - are they just selling cheap (and probably worthless) training to people who don't know any better?
      
      Where are they getting the trainers from? presumably they don't know they are being ripped off? or perhaps in their home countries it looks like a good rate..
      • Re:Is this serious? (Score:2)

        by davorg (18)

        You didn't say what the company does - are they just selling cheap (and probably worthless) training to people who don't know any better?

        That sounds about right to me.

        In London we have a large number of English language colleges for foreign students. It's impossible to walk down Oxford St without seeing people handing out flyers for them. They offer very cheap courses and presumably pay their teachers peanuts. This seems like the same thing, but with IT skills in place of English.

        Where are they getti
        • Re:Is this serious? (Score:2)

          by ziggy (25) on 2002.01.04 9:16 (#2675) Journal

          He also tried to play the philanthropic card by mentioning "people who wanted to give something back to community". It's a nice idea, but the mortgage still needs to be paid.

          Some places cough [sourceforge.net] offer that benefit, but without the £5/hour rate. :-)

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