Web design course advice....

[The Coal Man]

Got a mate who has is interested in a career change into I.T (did ask him why??), specifically Web Design, and he is thinking of enroling on one of the part-time web design courses run by these lot:

http://www.computeach.co.uk/
http://www.nationalitlearningcentre.com/
http://www.career-in-it.co.uk/
http://www.homelearningcollege.com/

Anyone used these before, good / bad comments, or a complete waste of time and money?

[Ruprect]

Got a mate who has is interested in a career change into I.T (did ask him why??), specifically Web Design, and he is thinking of enroling on one of the part-time web design courses run by these lot:

http://www.computeach.co.uk/
http://www.nationalitlearningcentre.com/
http://www.career-in-it.co.uk/
http://www.homelearningcollege.com/

Anyone used these before, good / bad comments, or a complete waste of time and money?

Don't bother - web designers are 10 a penny. Literally. That is the sort of rate you'd be on.

[Liability]

Don't bother - web designers are 10 a penny. Literally. That is the sort of rate you'd be on.

id disagree with that...I know of two that are good, work from home, and have a good base of clients and earn a bloody good monthyl pay from all of them for support and maintanence [im talking double digit thousand] - but they are tulip hit but only been doing it for 5 years.

[PAH]

Tell him to enrol on an art course. Silverlight is going to conquer the world, and you only really need drawing skills for that.

Other benefit is there will actually be some totty on the art course. Precious little of it in IT. For that reason, I'm suprised there aren't more gay programmers, it's a great way to meat men.


[nope, that's not a spelling mistake]

[The Coal Man]

Thanks for the advice, I'll let him know.
Cheers.