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Employee Training Institute |
Quality of facilities B
Price B
Accessibility B+
Hours B
Accreditation Yes |
This school is associated with the San Diego Community College District, so the drive to get you enrolled is not so uppermost in the minds of the staff as at the free enterprise schools. Remember that at virtually all the other schools, in particular the non accredited ones, the enrolment people get paid a commission to sign you up. If I recall correctly, this sort of incentive system is not allowed at accredited schools. Their accreditation comes through the SDCCD.
Sarah Halstead is the suprema here and one of her lead instructors is Ben Motten, who was one of the people who got Microskills off the ground back in the days when it seemed like a good idea due to the explosion in the IT industry.
Rather than pot of gold promises of jobs once you get trained and certified (through the SDCCD's discounted program), they have a scheme where they hire out graduates on contract.
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Remington College |
Quality of facilities C+
Price B
Accessibility B+
Hours B+
Accreditation Yes |
An accredited school, so again you will be eligible to get very low cost Federal loans and a degree. See the ITT notes.
Remington like UOP, ITT and the other accredited colleges is not a single discipline institute. They offer training to be medical assistants, You can expect a phone call or two follow up. The facilities are not the best. |
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New Horizons |
Quality of facilities B
Price B
Accessibility B-
Hours B-
Accreditation No |
On the same strip mall as Microskills. This strip mall was owned by Firouz Memarzadeh, the owner of Microskills, and is a San Diego landmark, the Pyramid on Miramar Rd. Unfortunately shows the the lack of research that some Microskills students have done. If they walked the 100 yards from Microskills over to New Horizons they could save themselves $7000.
New Horizons, which has a nationwide presence, charges about $10,000 for a program leading to an MCSA, which they recommend, so they are not as hard core as some of the other schools who want you to get MCSE and CCNA etc. If you want to get an MCSE there, that will cost you an extra $2-3,000. They have links with a third party firm which carries out job placement. |
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Here is a note from an instructor at another technical school:
I must, for the moment use a false name as I need to keep my job for the moment. I am currently employed at ***** as an instructor in their Computer Service Technician course. I am currently looking for employment elsewhere because I can't, in good conscience, recommend them any longer or continue working there. The tuition for the course is $12600 for what ammounts to a very sparse introductory Linux course and five 1-month certification cram courses in A+, Network+, MCP for XP, MS Certified Help Desk support tech and MCP for 2003 server.
The course curriculum was, until last month, nearly four years out of date and the Linux textbook is currently still based on Red Hat 7.3, some six versions behind the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or Fedora 5. The textbooks were focused on upgrading from NT4 to 2000 server for the server course. The desktop operating system text was for 2000 Pro. The only really current text was for the helpdesk course(XP focused). The lab equipment is all at least four years old and can barely run the current versions of XP. The 16 desktop computers in one lab can't run Fedora Core 5(hardware too old). The newer equipment in the other lab can't run the Red Hat 7.3 that comes with the textbook(hardware too new) I had to supply Fedora 5 to my students. The Linux text is so old that it doesn't even cover standard Linux software such as CUPS and SSH.
There are no routers for the networking course. Subnetting is barely mentioned in the curriculum.
The textbooks and curriculum have recently been uptdated, the Server course is now using the Thompson MCSE guide to 2003 Server, a distinct improvement, but the students no longer get to keep the Lab manuals. These are now to be kept as class copies. The students only keep the texts. ***** advertizes that tuition covers the cost of books. Their purported reason for this change is that they don't want to have to RAISE THE TUITION. The A+ and Network+ texts have also been updated, but to the books covering the soon to be phased out 2003 exams for A+ and the 2001 exams for Network+. They could have waited three months and gotten books covering the newer exams.
I am a Windows/Linux Network consultant with six years experience and a CCNA. I have built three large networks running Windows 2003 server and Linux in a hybrid network. I was willing to keep this job so long as I thought there was interest in improvement being made. The company was recently so far in the hole that they had to seek private financing from Goldman Sachs to stay afloat. Pay raises have been frozen for everyone but the marketing(called admissions) people. At a recent meeting with our new CEO, he stated that our product was a graduated student. I mentioned that I thought our product was the knowledge we imparted, the curriculum we developed, and the training we instilled. He responded that I should keep thinking that, but, in manufacturing, the thing that goes in the front door and comes out the back door is ususally the product. I find it alarming that he seems not to realize that we're a service business. I find it unconscionable that he thinks the students are paying $12600 for their own emergence from the school. At best, he seems not to know what business we're in, at worst, he's only concerned about the number of students we process through the school, not the quality of education they receive.
My advice don't waste your money. Check out the www.sandiegocet.net site for much better deals. I have a state vocational teaching credential and am currently trying to get hired by the National City Adult School found via www.suhsd.k12.ca.us. They have reasonable prices, excellent instructors, decent equipment, and they are WASC accredited rather than ACCET accredited as ***** is.
Just thought you should know.
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