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Old 30th Mar 2006, 11:46
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I'm not aware of any truly independent, unbiased, professional advisers who would consider attempting to advise you on the type of course to take and which school to take it at. Most of the advisers I know will only take you on (for a tidy fee!) once you have your CPL/IR/MCC.

While advice is here, it is sometimes difficult to sift the rubbish from the good stuff. Almost all posts about an individual school, when comparing it to another, are worthless because the poster has usually only attended one of the schools under discusion. There is a great deal of loyalty given to the school a wannabe attended, even if it can be objectively shown to be not very good. Whether that's because people don't like to admit that they made a mistake, ar that they simply never knew what to expect and thus have no yardstick to judge against, it's difficult to ascertain.

That's why you have to look carefully through this site. Pick out the posts that give objective judgements, with corroberative evidence. Forget the whingers and snipers - and look out for the inter-school covert rivalry, where staff (posting as students) post under multiple identities in order to promote their own particular establishment. First-post eulogies are a dead-cert giveaway!

Read through the sticky thread at the top of this forum; within it are links to a great many topics which may be very useful to you - particularly the age issue. Don't pay any dream-sellers to provide the info that you can get here.

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