Hello Maddogs. Sorry your course experience was not a good one. It's difficult to evaluate a course in advance and it sounds like you were disapointed at your outcome. You dont mention for what purpose you required the training but I'll offer a few suggestions anyway.
I think it's important to establish what the level of tuition you require for instance, a Company investigator as part of a Board may not require the same level of knowledge and training as someone wanting a career with an investigation body such as a federal agency. For instance do you require knowledge, skills or competency in the investigation process. Not all courses are designed to take in all three.
A reputable training organisation will set out clear outcomes, goals and learning objectives and should have no difficulty in allowing you to interview previous students. If you can contact some of the European investigation associations they will have criteria for membership and identify the level of knowedge they require for membership. Contacting a couple of those organisations maybe useful and might assist you to make choices for future participants.
If you can establish a clear criteria that you can evaluate the courses against, this will make the task much easier. I'm not sure I can recommend specific courses as such, but no doubt other posters may have experience with UK courses they have found useful.
I have found that some of the better courses are conducted by the various Schools of Transport at the Universities. Most have considerable variety in course length, level of knowledge etc. and offer points towards a full undergraduate or post graduate degree.
Cheers
H
Last edited by Hawk; 21st March 2003 at 02:12.