My concern is that I'd also like to keep up the kind of lifestyle that I'm used to at the moment on a salary around the 45k mark gross taking into account I lose around 5k in net salary to train fare. I know a lot would say it's not all about the cash and it certainly isn't but there's still the mortgage to pay and a young child to support!
I would suggest that those sort of wishes and resposibilities would be hard to accomodate with the time, effort and loss of salary that would be needed to do the course. Talk to Farnborough College.
BTW It is QinetiQ. Any contact with them that used Qinetic would go straight in the bin...........if I was involved!