Guildhall - losing the plot???
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Pass rates on distance learning courses combined with revision courses can be very good. It is not unusual to get results like 40% full pass, 50% partial, 10% fail but these are a measure of the students' application as much as of the course. If you don't work you don't pass. We do not have solid numbers on pass rates so these are unreliable estimates and we cannot compare them to other schools who will only tell what they want to tell. Interestingly, because under JAA the school will have to stamp the exam application, the CAA will know where students have trained and they will monitor the JAA exam pass rates to see which schools are doing well and which are not. I bet you won't be able to access that information under New Labour's plans for open government!
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Thought I might put you straight on the OATS rumours ! We do offer VTR on our Distance Learning courses to those who have either registered for NVQ at level 4 or for those who are over 30 with VTR2. VTR ceases on the 31st August 2000, NVQ continues to three years after registration date: please remember that NVQ and VTR are two different things ! VTR is available on both modular and integrated courses if the student has registered. For those wishing to get VTR (over 30's) on their flying courses they have to prove to the Inland Revenue that they have completed a full-time course - what this means to the Inland Revenue is 16 hours per week - this is the difficulty; for those registered, no problem at all ! On the matter of Distance Learning, we were the first school to gain approval for our course and no, it was not written by Four Forces to which we take great exception !!
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Ah, I seem to remember that NVQ cut off date was 3 years after registration.
So that means I have until June 2001 if my ever shrinking brain serves me right.
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HRhodes, how is the virtual college and the distance learnig going at OATS? And why do you only offer a 2 week or 8 week section of groundschool on phase 1, 4 weeks would be perfect? ... and maybe attract my cash
So that means I have until June 2001 if my ever shrinking brain serves me right.
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HRhodes, how is the virtual college and the distance learnig going at OATS? And why do you only offer a 2 week or 8 week section of groundschool on phase 1, 4 weeks would be perfect? ... and maybe attract my cash
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Hello Helen,
Thanks for your post. Can you give me a reference on the 16 hours rule, the IR at Bootle verbally quoted 30 hours as a minimum but it would be a great help to us all if this lower figure exists in writing. I still don't see how NVQ applies to the JAA licence, the NVQ for piloting transport aircraft specifically quoted the CAA CPL IR, can you check?
Its well worth reiterating that the OATS notes were not written by Four Forces they have been under development for a long time and at great expense. As far as I know, and I will probably be corrected on this, the only UK schools producing their own notes for JAA are Oxford, Bristol, PPSC and SFT and certainly the PPSC and Bristol package will have a CBT element, probably on CD ROM rather than web based. All others are based on notes supplied under contract by Four Forces. It is also worth emphasising that not all distance learning courses will be of the same quality, you often get what you pay for. Remember the JAA exam fees are over 700 pounds.
Thanks for your post. Can you give me a reference on the 16 hours rule, the IR at Bootle verbally quoted 30 hours as a minimum but it would be a great help to us all if this lower figure exists in writing. I still don't see how NVQ applies to the JAA licence, the NVQ for piloting transport aircraft specifically quoted the CAA CPL IR, can you check?
Its well worth reiterating that the OATS notes were not written by Four Forces they have been under development for a long time and at great expense. As far as I know, and I will probably be corrected on this, the only UK schools producing their own notes for JAA are Oxford, Bristol, PPSC and SFT and certainly the PPSC and Bristol package will have a CBT element, probably on CD ROM rather than web based. All others are based on notes supplied under contract by Four Forces. It is also worth emphasising that not all distance learning courses will be of the same quality, you often get what you pay for. Remember the JAA exam fees are over 700 pounds.
