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Re: New Horizons
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Wed, 22 Mar 2000 05:30:54 GMT
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 15:28:14 GMT, "Scott E. Sanburn"
<ssanburn@cleanweb.net> wrote:
> To All,
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> Well, AEI has finally gotten around to paying for my network
> administration classes, I am going to New Horizons:
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> http://www.newhorizons.com/
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> They seem to be a pretty big organization. Does anyone know about this
> company, or have any experiences with it? Our Systems Administrator in
> our main office in Madison is going the full course of Administration,
> but I don't know for sure how much I will be.
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> The class I am attending is a 5 day class, around $2000.00, and I get
> paid while I am there, so I am not complaining! :)
New Horizons is a fairly large chain training place. Our local
Computer Learning Center recently bought a NH franchise.
The training can be really good or really bad, it depends mostly on
the instructor but also on the quality of your fellow students.
I was in training 2 of the last 3 weeks (one accelerated Win2k class
and one Visual Basic class) and I've probably been to at least 7 other
classes within the last year. Most were _good_. One was _great_.
One was a waste of my time. That mix out of 9 classes is probably ok.
Training, along with my recent fairly substantial raise, is why I'm
satisfied to stay at my current employer for now. Somehow the people
up top have gotten it that good people should be sent to the training
they need and want, although they still haven't fully gotten the fact
that bad people should be shown the door. But it's government, so
what do you expect?
Back to my comment on the quality. These places are in the business
of selling training to people with money. You'll see "prerequisites"
posted for each class but don't think they are strictly enforced. I
have noticed, especially since this place got the NH franchise, that
the only requirement is that the student be willing and able to pay.
So you're almost sure to see a mix of truly qualified professional
people as well as at least one or two who think that taking a class or
two is a ticket to a better paying job.
I'm all for people doing whatever it takes to better themselves so
they can get ahead, but I think that a lot of people going through
these computer/network classes are kidding themselves if they really
believe they'll go from selling hardware and never touching a computer
to making $60k/year to administer a real company's network after a
couple of classes and setting up a tiny peer-to-peer network at home.
And I think the training centers themselves play a large role in
leading them to believe this sort of crap.
But again, the training CAN be really good, and even if your
instructor is the "read out of the book type" or if your class is
slowed down by students who don't belong in the class asking too many
low-level questions, you get the materials and you get some hands-on
practice with stuff, and you get paid to do it, so it's a win-win
situation all around.
Hope you enjoy it. And I hope you don't come back to a nightmare at
work like I usually do after being gone for a week.
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| Mike, (...) Hmm... Sounds like most of the classes in college that I have had recently. :) (...) Thank you, sir! :) I am looking forward to it, especially since I am fairly new to all of this admin stuff, I have pretty much learned everything on the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| To All, Well, AEI has finally gotten around to paying for my network administration classes, I am going to New Horizons: (URL) seem to be a pretty big organization. Does anyone know about this company, or have any experiences with it? Our Systems (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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