Do they just throw you onto any random course, regardless of your skills and working history?
Sounds so familiar - worked with a person who was doing manual book-keeping course... - nobody knew what they were doing - tutor was crap - and then these students were expected to do exams - which coincidently a high percentage failed - typically no questions asked by those in authority!
there was no pressure on her to do it, but it was the first course that had places available and was the only way for her to get an incomeDo they just throw you onto any random course, regardless of your skills and working history?
Can we possibly pass on this thread to Shane Ross? If, (and I am not doubting the OP considering some of the stories I have heard about FAS course) it really is a joke.
On a related subject, my girlfriend lost her job a year ago and was told by FAS to dumb down her cv to help her find employment. When she said she worked damn hard for that cv and wouldn't dumb it down, she was told she deserved to be unemployed. She was then offered a ECDL course.
There was a story/urban myth doing the rounds years ago about a FAS, or ANCO, course where they practiced telephone answering skills. They hadn't telephones to practise with, so they used bananas.
Or so the story goes.
Maybe things haven't change that much since then ?
What's the point? - using excel to calculate PRSI etc?A year on she is on to extremely complex formulas for designing a wages spreadsheet through Excel for a company employing twenty people.
Having seen the formulas she needs to learn it is like a mad scientists chalk board scribblings, everyone starts on a level footing, some go as far as their intellect will allow and others as far as they wish to progress dependant on their abillities.
A year on she is on to extremely complex formulas for designing a wages spreadsheet through Excel for a company employing twenty people.
perhaps you should consider a FAS course yourself in basic English Staples, if you understood by simple post you would comprehend the following quote.
"It is only part of the course which comprises many facets other than Excel".
As I said some people are never happy unless they are gripeing.
A litany of complaint against FAS courses and a little glimmer of good and there is a clamour to shoot it down. Typical Irish begrudgery
A litany of complaint against FAS courses and a little glimmer of good and there is a clamour to shoot it down. Typical Irish begrudgery
Eh? How the hell is it begrudgery to criticise a company with a budget of €1 billion of taxpayers money just because they offer a 'glimmer of good' amoung a litany of complaints?