New Trades Career

[thomas88]

Finally done some digging after many sleepless nights. My story is the same was contacted about my course I was told limited spaces at the time I was depressed at home on fourlough with plenty of free time , my interview was a zoom call and there was no mention of a “loan” I thought I was paying the course off monthly. At the time I was living at home with little outgoings. Few weeks in I got my “starter pack” my next issue I have dislexia and have hand writing and reading issues and struggle to complete book work but after contacting the tutors it’s compulsory part of the course with no support I realised this wasn’t for me and I wouldn’t be able to get thru it, to my horror I realised I’m in fixed loan and can’t cancel. I was promised practical learning with hands on experience “the only way I learn” they have taken advantage of me I was mis informed. For personal reasons I’m now living on my own and with reduced working hours due to covid the £180pm is leaving me with little disposable income. It seems they will let anyone on these courses unfortunately and dont care and if you make in thru or not. Hopefully we can all get out of this. There must be a way out for since there haven’t provided the resources required for my learning disability’s.

Hi Samuel, Thanks for pointing these facts out, what have have you done so far regarding cancelation ?

[Samuel365]

Finally done some digging after many sleepless nights. My story is the same was contacted about my course I was told limited spaces at the time I was depressed at home on fourlough with plenty of free time , my interview was a zoom call and there was no mention of a “loan” I thought I was paying the course off monthly. At the time I was living at home with little outgoings. Few weeks in I got my “starter pack” my next issue I have dislexia and have hand writing and reading issues and struggle to complete book work but after contacting the tutors it’s compulsory part of the course with no support I realised this wasn’t for me and I wouldn’t be able to get thru it, to my horror I realised I’m in fixed loan and can’t cancel. I was promised practical learning with hands on experience “the only way I learn” they have taken advantage of me I was mis informed. For personal reasons I’m now living on my own and with reduced working hours due to covid the £180pm is leaving me with little disposable income. It seems they will let anyone on these courses unfortunately and dont care and if you make in thru or not. Hopefully we can all get out of this. There must be a way out for since there haven’t provided the resources required for my learning disability’s.

[thomas88]

I’d more than happy to get involved in a group to fight this

email me anything you need or want to discuss

Thanks ben could you please remove your email address of here

[Ben howard]

I’d more than happy to get involved in a group to fight this

ben8howard@icloud.completes email me anything you need or want to discuss

[thomas88]

Hi mate, my story is basically the same as everyone else's. I applied for a electrical course, they persuaded me to do the renewable energy engineering course instead as I already work with biomass boilers. They signed me up, I paid the £60 up front cost, they sent me a briefcase with some booklets and some CD Rom things. I rang the course tutors to introduce myself and that's the last I heard from a tutor, that was in November 2020. I figured lockdown had effected them so.i didn't think much of it. I carried on doing coursework and got more and more suspicious that it's all bull, there's spelling mistakes in the booklets and it generally doesn't make much sense. I would do a module or two and then do a tutor marked assessment which is literally 5 questions. At one point I just thought this has got to be a scam so I googled how to cancel the course as I can't really afford it anymore and found all these horror stories online about Carnedge and New Trade Career not letting people cancel.
I had a call today from the Ombudsman after reporting it and they basically told me New trade careers have done nothing wrong. The only advice I was given was to tell my bank not to let them take anymore money and to tell new trade careers that their service is useless. I'm struggling to understand what I can do next.

Hi Grimmy, thanks for telling us whats happened.

we have all received the same useless DVD and book to begin with. " I rang the course tutors to introduce myself and that's the last I heard from a tutor" < this is what has happened to me too, this isn't what i signed up for.

the cost of the course wasn't an issue, it was when i contacted them in jan 21 to ask why i haven't had any communication from the tutors, i get a text from NTC every month saying " We notice you haven't submitted a TMA for some time. Remember you have a tutor team to guide you; please contact them if you need help" this simply isn't up to standard for a eight thousand pound course..... i could have done a Open Uni course for the same money, i would be doing an actual degree. Anyway .................

"Ombudsman after reporting it and they basically told me New trade careers have done nothing wrong." >>> this cant be from the FOS, every time i have tried to talk to them regarding the complaint they haven't even entertained anything to do with the NTC.

"I'm struggling to understand what I can do next" > what to do next is compile all of our cases together to get a strong case against NTC, we need to not concentrate on the Finance company, they haven't done anything wrong According to FOS, all though we will say differently.

please feel free to contact me, i may be able to help as WE ARE ALL STUCK IN THIS, WE WILL WORK BETTER AS A TEAM

thanks thomas88

[thomas88]

Hello

just wondering if anybody has had a response from the ombudsman’s man

been signed up to a renewable energy course and Missd like the rest in around 16months through problems came to light when I came to going for my tests

location wasn’t what was agreed
The amount of days I was needed to attend didn’t fit my work shift pattern etc

tried to cancel they refused
tried the finance people they have refused
looking at the ombudsman now

is there any success stories ?

I have also seen people just cancel which I’d be happy to do if this is actually possible to stop this nightmare

Hi ben, welcome....

so there's a lot of disgruntled people on here, i want to help and I also want whats right.

The FOS ( Financial Ombudsman Service ) are only committed to investigating the Finance company, they are NOT interested in the actual company in question here. they have mis-sold the product to us all, this is such a common practise from what i have seen.

we need to all come together and basically right a fat report on them, the more evidence we have the better chance we have, all i want to do i cancel.

After your 14-day cooling off period you apparently loose your "right to cancel", this isn't true don't let them make you believe this.

I have chased the FOS for info on the case and they say that they are working on it, i will say it as clear as day, i wont win...... i know this from the evidence provided by one of the member on this forum, he kindly provided evidence that there was 14+ claims and non of them won for mis-representation.

they don't see that the Finance company is doing anything wrong, i followed every instruction on how to cancel my contract with NTC and they shrugged it off as if it wasn't even important, this is where i pointed out the facts to the finance company, they took no hesitation in saying that NTC haven't done anything wrong.

My advice is not to cancel your finance agreement as you wont do your self any favours when perusing it further, also a CCJ doesn't come off your financial record.

I'm looking for people who have been given false information prior to signing or upon signing, I'm hungry for evidence to finally close this down once and for all, i was 1000% mis sold this course.

ANYONE READING THIS WHO HAS HAD THE SAME SUITUATION OR EXPERIANCE PLEASE GET IN TOUCH ......

WE ARE COMPLETLY ON OUR OWN WITH THIS!

[Ben howard]

Hello

just wondering if anybody has had a response from the ombudsman’s man

been signed up to a renewable energy course and Missd like the rest in around 16months through problems came to light when I came to going for my tests

location wasn’t what was agreed
The amount of days I was needed to attend didn’t fit my work shift pattern etc

tried to cancel they refused
tried the finance people they have refused
looking at the ombudsman now

is there any success stories ?

I have also seen people just cancel which I’d be happy to do if this is actually possible to stop this nightmare

[Grimmy]

Hi mate, my story is basically the same as everyone else's. I applied for a electrical course, they persuaded me to do the renewable energy engineering course instead as I already work with biomass boilers. They signed me up, I paid the £60 up front cost, they sent me a briefcase with some booklets and some CD Rom things. I rang the course tutors to introduce myself and that's the last I heard from a tutor, that was in November 2020. I figured lockdown had effected them so.i didn't think much of it. I carried on doing coursework and got more and more suspicious that it's all bull, there's spelling mistakes in the booklets and it generally doesn't make much sense. I would do a module or two and then do a tutor marked assessment which is literally 5 questions. At one point I just thought this has got to be a scam so I googled how to cancel the course as I can't really afford it anymore and found all these horror stories online about Carnedge and New Trade Career not letting people cancel.
I had a call today from the Ombudsman after reporting it and they basically told me New trade careers have done nothing wrong. The only advice I was given was to tell my bank not to let them take anymore money and to tell new trade careers that their service is useless. I'm struggling to understand what I can do next.

[thomas88]

Hi guys, I'm in the same boat! Stuck paying for a course that's not real! I've complained to FCA, the ombudsman and all sorts but haven't heard anything back yet. I'm wondering if I could send a letter the Carnedge Consumer Finance and new trade career telling them I no longer intend to pay and am willing to take them to court. Would that have any effect do you think? I cant keep paying these idiots for nothing.

Hi grimmy, we all know that this course isn't real, its only till we're in to it after a month or two after the bull shite cooling off period has expired, I'm sure there are a few of us now that have reported this to the FCA but I know after looking at FCA complaints to this company they will not accept the complaint, this is because they "the finance company" haven't ( according to FCA ) done anything wrong, we've all been miss sold or mis advised about this course, I havent canceled my plan because I do not want a CCJ or and haven't got the time to be dealing with bailifs or threatening letters.

Drop your story on here, the more people that point out that there's obviously an issue with their trading practices, they make it incredibly difficult to pull out of the contract, this is because the finance isn't provided by the pretend collage. Even the "state of the art" training centers are operated by a third party and not the collage, so what does this collage actually teach you for the 8k?

Thats a question I'm dying to know?

Tell us your story......

[Grimmy]

Hi guys, I'm in the same boat! Stuck paying for a course that's not real! I've complained to FCA, the ombudsman and all sorts but haven't heard anything back yet. I'm wondering if I could send a letter the Carnedge Consumer Finance and new trade career telling them I no longer intend to pay and am willing to take them to court. Would that have any effect do you think? I cant keep paying these idiots for nothing.

Hello everyone I signed with the new trades career and know I started to have doubts, just wanted to ask if someone reach the practical. Cause they send me this health and safety test after 3 months of passing assessments, as a "pre_workshop test" and I'm trying to pass this test and everytime it's saying that I failed even though I'm sure I'm doing great on the test, and between attempts you need to wait 7 days, today was my second attempt, I contacted them by email cause the phone wasn't working, they said it's a computer generated test and we can't help you.

I failed that 4 times, I even did it with the book in front of me, reading the questions and googling every answer. I am sure that they purposely fail this to slow you down, in the end they sent me a written test which was 36 pages of multiple part questions, literally took me a few hours over a couple weeks to complete. Finally "Passed" that after ringing the tutor and asking why they just kept emailing me to say they have received it and not marked it. Then she just passed it like that.

I would just like to add.

I stupidly signed up to this as a friend of mine had done so also, told me it was a good course I could learn from home blah blah, we all fell for it.

All the fake websites with fake reviews, the crap course content.

Literally most of the stuff I am sent to check and links we receive all take us to free online pages supplied by the government or other training providers.

The "Course" costs £180 a month, apparently at these training centres you pay £50+ for each session when you are down there?

Literally I regret taking this out so much. I was sold the idea and told me how easy it can be to do in my own time, didnt mention the time limit.

I have looked at everything pretty much, we are stuck in this contract. The best thing we can do is literally try and work through it and get some qualification at least. I signed up in January 2020 so 2020 was an extra bad luck year for me.

Currently I have paid over £2880 with 16 months of £180 payments.

I feel for all of you because I am in the same position.

[Ghiciu]

I mention that this is not all ... I would have had other online tests in the past until I got to start the practice .... That does not mean that I would have passed the final exam ...

[Ghiciu]

Hi
I started the plumber course with New trades career for level 2 NVQ financed by Caledonian consumer finance ltd.
I started the course in 2018 and from the beginning I was told not to hurry and to take the course when I have free time, because there is no hurry. It was harder for me because English is not my first language and there are a lot of technical words, but I managed to finish 42 modules (chapters and as many tests) this being the equivalent of level 3 nvq. When I got to test 34 I sent a message to the course tutor and I told him that I said from the beginning that I want to do the NVQ level 2 course not level 3 .. and I was told when you finish the whole theory I will come to practice for level 2 nvq.
I want to mention that I had to go through tests and online courses that I felt were never ending ... only the books measured together are 22cm thick. Due to the pandemic, I did not practice and in April 2021 I was blocked from taking the online course because I do not do my best at the plumber course.
I was blocked by New trades career but I am under contract to continue to pay 1400 to Caledonian consumer finance ltd.
And I am insistently pressured with phone calls and emails to continue to pay the whole contract and after that to do what I want in court or where I see fit.
I can't say I'm a very good student, but I've been through a lot of theory
, even though I didn't gain a lot of knowledge doing our practice and I lost a lot of time and money and I didn't have any support from New trades career and they never sent me any message or email ... to tell me to I'm in a hurry to help me in some way. Initially I wanted to change my job but after a while I had the impression that it will never end ... The experience I had with this course was the nightmare of my life that unfortunately did not end ...
Thank you

[Mo95]

Everybody report this to financial obdsuman its a big SCAM ive been scammed iswell

[Electrical12]

I am also in the same boat as many of you