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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
Training comparison to QA Training, Learning Tree, GB Direct.

As we're reviewing our prices for the coming year (2010), we compare what we offer with other training companies offering courses on the same programming languages. Our new year decisions were already made, based on last year's research, but earlier today I visited the web sites of Learning Tree, GB Direct and QA Training to do a sanity check for myself.

We offer a four day Learning to program in Python course, and a four day PHP Programming course amongst others at £1100.00 + VAT; I found 4 day courses from the three companies I have named above, in PHP and in Java, priced at £1375.00, £1695.00 and several at £1825.00 - all + VAT.

We offer five day courses in Perl and Java amongst others at £1350.00 + VAT; other courses offered by the companies I've listed on our subjects start from £1575.00 and go up (via £1595.00, £1750.00) to two courses priced at £1995.00 - again, all + VAT.

But list price / price per day isn't everything ... in fact it's only a small part of the 'deal'. You will find if you're a big company that you can push these other companies for discounts in all manner of ways (one of the more expensive web sites even lists four ways of getting the courses at somewhat lower prices.

And then there's the vital; question - Will you really learn what you need to learn, and do so efficiently? I was struck as I did my research as to how long some of the course are ... what we cover in 4 days seems to take other people five to teach. I don't think that's because we rush the subjects; rather:
• We offer different course durations for newcomers to programming and for delegates converting from another language, so our course pacing is much more accurate.
• We run full days of training - I was struck by a four day course that listed out contents, hour by hour, and it was a total of 24 hours of training. So that's 09:30 to 12:30 and 13:30 to 16:30 each day. We run 09:00 to 17:00 (16:30 on the last day) - that's longer, and even then we encourage you to stop around, ask extra questions ... the tutor is around until at least 18:00 and from 08:00, and you'll have training room access at any hour if you want.
• We have a maximum of eight delegates per course, which means that the tutor has far more time to give (per person) during practical and less formal sessions - again helping us to make the best of the time available.
Slightly cynically, I wonder if some folks have made a decided to make their courses five days rather than four because the market will bear it, and because 4 day courses are a bit of a nuisance to training company organisation - they leave resources basically unemployed for a day!

Remember ... if you send your staff on a five day course rather than a 4 day one, you're not only paying extra course fees but you're also paying them another day's salary away from their money-earning roles, and possibly another night's hotel accommodation too.

How are we able to offer such a good deal? For a start, we don't have the big overheads and high marketing budgets that others have, which they need to make them more visible. The majority of our business comes through "Ambassadors" - delegates who have been on previous courses, really liked the training they got, and have told their friends and colleagues. As a token of our appreciation, we make rooms at our hotel (which we run primarily to provide accommodation for delegates) available for past trainees at the delegate rate of £70.00 per room per night (including VAT, 2010 rate) [becomes £72.00 for 2011 due to VAT increase] if they would like to come, visit, tour Wiltshire and see Bath, Lacock, Longleat, Devizes ... at some future date, with their partner.

If this looks refreshingly different, why not try us? Current course schedule [here], and what else is different about our courses [here]. And ... any questions ... please ask me!

This article has, clearly, picked out the positive aspects of what we have to offer. But we're very much a niche company, and there are certain things that we cannot offer which the "big boys" can. For example, many companies prefer to use a big training outfit for ALL their IT courses and of course that's something we can't provide ... although we do subcontract to help wider ranging companies meet specialized requirements where they have such a deal set up. As another example, our training centre is about 90 minutes by train from London, so if you're looking for a course where you can take in a West End show in the evening too, you're probably not looking to come to us!

(written 2010-01-02, updated 2010-12-26)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
G303 - Well House Consultants - During the course
  [56] Dress Code - (2004-09-20)
  [273] Course Picture - (2005-04-09)
  [342] The evening after the course - (2005-06-09)
  [455] A Stengthening day - (2005-10-04)
  [570] Features and Benefits - (2006-01-20)
  [640] Training Centre Pictures - (2006-03-09)
  [670] Architectural Heritage - Devizes - (2006-04-04)
  [1035] Longer hours and better value courses - (2007-01-15)
  [1245] Ensuring that our tutor answers YOUR questions - (2007-06-25)
  [1363] One computer per delegate, or pair programming? - (2007-09-23)
  [1420] The Learning Perl crew, October 2007 - (2007-11-03)
  [1459] Interactive training, and advancing techniques further - (2007-12-05)
  [1466] Effective Java training - the bootcamp approach - (2007-12-09)
  [1816] Holt on holt - (2008-09-29)
  [2342] Training Classes in other tongues - (2009-08-10)
  [3233] C / C++ Course Lunch - sitting out at the West End - (2011-04-07)
  [3588] Learning about how to help people learning - and retaining - (2012-01-21)
  [3771] Fine evening, country walk from Melksham - pictures - (2012-06-21)
  [4132] Using your own laptop on our courses - now even easier! - (2013-07-05)
  [4558] Well House Consultants - Python courses / what's special. - (2015-10-28)

G203 - Well House Consultants - Training course prices
  [101] Good value, low cost, cheap. - (2004-10-27)
  [163] Introduction fees, bonuses, commissions, kickbacks - (2004-12-29)
  [295] Pricing strategy - simple and fair - (2005-04-29)
  [499] Good IT training cannot be cheap - (2005-11-18)
  [1492] Well House Consultants Training and Hotel - 2008 news - (2008-01-01)
  [1912] Book now for 2009 - (2008-11-29)
  [2003] Discount Training Courses - PHP, Perl, Python - (2009-01-21)
  [2311] Floor to ceiling - (2009-07-30)
  [2541] VAT Changes - (2009-12-19)
  [3107] Hotel and Training Course prices - the effect of the VAT rise on 4th January 2011 - (2010-12-26)
  [3196] No news is good news. - (2011-03-07)
  [4082] Training around the world - easy payment in pounds Sterling - (2013-05-10)
  [4230] Well House Consultants - course prices for 2014 - (2013-12-26)
  [4246] Python, PHP, Ruby, C, Lua, etc ... course prices held for the rest of 2014 - (2014-03-08)
  [4379] Well House Consultants / Well House Manor - Prices for 2015 - (2015-01-01)
  [4416] Challenging the IT course business model - (2015-02-05)
  [4602] Training course and hotel room prices - 2016 - (2015-12-31)

G200 - Well House Consultants - Course and Company information
  [13] Mobile Office revamp - (2004-08-13)
  [181] Maximum number of trainees on a course - (2005-01-18)
  [234] How to get the best from your supplier - (2005-03-03)
  [277] Fire drill - (2005-04-12)
  [419] Most popular courses - (2005-08-19)
  [504] We are about Open Source programming courses in the UK - (2005-11-24)
  [549] 2005 - Come as a student, leave as a friend - (2005-12-31)
  [550] 2006 - Making business a pleasure - (2006-01-01)
  [564] Open Source training from Well House Consultants - (2006-01-14)
  [1018] Open Source Courses and Business Hotel - products and prices for 2007 - (2007-01-01)
  [1087] Telling a story in different ways - (2007-02-20)
  [1102] A Reference - (2007-03-08)
  [1317] 2008 course schedule - Perl, Python, PHP, Linux, Java Deployment, Ruby and more - (2007-08-23)
  [1384] An email update for past guests and delegates - (2007-10-08)
  [1453] What makes our courses special? - (2007-12-02)
  [1565] Languages compared - based on developer community size - (2008-03-05)
  [1577] Spring and early summer training courses - (2008-03-15)
  [1623] PHP Techniques - a workshop - (2008-04-26)
  [1629] A short introduction to our courses - (2008-05-03)
  [2041] httpd, Tomcat and PHP course enhancements - (2009-02-14)
  [2118] Spring Sprung - (2009-04-05)
  [2222] A (biased?) comparison of PHP courses in the UK - (2009-06-07)
  [2227] Learning PHP, Ruby, Lua and Python - upcoming courses - (2009-06-11)
  [2278] First courses for 2010 - (2009-07-10)
  [2326] Learn a new programming language this summer. - (2009-08-06)
  [2332] Formation, des langages Open Source - (2009-08-09)
  [2333] Formaci[83][c2]ón, de los lenguajes de c[83][c2]ódigo abierto - (2009-08-09)
  [2334] Formazione, Open Source computer lingue - (2009-08-09)
  [2335] Ausbildung, die Open-Source-Sprachen - (2009-08-09)
  [2336] Forma[83][c2]ç[83][c2]ão, Open Source computador l[83][c2]ínguas - (2009-08-09)
  [2337] Opleiding, Open Source computertalen - (2009-08-09)
  [2338] Uddannelse, Open Source computer sprog - (2009-08-09)
  [2339] Oppl[83][c2]æring, Open Source datamaskinen spr[83][c2]åk - (2009-08-09)
  [2340] ldning, Open Source dator spr[83][c2]åk - (2009-08-09)
  [2341] Koulutus, Open Source tietokone kielill[83][c2]ä - (2009-08-09)
  [2350] Ten years in Melksham - looking forward to ten more. - (2009-08-11)
  [2354] Training, Open Source computer languages - (2009-08-13)
  [2400] Are you wanting to learn PHP? - (2009-09-08)
  [2505] I almost put the bins out this morning - (2009-11-16)
  [2558] Happy new decade - and course and hotel prices for 2010 - (2010-01-01)
  [2637] Courses - Melksham and elsewhere - until the end of April - (2010-02-16)
  [2659] New numbers, as 01225 707126 and 01225 709638 are being retired - (2010-03-04)
  [2661] Current Public Courses - (2010-03-05)
  [2762] Well House - Mission and Policy summaries - (2010-05-13)
  [2777] Blowing our own trumpet - (2010-05-23)
  [2838] Respecting our customers anonimity - (2010-06-29)
  [2925] Well House - the pictures - (2010-08-16)
  [2935] 01225 707126 to 01225 344596 to 01225 899360 - Well House Fax - (2010-08-26)
  [3112] Public and private courses - subjects available for 2011 - (2010-12-29)
  [3115] Perl, Python, PHP, Lua, Linux, and more - and business hotel too. Menu for 2011 - (2010-12-31)
  [3202] Telling you something about us in just one line - (2011-03-15)
  [3235] How we make our programming courses both time and cost effective - (2011-04-09)
  [3816] Want to escape the Olympics? Learn to program in the countryside! - (2012-07-23)
  [3935] Whether you have programmed before or not, we can teach you Python - (2012-11-25)
  [4172] Public courses - Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Lua, Tcl, C and C++ - autumn 2013 and through 2014 - (2013-09-13)
  [4305] Learning to program in Java - yes, we can help. - (2014-09-26)
  [4518] Open source programming courses - October to December 2015 - (2015-09-27)
  [4519] Course Schedule - October 2015 to June 2016 - (2015-09-27)
  [4564] Perl, PHP, Python, Lua, Tcl, C++, Ruby - final public courses for 2015 - (2015-10-30)
  [4588] What teach you in a week stays with you for a decade - (2015-11-29)


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