In February 2009, petrol was £0.90 per litre, in February 2010 it was £1.12 and by February 2011 it was £1.28.

In February 2009, a 2 day public course at Well House Consultants would have cost you £600.00 + VAT. In February 2010 it would still have been £600.00 + VAT, and in February 2011 it remained at £600.00 + VAT. And if you look at prices for private courses on site, you'll find they are unchanged too. That's because we've been able to make some efficiencies, because interest rates that we have to pay are low at the moment, and because the cost of renewing computer equipment has dropped over the years and we've been passing on that saving. Equipment has also got significantly lighter, helping us to keep a lid on our average travel costs by using rail and bus transport rather more, against a rising petrol (for car) and airline tax backdrop.

Here I am - in March 2011 - with our web site quoting prices for courses booked by 31st of this month. And I've just take a phone call from a potential customer looking for a discount based on "our budgets are tight". Yes - so are ours and we want to do our best for our customers - ALL of our customers and not just those who start bargaining / asking for a special deal.


All of our deals are special. We are leaving prices unaltered for the rest of 2011 - so you can book any course, and the hotel rooms that goes with it if you're staying with us - at the same ex-VAT (UK £s) price that you would have paid for the same course in the same location in 2009.

One of those "no news is good news" stories ...

What courses are we talking about? Public courses in programming languages:
• Perl Programming - 5 courses
• PHP Programming - 6 courses
• Python Programming - 3 courses
• Lua Programming - 3 courses
• Tcl Programming - 3 courses
• Java Programming - 3 courses
• C and C++ Programming - 5 courses
• Ruby Programming - 4 courses
and also public courses in:
• The MySQL database - 1 course
• Linux and web server deployment - 5 courses


Private (single client company) courses are tailored - often heavily tailored - from the outlines of public courses, and we have many extra modules that we can use which don't appear on any public courses - there's a complete list of current and archive modules [here] ... and if we offer most of what you need in these lists, we may be able to offer all that you need - please ask. And at 2009 prices too.

P.S. We've also held the delegate hotel rate at £60.00 + VAT (so that's £72.00 inc VAT) per room per night. And that rate is available to delegates who've attended a Well House course at any time - at our place or at yours. All rooms are double, prices include a superior continental breakfast for 2 people. Ideal for sightseeing in Wiltshire, or for an overnight stop on your way to the West Country. See Well House Manor web site. Now staffed, from early till late, 7 days a week. Let me know if you'll be bringing a technical question with you ...


Pictures - course resources, classroom setup, and a course delagate on last week's private Tcl course which tas tailored to include elements of wish and Tk, but excluded expect as it was not required by the client.
(written 2011-03-07)

 G204 - Well House Consultants - Equipment and facilities
  [432] New print centre for our manuals - (2005-09-01)
  [450] Wheelchair access - can do! - (2005-09-25)
  [452] Is enough enough? - (2005-09-27)
  [460] New Network - (2005-10-10)
  [1089] Playing old games - (2007-02-22)
  [1126] MacFormat - Me and My Mac - (2007-03-31)
  [1363] One computer per delegate, or pair programming? - (2007-09-23)
  [1364] Korn shell course - resources - (2007-09-24)
  [1415] Better technology makes for longer commutes? - (2007-10-29)
  [1488] New trainee laptop fleet for our Open Source courses - (2007-12-30)
  [1701] Training Course and Business Conference Technology - (2008-07-07)
  [2032] Mobile Internet - an alternative to hotel WiFi - (2009-02-09)
  [2222] A (biased?) comparison of PHP courses in the UK - (2009-06-07)
  [2370] C++, Python, and other training - do we use an IDE - (2009-08-21)
  [2795] Simon says - (2010-06-05)
  [2810] A course review - for the tutor to complete - (2010-06-14)
  [2850] Fresh Paint for course presentation - including C++ - (2010-07-03)
  [2935] 01225 707126 to 01225 344596 to 01225 899360 - Well House Fax - (2010-08-26)
  [3109] A weighty decision - (2010-12-26)
  [3130] New Computers for delegates to use - (2011-01-13)
  [3137] Training Classes - should the training company provide a system for each delegate to use? - (2011-01-18)
  [3174] Sharing a single hotel internet connection without carrying extra hardware - (2011-02-18)
  [3310] How fast is your Internet access? Do you need something faster for your business or home? - (2011-05-29)
  [3489] Python courses and Private courses - gently updating our product to keep it ahead of the game - (2011-10-20)
  [4261] Updated delegate computers - nine of the best - (2014-04-10)

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)
  [2560] Training comparison to QA Training, Learning Tree, GB Direct. - (2010-01-02)
  [3107] Hotel and Training Course prices - the effect of the VAT rise on 4th January 2011 - (2010-12-26)
  [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)

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How a for loop works Java, Perl and other languages
Lunch for Melksham Businesses
TransWilts rail - coming together, wanted and needed
Finding and diverting image requests from rogue domains
No news is good news.
Sunny day - Clanger and Picket Woods, Shearwater, and Westbury
Buses - what they cost and their future direction in the SW and in Wiltshire
Melksham Campus - what, why, questions, concerns and how you can input
Tcl - Some example of HOW TO in handling data files and formats
Date of the Census (which month and day?)