Computer Training Courses UK

If you're looking for computer training courses, UK based LearningLolly is the company most likely to help you.

Our ranges of interactive disc-based training courses enable you to learn many different skills in a most interesting manner.

We cover User-Skills (software-specific training - like the ECDL or Microsoft Office) as well as a complete range of career training courses for those interested in Networking & Support, Programming, Web Design, Cisco and Databases.

Our team of advisors can help and advise you of your options. Their experience of the computer industry will enable you to find out about the field you're interested in and give you an overview of what the job is like.

We can also help you resolve which IT job you'll enjoy the most.

Once you know where you're going, we'll be able to create a course with the exact qualifications industry wants, and with the level of qualification that suits the size of your ambitions.

The full career courses come on a complete suite of discs...

They provide a user-friendly way of training through video tutorials from some of the best trainers in the world. You'll follow active on-screen demonstrations, and labs where you interact with the software and hone your new skills. There are no technical books to bore you - it's all computer-based training.

Low Priced Computer training courses - UK based

LearningLolly offers a full, second-to-none support package with all our career courses. This is provided by four support centres placed in different time zones around the world, enabling you to have real 24x7 Support. Log in to the team of mentors anytime day or night and they'll solve your challenge there and then. There is no waiting for someone to call you back!

This level of teaching and support enables you to study our computer training courses from home anywhere in the UK or around the world. Without the need to visit a classroom, training becomes a much easier option to fit into a busy lifestyle.

With training this good, there's no need for us to pass on the costs of an expensive college. We can offer you a better quality of career training for hundreds of pounds less than other course providers, saving you time and money.

Add all this to our job placement assistance service, and our packages provide the best computer training courses UK wide. Click for an information pack to find out more...

Frankly Speaking... thoughts for the day!

Outrageous Tax On Training

There was a time when governments realised the value of educating people to join the workforce, and consequently help the country to trade more profitably. But when New Labour, (and Tony and Gordon specifically) took control, one of their changes was to add VAT to the previously exempt cost of training. It was a bitter blow at the time, and showed no foresight or consideration of the consequences - small wonder we're now so short of qualified individuals in the IT industry. Along with many others, it was just another one of those stealth taxes from Chancellor Brown, out for a quick gain despite the dire problems it was stacking up for the future.

But in these times of great economic hardship, how can the government justify still charging VAT on personal training programmes? Surely if any time was the right time to do the responsible thing, that time is now. Education and training are the backbone of a civilised, profitable society. Learning not only contributes to personal wealth, it is the major influence on the growth of successful companies and therefore the country as a whole. Taxing training puts it in the category of a luxury item - making the student pay the government for the extravagance of their learning experience!

But how many more young people could enter the world of IT training if their expenses were cut by 17.5%? On the one hand, we have employers crying out for qualified IT professionals, and on the other we have a closed door to many who just haven't the money to get onto that first rung of the ladder. Companies can't afford to start the training process for their staff - they look for those who've already begun to develop their skills and gained commercial qualifications.

This prohibitive tax hurts the individual consumer - companies who pay for further staff training can claim the VAT back from the government, so apart from extra administration they're not affected. The training companies themselves gain nothing from charging VAT - they have to pay it straight on to the taxman! On the contrary, if training was tax exempt, more people could afford to study, so more qualified IT personnel could fill the many vacancies available, and businesses would have more chance of thriving in these challenging times.

The only group appearing to benefit financially from VAT on training is the government. But is it really? Surely it's in the country's best interests to encourage training, and have a more educated, employable workforce. Commercial training doesn't enjoy the financial support of low interest student loans as universities do...

The very least Chancellor Darling could do is not charge VAT!