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Greetings All, I wasn't sure where to post this and 'Hardware' seemed the most appropriate, though 'Jobs' might also do... My Line Manager has tasked me with finding out about Certified Hardware Maintenance courses; not online, but actual 'hands-on'. I was wondering what sort of courses colleagues on this forum might have attended that might be appropriate? I'm looking at 'general maintenance and repair' non-proprietary e.g. any brand (though mainly Lenovo and HP), laptops, monitors etc. I've looked around but not really been able to find anything - I might even have to go bespoke, and this might also be more appropriate to an apprenticeship stlye of learning. In fact, I suspect the intention is to bring in an Apprentice with the intention of carrying out regular in-house repairs. For reference, I did the CompTIA A+, back in 2006/7 and a Computing HNC in 2010, neither of these were practical 'hands-on' courses. I suspect that most of us only attempt to repair items that are out of warrantee and you've got nothing to lose by trying out a repair, when the alternative is the scrap-heap. So if anyone knows of any practical, hands-on, general hardware repair/maintenance courses, I would be very much obliged if you could share your thoughts. Many thanks!

Hi I want to get some certification to back up my skills. I have some funding available if I can get on classroom based course... of up to £1500 including travel, etc. I live on the east side of mid wales, near Shrewsbury/ Telford. Does anyone know of anywhere? Thanks

Hi I'm curently working as an ICT Techncian in a school and have recently passed my MCDST. I was wondering if anyone could advise me on what would be the best qualification to pursue next. I was thinking about the MCSE but I'm not sure if there are any other paths that could be lucrative. I do want to work my way up to being an ICT Manager but I was also thinking I may like some qualifications in programming. And maybe even some (Dare I say it) Mac/iOS qualifications. Thanks for any help you can give me.

Hi All I'm looking to move on in my career and have stumbled across the CITM qualification. Does anyone have one of these or know of anyone who has? It seems to be only delivered by one company in the UK. Is it worth doing or is it a US import that supposedly gone global??

Does any one know if you can add qualifications gained elsewhere (ALAN, NVQ's etc) to CMIS and then have the results show on the students result slip? I know SIMS does it ( used it before and you can add results so you have an accurate performance indicator) but not sure if/how CMIS can do this? Thank you!

Hi all I’ve worked at a school for 15 years and have been Network Manager for the last 10 years, I’m fully self taught but am now thinking that should i wish to leave and take a step up i should probably have some sort of officially recognised qualifications. Could anyone recommend a starting point of what kind of course I should look into and then perhaps where to go after that? Many thanks!

Good Afternoon All, I am currently employed as an Assistant IT Manager in a secondary, our old Network Manager has left and we have yet to reappoint, in the interim I was wondering if anyone on here had any recommendations for courses (ones that have a qualification/exam linked to them) to take to learn the relevant networking, routing and switching skills to be a qualified Network Manager? As I would need the school to fund it, the cheaper the better ideally I have completed a Level 4 network engineer course from City and Guilds but it really only touches on the actual networking side of things Any recommendations greatly appreciated

Looking at a few jobs and the higher up you go the move they are asking for ITIL. Does anyone have any experience or vendors who they have done the course / training with as want to get this done and added to the CV soon as!! Is it majorly hard and indepth? Is a full course required or would a good read of a book be sufficient? Thanks

I wasn't sure where to post this but I've been an ICT technician in Primary school's (two of) for about 10 years now and have no professional ICT qualifications... What would you recommend I do to gain a respectable qualification? My experience so far in the time I have been doing is is Web design, hardware support, network management and software. I also have experience in using Windows server 2003 with Active Directory. Hope you can help so I can persuade school to let me do some studying J x