PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner 5 day courses in London - recommendation for training providers please

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Hello all

The title says it all really. Nothing on the jobs market at the moment so want to use the down time to upskill. Recommendations for PRINCE2 training gratefully received.

Thanks very much in advance

i know there are other project managers out there cooee!

bump

gosh things move out of active convos quickly these days

I can find out who our lot use for this if you want, tomorrow.

hi yes please that would be great. thanks

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My husband (project manager in central gov) did his PRINCE2 with a company called Maven Training and recommends them. This is their site:
www.maventraining.co.uk/

I did the 5 day course in Glasgow witha company called Advantage Learning. I believe that they also offer courses in London. Was v impressed with the company and the trainer (called Mike I seem to recall). Mike was a v experienced pm who used to be a marker for Prince before they changed the format of the practitioner test to be multiple choice/ computer marked.

Despite what people said to me I didn't find the course too arduous but I have been working on projects for a few years now and the concepts were familiar. There were some people on the course who really struggled with the workload as they were learning it all from scratch.

One thing i would advise is to check the mix of self funded attendees (like yourself) to people whose company is putting them through the course. Ideally you don't want to be the only self funder as you may find some of the company attendees don't take it as seriously as they aren't spending 1.5k of their own money on the course and it doesn't really matter to them whether they pass or not.

Inspirandum (www.inspirandum.com) are great and run courses in Earls Court. The trainer Nick is fabulous and very down to earth - he made us all laugh a lot in our 5 days there!

brilliant!

thanks very much for these recommendations

has anyone heard of or used KnowledgeTrain?

thanks again

another bump for the pms only now getting back home...

BK I spoke to our head of PM
She said we use

this lot

and also that you can shop around at the moment and beat them down.

www.spoce.co.uk/prince2/prince2-distance-learning/info-and-prices.aspx

this lot do self-study one
much cheaper

I am thinking of doing this actually

thanks very much to all for these recommendations, much appreciated

Before you sign up for a 5 day course, do your Foundation as distance - it's noddy if you've been working in PM and it's a multiple guess choice exam. For the Practitioner, I would get on a course - my previous company sent me on a 2.5d course with a guy who also used to be a marker for APM. I had flu at the time and so can't remember his name or the company, but I did pass so he must have been good!

good idea