Skills4Stem Ltd. Reviews 315

Great company, guided me through 2 years of my apprenticeship. Co-ordination team is top. Jadie was always available for any questions or concerns and is a really nice person in general.

Would recommend.

Absolute disaster avoid ! The delivery of “learning” is terrible. Roll on roll off means you can join and be very new in the career but be required to start units that require a fair bit of experience. Recipe for failure. Units roll all year with no breaks. Teaching is remote, endless talking at you for hours. Clearly do not understand the concept of concentration for typical student. I could give numerous examples of bad practice.

I did an online HNC course with Skills4Stem and the course was delivered well by the tutors. The way the course is structured means the students are required to allocate their own time to in order to complete the assignments.
I can see this would not suit some students but for me it worked perfectly with my employer and i was pleased to complete the course.

The course was a good experience with good support from Martica Damon and Paul Montogemery. However, the course was delayed several months due to the NVQ process not being done correctly, so the EPA process took a long time to enter. Another note, when I had course sessions on bank holidays there were no rearrangements which led to some more delays. Support system is great, organisation and time management need some work. Overall, I'm happy with the process, just not with how long it took.

Very smooth process and transition to begin my HNC in Building Services, staff communication as been very good and my programme support officer, Jadie, has been excellent throughout.

Overall Very Helpful. Coming to a close on my Lvl 4 Quantity surveying course,
Marticia is always there and supportive answering any questions that i had with reassurance given if i struggled with my assigments etc.

Completed a HNC in construction things went smoothly all year with friendly staff hassle free learning

After just finishing my HNC, I can say that my experience with Skills4Stem was an overall positive one, with particularly helpful and supportive tutors and support officers like Martica Damon and Paul Montgomery who went out of their way to assist in delivering my course.

Hi Jordan

You have not provided us with a VAT invoice for this, why is that?

Once you do provide a valid VAT invoice for this we can pass this on to our solicitors with a view to suing you for the lack of delivery of the course. I have emails from Ben Davidson, the main one attached where you admit that you were unable to complete our apprentice’s apprenticeship due to not being able to attract any 3rd party company to provide the EPA. He offered a quite dubious and hurried arrangement (my wife works for Nottingham College), of you convincing the government to provide an in house EPA but in a very short timescale. My wife was somewhat amazed at this, for the course level you were offering! This didn’t work for Arthur as he was on leave that week. I’m sure you have recorded the google meeting? Please forward that to us so I pass this on to our solicitor. Had Aurthur been available for then hurried, last minute EPA, he would have attended. Disillusioned with the course he was on he resigned from his role

Would like to thank Chris Smith for his help and responsiveness. From past experiences with S4S I think he has been very good and I believe with him on board it could bring happy candidates and a hassle free experience when undergoing a qualification with S4S.

A true credit, once again thank you for your help👍🏽

Very easy services, used for several years, issues and problems dealt with professional and quickly, recommend for all bsuiness types.

The lack of services is:

Don't respond to my emails until I contact the MD.

Not responded to all my queries.

Keep emailing wrong Teams meeting links that each week does not work.

No block or 'week before a session' meeting invites on Teams as I don't know when the next college sessions are. At work vat 8am and only, by chance, check my emails to find out I've got an eCollege session on the day - I have to brush home. Happens frequently.

Service is the worst I've come across- I had 2 apprenticeship colleges in the past, and they were so much better.

Reported to the government's Apprenticeships Service department. 

I had an Online 1-2-1 session with Paul Montgomery on improving my Revit (BIM) skills to complete my Unit 6 assignment. Paul showed me that I needed to keep things simple and do things in 'Baby Steps'. I realised that I did not need to be an expert to pass the assignment. I need to make sure that I meet all the criteria to pass the Unit. Paul was very helpful as I am neurodivergent (dyslexic). I need to keep things simple so that I remember what to do if I use Revit again (for Unit 1) on the HNC (Distance Learning).

Hi Its hard to get hold of tutor and I need to clarify the questions in the assignments. Also the Questions in the assignment are not always clear willing to share screenshots. Willing to upload a screenshot to prove my point

I spoke to Mario today in an interview. He was very informative and made sure I knew everything i needed to know about the course. He was very friendly and nice to talk to.

Skills4Stem is one of the worst learning experiences I have ever dealt with. There has been less than adequate help provided for assignments and the teaching is an absolute waste of time (reading a document is not teaching, anyone can read a document) I won't even go into how many times my timetable has changed, whilst having no sessions;
The customer services team are rude and unhelpful;
I would go as far to say Skills4Stem are setting students up for failure;
I would not recommend this course to anyone based of my experience.

Mario was very Helpful in explaining everything whilst also making me feel calm throughout the interview.

Mario was excellent throughout the induction process, he explained everything well and kept it engaging.

The service provided by this individual has so far been brilliant. He is very informative and gives help whenever its needed. Past sessions i've had with him has been a delight he's a very polite, friendly and enganging person.