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Framing Courses - Why Choose Us?

One of the major differences between this course and others is a rather unique one - once you've completed your course you can still continue to learn by being able to telephone or email Mike for advice on any aspect of framing. He's more than happy to give his advice freely and willingly for as many weeks, months and years as you need. No other framing course in the UK offers "unlimited lifetime support" and Mike believes that this service is especially valuable to anyone starting their own business. Indeed, when he started his own business in 1990 Mike himself had no one to turn to for such help and he soon realised just how helpful this would have been.

Mike is currently the only training provider in the UK who's also a qualified adult education teacher. This is something of which he is quite rightly very proud of but more importantly for his students it means that they will be receiving framing tuition not just from an experienced framer but from someone who's also a qualified teacher who understands their educational needs.

His training courses have long been recognised as being of the highest quality and were in fact one of the first in the UK to receive full accreditation from the Fine Art Trade Guild.

Mike will also give impartial advice on what framing equipment you will need to buy, where to source it from and how to get the best possible discounted price from your supplier. For this reason it's a good idea to defer the purchase of your equipment until you've completed your course. If a full workshop is bought this saving alone can often work out more than the cost of your course with us - which would effectively mean that your training would have been free! You will also be given advice on where to get your raw materials along with hints and tips on how to obtain the cheapest prices. As well as the essential workshop skills you will also be taught those "tricks of the trade" that only framers know!

We're ideally located and are well away from the hustle and bustle of the city yet within one mile of both the M4 and M5 motorways. More importantly your training will be undertaken in a quiet semi-rural location, which can only be conducive to good learning. Remember that on this training course you will be receiving one to one intensive tuition unlike other group courses which may appear cheaper at first glance until you realise that there will be nine other people on the course with you.!

For example, two of our competitors charge £150 and £190 per day for their courses but they will each have ten people attending which means that each individual on the course will really only be receiving the equivalent of about 35 minutes of the tutor's time.

Other important aspects of group courses that must be remembered are that firstly, they tend to only proceed at the pace of the slowest learner in the group which is fine if that person is you, but if it isn't then your progress could easily be held back with the end result of you feeling very frustrated. Secondly, group course are renowned for always having at least one person on it who either tries to dominate the tutor's time (therefore craftily getting as much "one to one" tuition that they can!) or by continually asking so many diverse questions that the flow of the course gets disrupted.

If price however, is your only consideration when choosing a course then you'd be better off enroling on an evening class at your local school or by doing one of the many D.I.Y. types that are around at the moment. However please remember that these courses are normally cheaper for a reason. We've all bought a cheap item in the past believing that we'd got ourselves a bargain only to find once we'd got it home that we had in fact bought an item of an inferior quality.

Unfortuntaely picture framing courses are no different so if it's value for money that you're looking for then an intensive one to one course is the only real choice - it may be a little more expensive than a group course but as with most things in life nowadays you "get what you pay for".

Why settle for one of the rest when you can have the best?

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