Techtorium Reviews

What can I say about Techtorium?

Well,

I am currently 3/4 of the way through my first year there, and I feel as though my time has been wasted. I haven't actually learnt anything in that time - other than how to copy-paste into a word document, and that I fell for their sales pitch.

They make themselves look like an excellent place, with a positive environment, and a high pass rate. Amazing what some pretty photographs and a good media team does aye? This is not the case. The building is horrendous, and the reason the pass rate is so high, is because they give out all the answers, and weeks to submit after the deadlines.

I actually can't think of a positive thing to say about the place. The "student engagement" team, are some of the most unprofessional people I have had to deal with - I made a justified complaint, and somehow it got flipped on me, and they didn't own up to any of the criticisms.

They have a day where you go in just to play games, which is a massive joke if you're not actually interested in playing games - especially because its compulsory, and has an effect on your overall attendance.

Techtorium is a place, where people that struggle with social interaction can come to feel at home. This would be fine, if that's how they presented themselves - they say they're preparing you for work, but I have not seen them educate some of the students who clearly lack in the social skills department.

They have a careers advisor (or whatever they're referred to as), who's job it is to help find students a job in the industry, that took over a week to respond to a friends request about finding a job. When he eventually responded, he was told that there may be some roles available at a certain business. That was the end of that.

Good news - I found a positive - its free, and that's the most it should ever cost anyone. But you will not get your year/years back, and that's a huge price to pay in my opinion.

Do not go here - and if you do, take them up on their 10 day trial thing. I wish I pulled out sooner. Just going to finish it now :^)

I started here around May/June of 2013.
I completed the Level 5 Diploma

while the course was good mostly, I learnt plenty only annoying thing was when papers were supposed to be open book and suddenly changed to being closed book. Did also make some new friends which was nice.
After my course finished, I was handed over to Mike who did have a few contacts in the industry to get me some work experience I ruined that at the time (I never ended up doing it) and I regret that, I was having a few mental health issues back then. I have recently reached out to Techtorium about getting something going again and emails/phone calls haven't been returned. I haven't been offered any help and my past contact (Mike) no longer works at Techtorium so I feel as though I've been let down a bit really it seems once you've paid for the course they don't want to know you after you've graduated, even a courtesy email/phone call to see how I was doing after graduation would have been nice, I see they do make a big song and dance about past students getting into work on Facebook/Linkedin It makes me wonder if they had any support My friend got a job at skinny though techtorium so it seems some get support and others don t. All I really wanted was some help getting a job or some work experience which a past student told me they do this. On a side note, I have been thinking a reunion could be good thing perhaps?!

I would Strongly recommend Techtorium for Anyone who is looking for their Career in IT, After me being an international student i thought there would be huge change in method of teaching but the faculty made it way easier and better understanding but most importantly they look after student good :)

I was picked on by a trainer. I was called lazy and heard him call me an "elephant in the room" to another student for literally no reason. It made me feel less comfortable being in class.

The place is all for show. That's really to sum up this entire school. Everything looks all nice and pretty, seems like a good school with great stats when you go there. But it's all fake. Their furniture is not practical and makes it difficult to learn there. As a collective group all the students wanted back walls as sound barriers as it made it difficult to work while other classes were in the same room. But they refused as an open room space looks better to people who come in. They care not for their student, they ask for feedback and do nothing with it. The organization is a complete joke, theres nothing like not being able to be in a room because they jammed so many people that you overheat from pure body heat.

The female workers in the admin teams may be into being into equality but the casual sexsim was a common occurrence which made trying to learn in a male dominated environment very difficult. When I'm in a classroom the trainer shouldn't be saying 'watch out she talking about children, run'. The trainer shouldn't be getting into debates with their students because 'only women can see magenta, men see pink.' Not only to say this directly to someone but to say it to the entire class, it's shameful. There are some staff there that are nice, that try, that actually bond with their student, shame my experience wasn't with those trainers for majority of the time.

This place, they have no respect for the students, one of my classmates had their own laptop broken by a member of staff because the staff member refused to listen how to handle the laptop. Data was limited for students to slower than ADSL rates, at a place where at times you need to download large files.

The course was a complete joke as they would rush you in internals and not fully teach you with proper practice prehand and then for two weeks you would do nothing. They love treating you like your a children, I was treated better in high school. This place made me miss high school. Some of the trainers shouldn't be training, they calls them trainers so they don't actually have to get people that know how to teach. It really is a classroom environment so the whole 'this is a modern learning environment' excuse they constant pluck out really doesn't apply. They call it 'coursework' it's really just homework which sometimes is maybe three times harder than the actual in class work. They call it student lead learning, thats all for show. They care more about their image of the 'school' more than the student. When NZQA review them, the find out whos the teacher pet and who will send raving reviews and they send those people to vouch for the school. We literally had meetings so they could find out who liked the school. Funny how the 'randomly selected student' all loved and raved about the school.

'We are working to make this better', yeah right. Heard that one a million times, shame over the two year period I was here I never saw proper improvements. Only things that got worse. Think the best thing that ever happened was that they supplied hygiene products in the bathrooms. Maybe when the vending machine got replaced. Any benefits of this place was always outweighed by the negatives.

This place has such a high pass rate because they literally hand out their diplomas. When it came to our capstone project your grade would be done based a lot of your team members review, I overheard our trainer asking one of the members to change their review so that member could pass. Student who did no work and anywhere else would have failed the course, could barely even code, barely even turn on a computer managed to pass this course. It's a joke. I would know, I passed top 10 in the class. Once upon of time I has a huge passion for coding, to learn. This 'educational provider' sucked all my joy for coding away to the point where I hate it. Techtorium is hands down the biggest regret I have ever made. I wish I had applied for Media Design School to learn coding instead.

There's so much more than I haven't mentioned that I wish I could.

Don't go there.

Me and my (now) husband went here, be both have awesome jobs now in the IT Industry and have great careers to look forward to.

Techtorium is an amazing school and I can say that if you send your students to Techtorium that that are interested in information technology, it will be there best choose. IF I got to describe Techtorium I will describe as my second home . The staff at Techtorium are very Professional and the class work and the knowledge you learn at Techtorium are way better then high ICT class

A great learning environment to learn everything technology