The course was pretty good in general, until it was time to do work placement and the final portfolio. There was way too much work piled into a 3 week period (doing work placement hours plus the 60 page portfolio plus phonce checkpoints). I completed the checkpoint phone calls with my assesor that went well, until they ceased work with Open Colleges so all that was lost even though I had completed the calls and had been checked off. Still trying to organise all this months after I had completed placement with little to no support from Open Colleges. Finally finished the course and I never received a hard copy of my certificate just an email. Way too much pressure is put on the student during placement and the portfolio and it is like Open Colleges wants the person to fail and keep having to extend the course. Still waiting on the hard copy of my certificate a year later.