I am in the IT NSS program currently, and the only reason I'm remaining in the school at all is that I have two months left before a work placement that I created myself, and consider having the diploma to be expensive insurance and little else at this point. I had a meeting with the campus director about this, and he asked me to send him a list of the negative experiences I'd had in my six months at the school. I stopped at three pages because I didn't feel like continuing. I had several other students sign off on it, because this class is not full of smiling people. Every other thing that the school does, decides, or hands out to you is broken, disorganized, or outright incorrect. When I say that the over TriOS staff puts in bare minimum effort, I completely mean it. My teacher George was knowledgeable, and the computers were fine, but most of the materials were incomplete, ridden with mistakes, unchecked before being presented to us, or totally broken. George has been absent from class due to illness for almost 1/6 days at this point, and Eastern College does nothing to fix the value proposition of this. At the end of the day, Eastern College takes your money and gives very little in return. In fact, if they withhold value, they're not willing to do anything to replace it. Teacher missing for 1/6 months? Tough luck.
Every other thing that EC does has mistakes or no effort put into it:
- Downloading a 14 year old exam, not editing it, and presenting it as an assignment even though it's using a program we were told to never use and includes instructions that are, literally speaking, not possible.
- Our phone numbers were taken "only for emergencies". They immediately began to send us spam links for surveys and contests, and began to call our cellphones when we were absent. I'll repeat that: if you were absent, they called your cellphone and asked where you were. My answer was usually "You're not providing me with any instruction today (again, instructor only present for 5/6 months) and I have actual work to do".
- While I was temporarily in two other classes, the rest of my class was finishing up the A+ section and doing an exam for it. Almost everyone dramatically failed that exam, to the point that it would have failed almost the entire class. So he just bumped up the participation score to not fail most of the students.
- Enforced "assemblies" you have to go to, or be marked absent, even on an exam day.
- Your Windows 10 book will have command-line information in it. Almost all of them have the incorrect syntax and don't work at all. Meaning no one edited any of them. This is incredibly common throughout the materials you'll receive. We also received a "cheat sheet" because of this problem - which was unchecked by anyone and also full of mistakes. I had to correct a fair portion of it before deciding it really wasn't my responsibility to fix the courseware. Expect this problem to be consistently present throughout your education here.
- Our Mobile and Cisco classes were so lazily put-together, with no materials or tools checked prior to class, so it was only two days before the exam that most of the class found out we were using the incorrect simulators. There were five, but only one was usable, and the instructor is adverse to giving out this information to the class. You have to ask and ask for assistance and maybe you'll get information, maybe you won't.
I can go on and on. I'd just paste my email if I had the space. Eastern College is here for Eastern College, not for it's students. My average is currently 96% and I can tell you with certainty that if you come here, you're not getting the value out of your money. read more
