Four courses, sixteen to a room
Contact hours published against each, taught by people who do the work in the daytime, and a certificate that says you attended rather than implying somebody accredited it.
Data analysis for managers
Forty-eight contact hours over twelve weeks. Spreadsheets and SQL, taught against your own organisation’s data where you can bring it. No machine learning, deliberately — twelve weeks is not enough and a course that says it is, is selling something.
Financial literacy for founders
Thirty contact hours over ten weeks. Reading a P&L, cash-flow modelling and what a term sheet actually commits you to. Taught by a practising chartered accountant, on Saturdays.
Technical writing
Thirty-six contact hours over nine weeks, with every session workshopped on your own drafts. The smallest cohort we run — twelve — because marking twelve pieces of writing a week is the limit of what one tutor can do properly.
Operations and process design
Forty contact hours over ten weeks, evenings. Mapping, measurement and the arithmetic of queues. The course people arrive at expecting software and leave having drawn on paper for ten weeks.
What we publish, and what we do not
Four figures a timetable settles. There is no placement rate here and there will not be one — see the questions below.
How a cohort runs
Four things, and the third is why people finish rather than drift.
A conversation before you pay
Fifteen minutes about what you want out of it. Roughly one in six is told a different course — or none of ours — which is a conversation that costs us the fee and saves them twelve weeks.
Fixed timetable, published in advance
Every session dated before enrolment opens. Nothing is moved once the cohort starts, because a rescheduled evening class is an evening class half the room misses.
Work between sessions, marked
Two to three hours a week, returned with written comments before the next session. This is the whole difference between a course and a series of talks, and it is why cohorts are small.
A certificate that says what it is
It records the course, the contact hours and your attendance. It does not say "certified" and no body accredits it, which we would rather state plainly than let a design imply.
Who teaches
Four people, all of whom do the work in the daytime. Nobody here teaches full time, which is the point.
Faisal Qureshi
Runs operations for a logistics firm. Has taught this course for seven years and rewrites about a third of it every year.
Aparna Reddy
Analyst in a hospital group. Teaches against real data because a tidy dataset teaches nothing about the two weeks you spend cleaning one.
Zoya Mirza
Practising chartered accountant. Saturdays only, and has never once agreed to move a session.
Rohit Kamath
Documentation lead at a software firm. Marks twelve drafts a week himself, which is the reason that cohort is twelve.
Asked before enrolling
Four answers, and the first costs us enrolments every intake.
Will this get me a job?
We do not know, and any provider that answers this with a percentage is quoting a number nobody audits. What we can tell you is the contact hours, the cohort size, who teaches and what the work between sessions is. Those are the things that actually differ between courses.
Is the certificate accredited?
No. It records the course, the hours and your attendance, and it is signed by the tutor. If you need an accredited qualification, a short evening course is the wrong instrument and we will say which institutions offer the right one.
Can I catch up if I miss a session?
One session, yes — the tutor will spend twenty minutes with you before the next. Two and you are better off deferring to the following cohort, which costs nothing and is not treated as a withdrawal.
Do you record the sessions?
No, and that is deliberate. A recorded cohort becomes a cohort half the room stops attending, and the value of a room of sixteen is the sixteen. Notes and slides go out afterwards.
Book the fifteen minutes
Before you pay for anything. Pick a slot and we will telephone — if a different course suits you better, or none of ours does, that is what the call is for.