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Sports Nutrition
Around three months ago i signed up to the Nutrition course. After a couple of weeks i clicked on another module and it charged me the £49.99.
After another couple of weeks i was charged again, so i contacted them by E mail.
After a couple of days i was contacted by someone who explained that it was me that was using the system wrong and they would not refund me the money. However what they would do was to give me a years subscription to do any course that i wish. I started on the sports nutrition course, however when i completed module 1 i have been locked out of the rest of the course.
Complete sham after offering you something with one hand and taking it away with the other. JOKE.3 months + 3 months unwillingly
This company delivers high-quality intro content on many topics.
Unfortunately, they collect money from their students in many dodgy ways. They offer 1-month trials after which they would still charge their students, even if the accounts have been canceled.
Instant buy buttons are another scam. If you press it by an accident you will loose £40 in a blink of an eye.
If you try to cancel the subscription you can only do it Monday to Friday 9-5pm. Even then, you will have to call some phone number and will have to enter your students' unique code that, surprise, is not recognized. There are many reported cases of Shaw academy taking money from their students' bank accounts even if the direct debit has been canceled weeks ago.
Avoid being scammed by them. There are plenty of honest educational websites that will offer you quality online courses for free or for the money you are paid without taking unauthorized payments from your bank account.3 month subscription
Negative - I highly recommend you do NOT sign up with this company. Notice how their reviews are turned off? They have taken money from my account without any contact after 6 months claiming that my account was not cancelled in time - £100 just vanished from my account. However the reason the cancellation was late was because their system makes it incredibly difficult, nigh on impossible to cancel. My student ID would not access the cancellation area. Having tried for days last august I finally sent a message to customer services, explained the problem and they assured me - and I have the email as proof - that it was cancelled and no further monies were owed. Fast forward to Feb 2021 - mid pandemic - and the aforementioned £100 is taken. Then I am receiving calls from call centre operatives all over the world who don't care and who's job is to placate me. What a shame as the learning content was actually quite good. And if you already signed up - I recommend phoning your bank for a new card because that is how they get you - through a world pay type set up.
Photography Course
Totally unreliable and terrible customer service. I am furious that they took £69.99 AFTER I cancelled my membership. I have 240 emails from them since April asking me to come back. They SPAM your inbox. Dreadful. DO NOT TRUST. I called my bank and they said that they get complaints about Shaw Academy all the time.
Course package
It is a scam and a very poor service!
Art course
This is a scam. I was scammed out of £49.99 for course materials which I didn’t buy. There are thousands of similar complaints. Do not sign up to this company, they are under investigation and rightly so. I can’t give zero stars on this site, only two minimum for some reason?
Digital Marketing
Good. Too many messages though.
Web development course
Really flexible learning with lots of info and extras.
Premium member
I find Shaw Academy very interesting site for learning... Though still in my first module, but so far so good. Only that the ads are interupting when ever I log in, and the cost for a module is high, yet I can't access the toolkit for that module... I suggest that toolkit should be free for those that subscribe for s particular module.. secondly cost of cert should be reduced.
The web development class is really nice but I happen to notice that the classes are not of recent. They've been recorded 3 years prior to when I'm watching it now. Three years is a long time and a lot could have change in the course concerning updates needed to run a very good web development. So I wish you guys would make a recent videos or give us updates to certain changes. Thanks.
Premium membership
I find and my Shaw Academy experience with Shaws a good study tool, but can be very temperamental in working smoothly. Either logging into particular parts of your Lessons or Resources within your account. The couple of different subjects I have taken are majority of the time well explained and when you access the full Toolkit it gives you access to Slide and Lesson Notes and Recording.
There is alot of advertising on screen for pop up for Toolkit and extending your membership subscription. Which can be annoying to keep closing.
But with the teething problems and knowing what Browser works and doesn't work. I find Firefox the best, works most of the time, except when my computer or connection doesn't play up.
But in fairness to the Support staff they do help and reply to your queries, if not sometime pasted answer of same thing. But if you have the time and patience for any problems. The classes are informative and give you a good groundwork to practice and work on outside the Lesson times. You need to do the Quiz and Assignments to continue through the Modules of course, so you are up to standard and know the content.
But I would find it good if not a bit materialistic from a financial way needing to pay for items in sections for Toolkit and Exams and Certs etc. The pop ups on screen all the time.
But I plan to continue and will be doing further courses with them, when my time and finances allow.
Happy Studying to All! Best Wishes!Graphic designing
One of the best online Academy especially in current situation , the graphic designing course provides you with in depth knowledge and also provides extra free trail for Adobe Photoshop which is really very helpful
Not yet
I found your services very interesting. I enjoined your free online lesson. The Tutor is a very good Tutor, he explains things explicitly with relevant examples. Keep it up
Please, I made a mistake on the earlier submission. *I would buy here again*
web design course
Just attended my first lesson in web design. I followed it pretty well because I have some experience in HTML, but if someone didn't, I think they would be seriously confused and frustrated. It moved too quickly without enough explanation, but maybe that was the point for the first lesson. It's hard to see how this format will work for future lessons where pausing the lesson (something you can't do on first viewing) will be essential to completing tasks. But maybe that's been figured out and it'll be awesome. I'm pleased enough with the learning to keep doing it.
4-week graphic design course & tool kit
I’m very happy with the lesson plans as they are very informative & easy to follow. I’m not so pleased with the ordering process as there were no confirmation steps to buying the tool kit. I’m thinking a button would lead me to more information & then to a confirmation purchase page it instead immediately took money out of my account.
Excellent Online studies academy , Graphic designing course gives in-depth knowledge about the course and with amazing partnership with Adobe they provide extra free trials to practice
Excel
I feel great starting this class. It's awesome and I look forward to a more interesting and fulfilled experience.
Project management
Excellent educator plus I can go back and review what I missed in the lesson.
WEB-DEVELOPMENT
Very good
Sports nutrition
I can't seem to pause or rewind the lessons which is very frustrating and the instructor is covering a lot of material in short time, it's a bit overwhelming
3 MONTH DIPLOMA IN PHOTOSHOP
My first week experience with Shaw Academy is astonishingly awesome and surprisingly productive. The lessons are designed to fully equipped the students with the necessary skills to prepare for his/her future bright and lucrative future. Indeed, Shaw
academy is a trustworthy institution. It provides best online education at a very generously minimal cost.writing-20
I'm very excited to finally begin a course in creative writing. After the introductory lesson, I am even more excited at the prospect of improving my writing capabilities in the fields that I know I definitely don't shine in. So far, this has been an altogether pleasant experience, very easy to understand and follow, and I can agree with the material covered already as it coaligns with lessons that were drummed into my head in school, both inside and outside the regular curriculum. I look forward to the next lesson, and am sure that Shaw Academy will continue to deliver to the best of their abilities.
Review with most votes
Changed my life
Just to check ,how it works I started free trial course. I found it very helpful and then extended in Modules. Once I completed and returned back to Banglore India ,again kept... Read onBy: Rajender Kumar Saini