ISEP Certificate in Sustainability and Environmental Management Reviews

Overall the course has been extremely disappointing, this has been explained in detail in my feedback for weeks 1 and 2. I also believe that the content from IEMA is massively out of date, examples provided were from 10 years ago and no longer relevant. What has saved things for Astutis is that our week 3 tutor Mike has been exceptional. I really enjoyed the final week due to the way he delivered the course. Clearly he is very experienced and this came across, and he was able to hold the attention of the group and ensured we had adequate breaks and breakout activities. I am still unhappy overall but really glad you found Mike for us for our final week.

Huw talked too much and went off on tangents. David has been the best trainer we have had so far.

This course does not do well on line, it would be much better as an in person course. It was frustrating that so many of the interactive sessions were skipped, but we did more this time than in Week 1. Both tutors displayed a depth of knowledge about the subject matter that was impressive and their style was better. However, Huw did occasionally digress but I liked his examples, he did also have a tendency to talk over people and not let them finish. David was similar but on one occasion he cut me off and refused to let me speak because he assumed I was going to say something incorrect. I found this very rude and it annoyed me to the extent that I left the class. He made no attempt to check in with me following this incident. It must be quite difficult to get the balance right when you have a diverse group like ours, we had a number of people who knew a lot already but there were some of us who knew very little. That made it difficult to ask questions and it could feel quite awkward. This has left a couple of us feeling unsure about certain elements.