“What went wrong? Where do I start. The lack of communication and professionalism from management and instructors is mind blowing. Takes days sometimes weeks for a response from anyone.
They like to fire the instructors who stand up for themselves and students.
I went through 4 instructors in less then 5 months.
They hire the most useless incompatent instructors.
You pay for class time to cover material but spend 75% of it in a breakout room to learn the material on your own.
The courses and assignments are outdated. Online certificates are American bases and not all of them are Canadian recognized (first aid and CPR)
You will not have the support from management.
Do yourself a favor and save your money.
When I was enrolled I was asked why I think students are dropping out. They didn't like what i had to say and all my Comments were deleted.
I will continue to speak up and make sure students don't get taken advantage of like I was.
I am stuck with student loans and a certificate from a College that has to be one of the worst schools.
Run don't walk. Don't even give them the satisfaction of even considering this school.”
“At best, an introduction course. Their 'Willis Way' is jerking you back and forth from topic to topic, giving you no time to absorb the content before changing direction. Pretty useless and a waste of money in any of their technical courses.”
“If you wonder if this is a good school to learn, this is not. They are here to make money out of you. The teaching is lacking and nothing is up-to-date. The standard of any industries is not respected, and the school is in a basement of a mall. Have fun without any window for your whole tuition. The cybersecurity program is lacking the most. You would learn more in any other IT course (I would recommend any public school developer course). For most, I would HIGHLY recommend a public school over this.”
“The program for CAF Members is a joke. They have high teacher turnover because no one that’s decent wants to work there. Have terrible policies on remotely completing your work when it’s been done during Covid. And it’s just another poor military contract that would have been so much better done privately.”
“They want me to pay 8000$ after i finished my school. I paid all my program cost. When i ask for my diploma .they asked me for 8000$ for the diploma.”
“The school misleads their Cyber Security students. The college used to deliver quality education for CSAs however the content is out of date, and they have gone from a high quality model to a cookie cutter factory model. Where they push students through for a numbers game rather than a quality game. There is no reason to be teaching old skills and technology in a modern digital environment. Basically nothing you learn will be applicable today. Material is also filled with spelling mistakes, incorrect information, and tests have wrong answers. Basically until they fix their curriculum--avoid at all costs.
In addition, they don't provide learning materials that you pay for.”
“This "College" takes advantage of individuals in tough situations and charges 15,000$ for tuition. After you get your "diploma" you will quickly realize little work places recognize Willis as a college, no other college or university will accept this transcript. Your starting salary will be barely enough to make ends meet or to pay back the money owed for the course.
ABSOLUTELY DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY THIS COLLEGE IS A SCAM”
“Why is Willis College not recognize by govt entities?
I mixed feelings, so i can give any ratings at the moment. I only ticked cos i wont be able to submit this request without ticking a star rating. Doesn't really reflect my feelings”
“School was suppose to provide hard copy books as agreed, Covid-19 came and they resulted to e-books. saying publisher is not publishing books anymore, how is that suppose to be the students business? you ought to sought that out and when students asked their response wasn't pleasant. The school is just about your money”
“Not impressed with their admissions process. In the midst of it, after having an initial phone conversation and being asked for my credentials, they responded to me 3 days later ( Actually there was evidence that they try to call me at the two day mark) that the government funded PSW course (July start date) is full and I could be put on a waitlist. In my experience most institutions have a cut off date that affords them time to go through the applications before they turn around and turn people away and put them on wait lists. I was informed on my phone call that they had an overwhelmingly large response specifically because the government was paying for the program and I knew there was urgency for getting my credentials in because of this but at no point was I told that there was a specific cut off dates I was totally the under the impression that the next steps as alluded twice to in the phone call was I would be scrutinized by Chantel. In fact I was encouraged by the response on the phone. I had responded about submitting my credentials. Not professional not organized not impressed. My belief is that I was actually discriminated against by the information that I gave even before my official interview . Fortunately Ottawa offers other options for the PSW program. After reading another review about the slip ups in administration I have to agree that something’s amiss with administration”
“I regret that I took Cyber Security Analyst Program at Willis College. The program seems to be poorly organized. It is insanely intense; however, the stuff I am studying right now is not hard. There are just so many assignments that there is no time to study. I have been submitting these assignments without realizing what I am doing. I do not feel I have learned anything so far. I can try to get the assignments done from sunrise to sunset, or I could learn something real for the same amount of time and less amount of stress. I do not even gain any skills this way. There is also a lot of unnecessary stress that comes as a bonus to this program. Besides, this program costs way too much for what they actually give. Great dissatisfaction!”
“There was no sense of leadership or communication between class and Willis. I felt rather uncertain who did what at the Arnprior campus. Too expensive for what we received in education.”