Just received a nice friendly text from Barclays. Your Barclays Partner Finance account is now 2 months overdue.Your credit rating is now affected. Please call us to discuss options. removed

I will scan the careers pack tomorrow and upload it here so everyone can check it out.

Did anyone here pass the A+ with Advent and then receive a careers pack from them? I just found out mine and it says that they provided student days as part of their careers service which im guessing is something else that Computeach dont provide! There are lots of ways the Advent Careers team can help you find a job in I.T: Advice on where to look for jobs Help in putting together a professional CV Advice on filling in a application forms Tips for interviews. Advice on negotiating your salary package Student days around the country. Student Days give you the chance to: Meet your careers' advisor. Discuss your job search in more detail. Find out more about any jobs we have available. Ask questions about salaries, relocations etc. For more information on student days in your area, call 01562 881677 and speak to one of our Advent Careers team.

I just remember that i backed out of signing up for the course due to how high the monthly payments would have been, but then they came back to me with an offer to hold back £1000 for 2 years, which seems like a good thing at the time so i signed up. Interest of 29%?? that's just insane

I've Just scanned all the paperwork I received from Advent and attached it to this post,they are quite good quality and hopefully someone will find them useful. Advent_Barclays documents.zip

I've just opened a letter from barclays partner finance telling me that the hold on my loan account has been removed, and that my next loan installment will be due on the 10th May. I really don't want to have to pay this but feel ill have no choice unless i want my credit file ruined.

Does anyone have a template letter i could send to Barclays saying im not happy with their replacement training provider and would like to be refunded? I would like to complain to the Financial Ombudsman but odviously would need to send some kind of complaint to Barclays before i do that but im not sure what to put in the letter. Thanks to everyone keeping this thread alive.

Recieved this e-mail last night. 8th April 2010 Dear , Thank you for taking the time to verify your contact details. These have now been transferred to our student records system in readiness for the start of your training with us. During the contact detail verification process you may have requested contact from us regarding your contract start and end date. We are in the process of contacting all students who raised questions about their contract dates. Please do bear with us. We will be in touch with you by email on this subject in the next day or so. In the meantime, the next step of the process is to verify the course and current module details that we have for you. Please follow this link to verify your course details: Student Verification Alternativily, you can visit http://verify.computeach.co.uk and login using the following details: Your User ID: Your Password: You will then be presented with a screen that contains the last details recorded on the Advent system. These will be your course number and name, a description of the content of the course and then the module that you are currently studying. This information was taken from the Advent computer systems at the time that the company went into administration. If you believe that any of it is incorrect then you can tell us by removing the ticks next to the relevant piece of information. You still need to click on the verification button even if you have indicated that some or all of the information is incorrect. If any of your details are incorrect then we will contact you over the next week or so to discuss what you believe you should be studying or where you believe you currently are. If you have continued to study during the last 2 months and you have completed any exams during this time then please be prepared to provide score reports or transcript access codes for us to verify your exam pass and move you on to the next module. If your details are correct then within 2 working days we will send you a welcome email with login instructions for our student web site and within a further 2 working days, you will be able to access your new online eLearning to support the module you’re currently studying. We are still awaiting archive paper files and access to all of the archived email communications that you may have had previously with Advent. If you have indicated that there are issues with either your contract dates or the details of your course then we will be in touch as soon as we can to discuss this with you. We would ask for your continued patience during the remainder of the integration project. I’m sure you can appreciate that you may be one of a large number of people who want to talk to us about your training contract and we will do our best to get to you as quickly as we can. We are very keen to get you up and running as soon as possible so we would encourage you to verify your course details (correct or incorrect) as soon as you can so that we can get you started. Yours sincerely, Computeach International Limited

Just had a email from ct about my dispute about how i thought i had as much time as i wanted to complete the course. Good Morning Daniel Thank you for verifying your contact details. During this process you indicated that you did not agree with the contract dates that we detailed for you. In order to resolve this issue, please can you let us know what contract start and end date you believe we should be working to. It should be noted that some Advent students have been led to believe that there is no contract end date for Advent training courses. Having reviewed the Advent terms and conditions we would draw your attention to Clause 4 which outlines the fact that the services will be provided to you throughout the “Term” of your contract. The terms and conditions contain definitions of the “Term” and the “Contract Period”. The contract end date that we provided to you during the details verification process is the one that was recorded against your account by Advent. If you have documented evidence to support your claim that your contract end date was different or that there wasn’t one then please do send it to us and we will be happy to review it. In the absence of documented evidence to support a claim of a different contract end date I’m afraid that we will not be able to support you free of charge beyond the contract end date that we have already stipulated. Kind regards | Customer care |

I have just contacted Computeach on 08009885970 and was told that they're still waiting on student files so can't tell me much information about the replacement training at the moment. The assistant told me that whatever was in my original contact would be carried over to Computeach and that this would include free retakes etc (Im guessing this is a lie!?!). I was studying the MCSE with Advent and my contract was supposed to end in July so Barclays have decided to be generous and offer me 3 months extension even though i spent most of the course time trying to get Advent to even arrange for me to attend workshops. As with everyone else im sick and ****ed off with this and just want a refund and therefore willing to do whatever it takes.

A BIG GLOBAL CLAIMANTS FIRM HAS OFFERED TO REPRESENT EX-ADVENT, ACCESS2TRADE and PROPERTY PROFESSIONALS STUDENTS ON A NO WIN-NO FEE BASIS AGAINST BARCLAYS PARTNER FINANCE. The representative action will cover BPF clients with different circumstances such as those in arrears on their loans and now paying charges, those still paying back loans by direct debit, those fully paid off, AND those who have frozen accounts now but are still part way through their repayments.