[Dabhand16]

I think this is a difficult one. Broadly, courses fall into the evening/day class that you can get from schools and colleges, and these can either be formal - City & Guilds, or informal, that is with no qualification at the end. In either one, the tutor can make or break the course. Angela started one, 12 weeks, but gave up on it as it was not very good. So these sort of courses are very much pot luck, so would not be able to be recommended across the board. Our UK membership is spread across the British Isles, so someone who has done a good evening course in, say, Northern Ireland would not know if it was even available in your area. If that course was posted in a forum, someone else looking for one in that area might find it has been discontinued within a very short time.

The courses you see advertised in the mags are, you would hope, be more consistant, albeit more expensive. There could be some merit in a good report on one of these, but I'm not sure if a dedicated forum would be appropriate, even if it were feasible.

Courses can and do change over time, so I think the better bet is if anyone is interested in doing a course is to do as you have done in your other thread and ask if there are any currently available that others have tried, or name a couple to see if others have any comments on them.

This way if you do get any responses they will be up to date.