There are organisations operating in the UK who advertise intensive driving courses, and when a customer expresses an interest, the organisation contacts all the instructors in proximity to the postcode of the customer, and desperately asks them if they can fit in an intensive course at short notice.
This style of distributing the work of intensive courses is problematic when you consider that it is an accelerated learning programme. For pupils to effectively learn quicker without compromising on standards, you have to adapt the provision of the learning environment to facilitate that goal. There are extra resources and skills required to help pupils achieve their goal on an accelerated learning programme. It is not the same service given on pay as you go driving lessons but provided all at once. This would be a big, and costly mistake to make.
These organisations are simply providing uber-style intensive courses with little regard to the quality of training provided.
We would also invite you to consider for a moment which driving instructors would be able and willing to do these kind of courses at such short notice. Any reasonably competent instructor will have a healthy diary of already existing clients. They would not be able to accommodate a course of this type at short notice. As such, it is more likely that the less competent, less experienced, and less established instructors are the ones who would be tempted to accept this type of barbed offer.
The last warning that we would mention relates to tailoring the correct type of training programme to each pupil’s needs. There is a lot of skill in identifying this. Putting pupils on the incorrect type of intensive course is unprofessional as it will inevitably involve the lowering of standards – something that we do not do at BIG TOM.
In essence take care when you are researching the providers of intensive driving courses. We have been providing our high quality driving training for over a decade. Many of these ‘pop up’ organisations are recently formed simply looking to get a quick sale. They trade for a while, earn themselves a very poor reputation, cease trading and then pop up again in a new name.
