IBB Institut für Berufliche Bildung AG

I am currently sitting in a retraining program to become an IT specialist for application development. I was promised everything in advance, only for me to sign the contract. Now that I have completed the training for a few months, I can only advise against taking this path with IBB.

The classes are held in an eLearning center that constantly has technical problems. There you find yourself again with many different other retrainees with many different levels of knowledge. There is no pre-selection of participants. People with several years of programming experience sit together with people to whom you still have to explain the keyboard.

The lecturers then usually hold a 90 minute lecture, where you have to be lucky to get up-to-date knowledge. Sometimes, individual lecturers also slide into the queer-thinker area, and tell in IT lessons how dangerous vaccination is and how evil the state is.

The class times themselves are far too few and very poorly organized. The timetable for a week is given to you on the Friday before at the earliest. This usually has serious gaps and sometimes you sit 5 hours at the site without employment or contact person. Complaints about this are simply ignored by the site management and the overall management.

The equipment in the workplace is inadequate. Chairs fall apart, laptops are sometimes several years old and you only get limited access to the equipment. Another tiny monitor is provided, but a second one, as is usual for programming, is denied.

Corona protection measures do not exist at all. Sometimes up to a dozen students of various disciplines are crammed into small rooms, with the instruction to ventilate only very rarely in order to save energy. In the last three weeks alone (as of 11/22/2022), there have been three corona cases here at the site with no consequences. Home office is completely refused, although this is offered on the IBB website as a teaser.

There are no uniform regulations on this. While some locations do offer home office, at other locations the participants are not allowed to leave the premises.

All in all, IBB tries to get a signature under its contract by any means and then drops the participants. One is kept here, there is no individual support and also promised certificates can either not be acquired at all or only against further monetary payment.

It is better to look for another provider.

I can only explain the poor quality in all areas by the fact that IBB is unfortunately the only provider where job seekers are allowed to take certain training courses.

I took the exam preparation course for the Fachwirt für Büro- & Projektorganisation at IBB. Except for one lecturer, the rest of the lecturers were subterranean. Slides were simply read off, during the knowledge mediation time one was occupied with exercise task which one could have made also without lecturers, as discussion of the tasks then simply the solution suggestion of the IHK was read out, a lecturer could give on further inquiries in the range ReWe no information and meant only "Well, if you do not have the task in the examination you exist with the remainder nevertheless", etc etc....
The list could go on and on. The worst thing is that IBB does not react to feedback (from several students)! You are fobbed off with the fact that you have to learn the material yourself. I don't need an exam preparation course for that.

Whoever can, should really look for another provider where he/she does an exam preparation course. I have rarely experienced something so bad, cheeky and brazen.

Absolute disaster!
The good ratings must be bought. No one in our class is satisfied. Lecturers are unqualified, sexist and disinterested. I would never choose this institute again. Biggest mistake of my life. Please find another institute. Even the IHK laughs at this company. You just feel ashamed to be a student here. I have to teach myself everything, otherwise I'm completely lost. Lying is the order of the day here. It's sad that there are not even any checks here. Several violations of data protection in a short time. Simply bad.

Good institute. We have some of our customers have recommended here.

I am a retrainee for 3 months. The learning platform regularly has problems: Classmates get kicked out, sometimes the system goes down for hours. In addition, there are Internet outages at various locations.

In class, you have to deal almost exclusively with trainers who are not trained in didactics, who seem listless, reel off the program and are overwhelmed with questions. Some trainers don't even bother to upload a photo of themselves.

On top of that, one trainer rambles on about 5-conspiracies. Another one advertises his own learning platform, on which one is first told that gender is the devil's work, etc., etc.

On the part of the IBB also no halfway reliable training plan can be published, only a framework plan, from which however constantly one deviates, without this on the part of the IBB that is communicated at least. Communication seems to be difficult anyway.

On the positive side, you have a relatively large amount of training time (practical units) in which you can simply follow your own curriculum. IBB also provides enough textbooks and access to the LinkedIn training platform for this purpose.

There are also really nice, helpful people at my location.

I would still recommend other training providers (GFN, WBS).