How this directory is compiled

Where the records come from

Every listing is a public business record, compiled from Google Maps business listings. One record per Google Place ID: 2,619 listings, 2,619 distinct Place IDs. Nothing is self-submitted, and no provider has been asked for a fee, a link or a logo.

What a record actually holds, and how complete it is across this slice:

• 2,257 carry a public rating (86.2%)
• 2,461 publish a phone number (94.0%)
• 1,599 publish a website (61.1%)
• 2,020 have a photograph (77.1%)
• 2,097 publish opening hours (80.1%)

It is a snapshot, not a live feed. A centre that moved, closed or changed its number last week may still read the old way here.

How providers are ordered

By weight of public record, computed the same way on every page. A rating is weighed against how many people left it, so a single five-star review does not outrank two hundred at 4.7:

rating × log₁₀(reviews + 1), plus a small nudge for having a photograph

That is the whole ranking. There is no editorial thumb, no featured tier, and nothing anyone can buy. Where a provider is ranked within its own town, the listing page says so outright, because it is computed and therefore checkable.

How a provider is filed

From the category tags on its record, not from how it describes itself. A centre running claimable corporate courses sits under corporate training whatever its homepage says.

This has an honest limit. 128 of 2,619 listings (4.9%) carry no education-and-training category at all — their tags put them elsewhere. They stay reachable by state, by town and by name; they just do not appear in a category page. That is a gap in the source tags, and moving it is a taxonomy decision rather than something to paper over here.

When a page exists at all

A page is only built where there is enough on the record to be worth reading. A town needs 12 providers before it gets its own page, a category-and-state page needs 6, and a category-and-town page needs 11.

That leaves 203 browse pages across categories, states and towns. Generating one for every possible combination would be easy and would fill the site with pages holding two listings and no answer. Where a combination falls short, the link goes up a level to where the list is complete rather than to an empty page.

What we never do

• No commission and no referral fee. We are not an agent. Contact details are the ones on the public record — call the provider directly.
• No paid placement. Position is computed, not sold.
• No invented prose about a business. Of 2,619 records, 0 carry any description text at all. With a name, an address, tags and a rating, writing "a leading academy" or "teaching since the 1990s" would be inventing a fact about a real company that can read its own page. So listing pages carry structured signals only: review depth, rank within its own town, opening-hours pattern, breadth across programme types.

Repeated names are not duplicates

42 listings share a name with another. They are not scrape errors — every record on this site has its own Google Place ID, its own address and its own coordinates. They are branches, second offices and relocations, and in a few cases two unrelated centres that happen to share a name.

Deleting either would drop a real business, so instead the page title carries whatever separates them: the town, or the street where the town is not enough.

What we cannot tell you

Whether any particular provider is accredited today. Accreditation is a live status held by the awarding body, it changes, and it is not in these records.

So the guidance on this site is category-level and never about an individual business: which body stands behind that kind of certificate, and what to ask a provider to produce. HRD Corp for claimable corporate training, MQA for a degree programme, JPK for a skills certificate, the state education department for a centre on the national syllabus, DOSH for site safety. Confirm current status with the body itself — every one of them publishes a register.

Corrections and removal

Every listing here is derived from a public Google business record, so the fastest correction is at the source — "Suggest an edit" on the Google listing itself. An accepted edit fixes your details on Google, flows into this directory the next time it is rebuilt from source, and corrects everywhere else working from the same records at the same time.

Removal works the same way. A business taken down at source drops out of this directory on the next rebuild. Nothing here is republished from a private database: if it is not on the public record, it is not on this site.