In August this year, i signed up to a Home Learning College course for what i thought was Internet Web Desing. I arranged with them for my repayments to be monthly starting from the end of September 2010. It took me almost a week after i initially signed my contract to recieve my course materials. After reading the material and having a little look on the website i decided the course wasnt for me. To start with, i was under the impression that if i did this course i would be able to go on to get a job straight away in Internet Web Design after i had recieved my qualification. It wasnt until after looking on their web forum that i learnt that this was not the case and that i would need to do another course (possibly more than one!) in order to do the job i wanted. I contacted the HLC to inform them i was not happy and that my circumstances had changed and that i was no longer able to afford the monthly payments. The advisor i spoke to said that i was out of my 7 day cooling off period and that i couldnt cancel and he advised me to seek financial advice. Stupidly, as i couldnt afford the payment i cancelled my direct debit and i now have the HLC contacting me all the time about money that i am in arrears with. Basically, what i want to know is where i stand with getting out of my contract as i feel they mis-sold me my course and that i am no longer able to afford to pay. The course material has barely even been touched and i have not used the website since i initially contacted them saying that i wanted to cancel, so it isnt as if i have been using their services and not paying. I am quite willing to just send all of the course materials back to them and lose out on my deposit. I just want them to stop hassling me and i dont want to pay for a course that i no longer have interest in doing as it isnt what i thought i was signing up to do! I stupidly allowed my boyfriend to contact them saying that i had lost my job so could no longer continue to pay, but this didnt make any difference. They still said i cant cancel! This whole situation is making me ill! I cant bear the thought of paying £60 a month for the next two years for something i dont even want!!