Coincidences, coincidences!......I first saw this post after I'd spent the evening talking about the Smae to a friend who'd enrolled 2 weeks ago for the Access Course to Chiropody, for which she may, or may not, be accepted, because of her disability?....2 years while she gets the equivalent of 'A' levels before (possibly) starting chiropody? Pants! So then I checked out the Smae site to see if it was still as I remembered and, more or less, it is.....btw, I got my MBChA in '80, a year after we returned from Italy....back then one didn't need to spend the 100hrs actually at the Institute, merely 100 hours practice with another MBChA member + a quick breeze-in at Maidenhead....easy-peasy, my M-in-Law was a practitioner & she'd done her training with them years before and was keen for me to take over her practice and paid for my course - all of £60 back then, I recall.. SO...when I saw your post I'd only just read when it was founded and remembered the 'old' site picture. So, why are you doing decorating at pid*ly amounts p/h I wonder? There's money to be made in feet.....I've still got my travelling kit and still do friends' feet....can't do my own now tho - with age my arms seem to have shrunk ::) ;D Can recommend this as a career to anyone. Them blue orthopaedic shoes tho....something else ;) ;D