The course days take place somewhere in Baarn (province of Utrecht, the Netherlands). The idea is that all participants are actually physically present during the course days (and those are 2 days a week - Monday and Tuesday). Where the student is in the other 3 days is up to the agency and the student: Maybe at the office, maybe at home - it's freely fillable.

The concept of the academy is that there are 2 teaching days a week, but that the other 3 days are filled with self-study. The study load is therefore in principle 5 days. Whether those full 5 days are necessary depends on the existing knowledge of the participant.

A participant is expected to be familiar with IT in general (computer hardware, networking, browser tools, HTML, CSS, basic JavaScript, basic PHP). In week 1 and week 2, that required basis is expanded with teaching material about PHP Advanced and JavaScript Advanced. If a participant already has knowledge of JavaScript and PHP, it can be examined during the intake which topics can be skipped.

While the main focus is to organize the academy for newcomers, that are able to follow the program from one end to another, it turns out that many of the topics are so in-depth that they become useful to senior developers as well. For each course, we maintain an in-depth topic list that can be found here on these pages. Check them out and let us know if you have any questions.

Every course signup is tailor-made. It does not make sense to have a student attend one specific week, when nothing is to be gained. On the other hand, our prices are so low, so that it becomes quite feasible to attend one week even though the knowledge might already be in place. Anyway, each signup is a custom process. Do you want to attend specific weeks? Let's make that possible. Note that the price for per-week signups are slightly higher than full-academy pricing.

Yes. The system requirements for the laptop must be such that a local stack of Magento (native or via Docker), Zoom and PHPStorm can be run together without any problems (for example, at least 16Gb RAM and an M.2 SSD drive).

When choosing the operating system (Windows, MacOS, Linux), it is important to know whether the setup is in line with the agency's working method. For example, do you only use Macs? Is Windows with Ubuntu within the WSL an option? Do you use Warden, Mark Shust's thing or Valet Plus? Together we look at which setup is most convenient for your participant.

Of course participants are needed for the academy. We prefer to leave the finding of participants to you: An employee will eventually end up on your payroll. And then it is useful that there has been a match between you and the participant for a long time. Preferably even a contract. The Yireo Academy can be regarded as a traineeship in this way. Some agencies therefore choose to find the candidates themselves - via educational institutions, via recruiters, via advertisements in regional media, via via.

Yireo can also help with the search: We actually take the position of the recruiter. For this we are tapping into contacts with universities of applied sciences, other trainers, recruiters and more. But there is no guarantee that this will yield results - after all, Yireo is an educator par excellence, not a recruiter. An intermediate solution is to use Yireo as a buffer with recruiters - Curated Recruiting. New candidates are then not checked for knowledge by the recruiter, but by Yireo. The search for the recruiter is then simple: Find a junior PHP developer and contact Yireo for review. If you are interested in this, it is most convenient that we call about this.

Several times a year, the Dutch government makes a STAP budget available to private individuals or the self-employed to follow courses. That sounds nice, but there are a lot of caveats to be made in practice. The budget is often given away within a day, especially through large trainers who manage to be at the front of the queue. And the requirements for a party like Yireo are extremely high to be regarded as an official trainer: In the past, for example, there was a requirement that there should be a complaints committee of at least three people in addition to the teacher, which is impossible for a one-man business like Yireo. . In short, the STAP budget is currently only a sales tool for large educators and not for Yireo.