Education: assistants are now the first place people go to choose a course

"Is there a part-time data course I can do while working, recognised in Germany?" This used to be a search; it is now a conversation with an assistant. The providers that appear in the answer are the ones whose format, price, duration and recognition are stated as text.

The four facts that decide inclusion

• Format and workload. Online, in person, hybrid; hours per week; how long in total.
• Cost. The number, plus whether funding, instalments or employer billing exist.
• What it leads to. A certificate, a regulated qualification, a portfolio, nothing formal. Say which — honestly. Overstating recognition is the fastest way to be excluded.
• Prerequisites. Who this is for, and what you need before starting.

Outcomes beat curriculum

A module list describes what you teach. A sentence about who takes the course and what they do afterwards describes when to recommend it. Only the second one helps a model answer a person who is describing their own situation.

The trust problem

Education is full of unverifiable claims, so assistants lean towards providers who state checkable things: registration with a named body, an accreditation number, a founding year, a country. Plain facts are what get you into the answer.

What is listed here

Every provider below has a listing page and a markdown twin, linked from this article, the category feed and llms.txt, with a public count of AI-crawler fetches taken from raw server logs.