CAROLT - Buy the Manchester Evening News on a Thursday night and go to the Building and Construction section of the jobs pages - you should find one or more places that offer tiling courses. Other than that, check out the Sun or Daily Mirror also I think on a Thursday - they seem to have a lot of places offering plastering and tiling courses.
Good Luck......and don't forget to take a box of matches with you.................they are very good as spacers between the tiles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!