Where and how to know about coffee and espresso knowledge and brewing skills?

[pstam]

If someone would like to learn about coffee and espresso and their brewing skills, do they have to go to SCAA and SCAE training only? Are you satisfied by those training? If not, what is missing?
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[ensoluna]

Since you work in Beijing China, just wondering, whether there are SCAA and SCAE training schools in either Shanghai or Beijing....