Love my job, hate my course

A few months ago I began my employment at my current workplace, where I discussed with my manager two potential apprenticeships I could do. Having received very good grades at GCSE (I dropped out of my AS levels due to illness but was predicted 3 As in History and both English subjects), I voiced interest in a level 3 qualification option which was exactly what I wanted to go on to do, Business Admin. They instead put me on a level 2 in Customer Service and told me I would have to complete this before doing the level 3. I thought the qualification sounded really easy but the level 3 was what I really wanted to do and if that was what I had to do in order to qualify, so be it.

The assessor spoke to my manager about the 20%-off-the-job requirement for training. For a few weeks this requirement was met, I was given plenty of coursework time and training. However, I have previously worked at a similar job role to mine before: I picked it up very quickly and was left to my own devices just a couple weeks in, and it was decided me shadowing or being shadowed by a colleague was hindering me much more than it was helping.

Now, I am barely meeting 10%-off-the-job, and the rotas for the next 3 weeks were put up today: I have not been rota'd in for any coursework time or training, despite having coursework due at the start of the 3rd week. I want to talk to my manager but I don't want to even ask for coursework time: I'm genuinely interested in asking if I even have to complete this apprenticeship at all. I am much more valuable being at my job than I am sitting in a room at a computer doing coursework, the course itself is far too easy (another reason I cannot meet my training requirement: anything I didn't know I was shown and trained on prior to the start date of my course) and I'm not enjoying it at all. But I'm also aware that the employer would likely have to cover the tuition fees still, as well as pay me more if they did take me off my course, so I don't think they'd see it as a good move (even though at this rate I'm not going to pass the course anyway, due to the nothing except that ridiculous percentage).

I was wondering if anyone has been in a similar position? I love my job but I just feel that it would benefit everyone in the longrun for me to be taken off the course, but I'm scared to voice that opinion because I know they've already paid for the course. I just don't think there's anything this course is going to teach me that warrants me having to be covered for a full shift a week by a staff member who doesn't even share my job role and would much rather be doing their own job.

Sorry. You don’t get to decide here. Go with the process. There is nothing to gain for your employer or you. Complete the course and talk to your manager if your roster does make room for study if it should.