Dear Tiny Speck -
I had started Better Learning V after one of the tests then paused it when Glitch reopened in this last test. I started training other skills like you would if you were strategically thinking about the times when Glitch is opened and closed or when you could be around to play verses when you can't. In the process I noticed Better Learning V went from 6 days learning time to 11! What the heck!?
In all my times playing games, especially MMORPG's, I've never known a game where you started training one skill and then suddenly there was longer time added after you paused to go learn something else. EVE Online certainly doesn't do that. I can understand the need in balancing the game and extending time for other skills you've not started learning but quite frankly I think it's a really poor user experience when you have started training a skill and taken the time to get it down to a certain time only to have time added. It's really defeating and doesn't encourage one to keep training the skill at all.