You are right Ian, absolutely right
the NVQ proves practical competence to compliment academic achievemient
and it meant that when i did my NVQ 3 in electrical maintenance engineering back in the mid nineties
what i object to is the inference (not from you Ian!) that without an NVQ 3 in installations, than you cant be an 'electrician' (and I know this has been discussed before, extensively)
of course the NVQ has its place, but i was doing entire three and single phase industrial installations (inlcuding generators etc, and testing and inspecting) for quite a few years before NVQ's were dreamed up by thatcher's crowd
maybe i should go back to college and learn to be a 'proper' electrician
