randyrat

Goooood Heavens......
this post sat idle for weeks, and then.......BANG!!!!!!!
Looks like I have lit a fuse......thanks for all the comments by the way.....it would seem that as usual all this qualification malarkey is shrouded in murk, and some of the stuff these training bodies are offering as "Full qualification" is not all that.
Ah well......here we go again......
randyrat

foggy

Sorry guys....................!!


I bow to your judgement ....and cancelled the course!! but all this stuff is out there and there's plenty of people going on these courses, so what are they achieving??


sorry for going on one but what courses should I do ? Is it


EAL domestic installer
C&G 2382-10 (17TH EDITION)
C&G 2391


Had a very stress full weekend with all this going around in my head........!!! think I was trying to convince myself that it was ok .



please excuse me !!


foggy

randyrat

Foggy.....
I understand your frustration......I have been trying to fathom this out myself for some weeks now.
I want to end up as a fully qualified and certificated sparky, and need to know exactly the qualification and certification requirements. (And the best place to get them)
I have read all the info supplied by MET-UK, Tradeskills, Niceic, OLCI and all the rest, and the only thing I can say for certain is that they all claim to provide full qualification. Now, you would expect them all to offer the same groups of courses for that reason, but no....that isn't the case at all. Depending upon whosoe opinion you listen to, some of the courses available DO NOT supply enough qualification to allow you to go out sparkying legally, even though they claim to do so.
If, like me, you have tons of experience in the electrical field, a bit of cash to spare to pay for such courses, determination and intelligence to succeed, and the luxury of time available to do the courses, you are probably as fed up as me. I can't afford to take two years to get these quals at evening classes, and don't believe I should have to take that long just because "thats the way a real sparky learns". I've done all the spare time college I want to do...it's full time, short term that I need, and to get out there earning before the next mortgage payment.....
If anyone out there knows a training centre that can deliver that, please let me know.....it's like pis**ng in the wind at the moment....
(And for those of you who think people like me just want a quick entry to your trade.....I have been in charge of power generation, distribution, fault diagnosis, maintenance and upkeep on RN Ships and Submarines for the last fifteen years. I just don't have the civilian qualifications)
Moan over, sorry if I have ruffled anyones feathers...
Randyrat