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Just to add my 0.02...
I'm the other side of what you're contemplating. I now have 2365 L2+L3, plus latest 17th Ed. I did it through Able Skills, and took the decision to take their full-time option - but then I don't have a family to support and had savings. If you want to know more about how I did it, feel free to message me directly.
However, I don't agree that the NVQ (the element I'm working on now) is not required. If you want to be earning good money as an electrician - which you seem to - you need to hold a JIB / ECS Gold Card. Without it, you're not graded as an Electrician. To get the NVQ, you need to have passed AM2. To even contemplate the portfolio of evidence needed for the NVQ, you need to secure work - as a Mate or an Improver - to get to do the things you need to do. Ostensibly, the NVQ is the apprenticeship-style validation of the C+Gs. To complete it means you have the practical competencies that match the paper-based competencies.
Almost exclusively, to get onto a job you need an ECS Card. With what I have, I only grade as an Ancillary Operative - Electrical Labourer.
It is also not a shopping list. Even others on the same course as me seemed to see the quals as things to 'square away' - which doesn't afford the qualifications the respect they deserve. But I guess that's a personal gripe...
I was on my course with a chap who had (12 months previously) completed a Domestic Installer course. Said it was a very intensive 4 weeks, at the end of which he felt sure he didn't know enough. He wisely then went to work for someone else (an experienced domestic sparks) for 6 months prior to going it alone. He had moved onto doing his 2365s and NVQ because he wasn't getting the work.
I think ultimately, I'm not saying this to urinate on your sautéed edible tubers - ut thought some info based on my experiences may be of use. The information is both everywhere and nowhere. At least, that's how I felt.
I'm the other side of what you're contemplating. I now have 2365 L2+L3, plus latest 17th Ed. I did it through Able Skills, and took the decision to take their full-time option - but then I don't have a family to support and had savings. If you want to know more about how I did it, feel free to message me directly.
However, I don't agree that the NVQ (the element I'm working on now) is not required. If you want to be earning good money as an electrician - which you seem to - you need to hold a JIB / ECS Gold Card. Without it, you're not graded as an Electrician. To get the NVQ, you need to have passed AM2. To even contemplate the portfolio of evidence needed for the NVQ, you need to secure work - as a Mate or an Improver - to get to do the things you need to do. Ostensibly, the NVQ is the apprenticeship-style validation of the C+Gs. To complete it means you have the practical competencies that match the paper-based competencies.
Almost exclusively, to get onto a job you need an ECS Card. With what I have, I only grade as an Ancillary Operative - Electrical Labourer.
It is also not a shopping list. Even others on the same course as me seemed to see the quals as things to 'square away' - which doesn't afford the qualifications the respect they deserve. But I guess that's a personal gripe...
I was on my course with a chap who had (12 months previously) completed a Domestic Installer course. Said it was a very intensive 4 weeks, at the end of which he felt sure he didn't know enough. He wisely then went to work for someone else (an experienced domestic sparks) for 6 months prior to going it alone. He had moved onto doing his 2365s and NVQ because he wasn't getting the work.
I think ultimately, I'm not saying this to urinate on your sautéed edible tubers - ut thought some info based on my experiences may be of use. The information is both everywhere and nowhere. At least, that's how I felt.