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Clearly.
Seems to me 1 governing body works quite well. With NIC, Napit, Stroma, Elecsa, JIB, Electrical safety first, IET all with their own agendas it's no wonder the industry in UK seems to be becoming lower skilled and lower paid.
I don't know, going by agency rate trends, 6 years ago it was £13 an hour and now it's around £21. This is the commercial and industrial world though.
I must say though, some things these skills colleges are good for - the short courses like 17th edition and inspection and testing. The NVQ assessment, as they aren't governed by term times so students can be assessed more flexibly.
I think for the diploma part there is no other way than doing 1 day a week. That's how I did it, just seems sensible to learn this trade having a day aside learning why you're doing what you're doing on site every day.
I might add nobody stops learning, especially in this trade which is so closely connected with technology.