Re: Lack Of Training Centres
:) I am glad to announce that we are just about to open a new Training Centre dedicated to Refrigeration and Air Conditioning.
Its located just off the M18 Junction 3.
We are busy setting up all of the classrooms and workshops.
Already an approved City & Guilds and CITB Centre, we are able to offer: C&G 2078, CITB Safe Handling of Refrigerants and Pipework and Brazing, Basic Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, as well as electrical courses.
We are having an Open Day on 2nd September 2004 anytime between 10am and 4pm. Anyone who would like to come along send me a message and I'll give you the details.
Re: Lack Of Training Centres
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Originally Posted by rdocwra
After reading this months Service Engineer magazine and reading the articles relating to training i convinced myself that it would be good for me to take a city & guilds refrigeration course.
We all know that refrig/AC engineers need to be properly trained & have all the relevent qualification. So what did i find when i went onto the city & guilds website. "THERE ARE NO TRAINING CENTRES WITHIN A 50 MILE RADIUS OF YOURE ADDRESS".
How are engineers meant to become qualified if there are no training centres locally !!!!!!!
I live near Newmarket, Cambridge,Ipswich & Norwich are all in commuting distance and yet there is no local training centre.
My message is this, OK people can harp on about untrained engineers trying to do the job but while there is a lack of training facilities out there what else do you expect.:(
Hey,
Talk about it !! I have been trying to get an apprenticeship for months now. No luck. So the UK has huge skills shortages of qualified trades peeps, but trying to get an apprenticeship is impossible almost. A couple of people told me to actually get signed on the doll as this would help :confused:
I dunno something is very wrong there man.....
Re: Lack Of Training Centres
iwent to training 2000 and worked with tony coe great team they have there thanks alot
adam:D
Re: Lack Of Training Centres
Guys
Yes there is a shortage of training centres in the UK however what you are failing to see is why?
Firstly the cost of equipping a refrigeration workshop to the standards required without the building is in the region of £300,000-00 add to that the electrical workshop, refrigeration Lab and theory classrooms your nearer half a million.
Secondly you have the staff needed to deliver the courses, we have 9 all costing £30,000-00 each plus admin support at another £30,000-00. To this you have to understand that getting suitable staff is a nightmare it takes us at least 6 months to find a tutor of sufficient quality and experience.
Unless you have all of the above and a building to put them in you are dead before you start.
Then comes the main problem, refrigeration companies in general do not want to pay for training as if they do train somebody as soon as they finish the training another company offers them a few quid more and they leave.
The problem for the training centre is getting enough students to support the massive overheads and stay afloat but then you have to keep the government inspectors happy such as Ofsted and Ally who come round every couple of years.
The centre I work for has fantastic facilities and good staff but we are stuck out on a limb on the East Coast, most of our students come from all over the country which means the employer has to pay for travel and digs. Nothing in my mind will change until a central fund for training apprentices is formed in the same way as it is done for the construction industry.
There are ways of getting training without going to a training centre, have you considered distance learning it is available for the City & Guilds Level Two Technical Certificate and the Level Three will be soon, then you can do the NVQ using the Experienced Worker Route.
Ian
Apprenticeships in the lincolnshire region
Hello
My name's Brady Chalk
I was just wondering if anyone could help me in the Refrigeration Engineering Apprenticeships industry.
I'm currently attending college doing a Refrigeration course and i am wondering if anyone has any free placements in their company or if they know anywhere that i can apply at.
Any replie's would be helpful,Thankyou
Brady Chalk
brady723@hotmail.co.uk
Re: Apprenticeships in the lincolnshire region
[quote=Brady Chalk;124938]Hello
My name's Brady Chalk
I was just wondering if anyone could help me in the Refrigeration Engineering Apprenticeships industry.
I'm currently attending college doing a Refrigeration course and i am wondering if anyone has any free placements in their company or if they know anywhere that i can apply at.
Any replie's would be helpful,Thankyou
Brady Chalk
Hi Brady.
Brady take your email address off the sytem and your address from the header bar
at the top. Lots of strange :confused: people read this site and you do not want that type
of information getting out.
People can get intouch with you via the PM service through this site.
Cheers taz.