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So how many people have their 17th Qualification in A3 flavour?

What a load of turd. So I have to do a 3 day course because I didn't feel the need to take a day off work and pay hundreds of pounds a couple of years ago for a small update.
 

Don't get me started again on that poxy event, NICEIC larging it up in the Faraday Theatre, spending my money entertaining the hoi polloi of the IET etc. Putting Staniforth up in some posh London Hotel, cramming Space Barley down his neck, flippin outrageous.
 
well look at it this way... there will be a 6 month period where you can work to either the 17th or 18th edition, pass it quick and you can be the first guy in town working to 18th regs and charge more for your work... sell it as future proofing... give it a couple months and you will get nice shiny stickers on everything saying 18th compliant...
 
You need to donthis course if you wish to come across to your customers as a serious proffesional outfit.

It is a huge annoyance but it is just one of those things.
 
well look at it this way... there will be a 6 month period where you can work to either the 17th or 18th edition, pass it quick and you can be the first guy in town working to 18th regs and charge more for your work... sell it as future proofing... give it a couple months and you will get nice shiny stickers on everything saying 18th compliant...


I get a sticker? :eek:

Sign me up... sign me up!
 
I have 17 AMD 3 too.

Hoping the 18th is on over the summer or in Sept in the local college. But 1 day learning and a 1hr exam looks better than 3 days and a 2 hour exam lol
 
I'm working to 17th A3 but just booked my 18th it starts July 18th till 20th and it cost £300 for 3 days but I got told that all sparks must have 18th by Jan 2019....don't know how true that is though

I take it the person who said that, was the recipient of your (or your companies) £300?
 
For me, I imagine I will need the 18th before I renew my JIB card.
Normally I would try to find somewhere that would allow me to just sit the exam, but I have just been told my current employer will pay, so I may try to find somewhere that will provide a copy of the Regs.
 
I think I could well be telling them to stick this lot where the sun don't shine.
30 years in the NICEIC and they treat me like a bleedin' beginner.....what about special offers for long time members....some chance.....set of shysters.
Get friggin' genius Staniforth to sort out that motor control problem on a Heidelberg 4 colour printer that I did last week saving the client thousands.......what chance?..........SFA.
THIS IS B******KS!
 
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From my experience with them, I noticed a change just after the Part P came in they used to the upholder of standards and this is what their reputation comes from today from then they got very commercialised selling merchandise which once they wouldn't endorse. Let's face it what can they do at worst remove you from the roll I had this discussion with them when my old boss refused to comply with the regs. Although in the spec they put the contractor must be a member of theNICEIC we all know this is really how good a contractor is and price. We are only members of these schemes as it is the cheapest option to comply with building regs.
 
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