Having just read this article with all the usual half truths and misinformation, it dawned on me that this is being written by a representative of the ''Electrical Contractors’ Association'' the very people that represent the companies that should be promoting and encouraging meaningful apprenticeships, ...Right?? So why is it, that only a very few of them are actually taking on bona fide apprentices?? These buggers haven't been active in the apprentice arena for what seems a good many years now!! They seem to only become remotely interested, as and when the Government is dishing out grants or other financial incentives etc!!! From what i can understand most of these so-called ''grant apprenticeships'' only have a duration of 2 years, so even at the end of these short training periods, you're still NOT going to have a well rounded tradesmen, just another part trained individual!! The word Hypocritical springs to mind!!
Rather than having a pop at the students and parents of school leavers, where's her so called leadership in kick starting these associated companies she is representing, into bona fide training schemes that will deliver the well rounded qualified electricians the UK will be needing?? Strikes me that her ECA post and title, is little more than an over paid resident desk job for someone that has little to no idea what is required as an electrician, or what's even going on in the big real world outside of her office!!
Said it more than once on here, the UK as a country will be hiring overseas contract electricians, in the not too distant future, (like the Saudi Arabia of Europe, without it's money) to provide cover for what little industries we have left. One things for absolute sure, our abundance of 17 Day/electrical trainee's ain't gonna be of any use whatsoever in industry, or even in the building of those industrial facilities!!
