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I hope this helps any potential T4TS users or those currently signed up.
I see plusses and minuses with this company and how it operates and will try to be impartial....
When I signed up to do the course I signed up to get my Part P but was also pushed by the salesman to sign up for NVQ 3, it was completely pointless as I only wanted to do Domestic work but unfortunately was too niaive at the time to realise. Several years later I'm still stuck with paying for that every month.
On the plus side the theory training is excellent, the manuals, computer work plus the on-line and phone help were all very good. Pretty much everything is there to help you pass the written tests.
Unless things have changed in the last few years you will get 5 weeks of practical study split into 1 and 2 week batches. These are okay but I would say that they are not long enough and do not provide enough hands-on work to walk away feeling confident or even particularly knowledgeable.
In summary, you will almost definitely get your Part P, as long as you follow their study schedule, but if you had no electrical hands-on before you will be lacking in any real world experience. This will not be so bad if you are going to work for someone but if you want to go and work for yourself, then you will be woefully short of knowledge. Electrical work requires heaps of building archietecture knowledge which you will not get from this course.
I wanted to work for myself and the way I got around this was to stay in contact with a couple of the guys that I met on the practical courses. We created a bit of a co-operative of knowledge sharing and even shared some of the bigger jobs that we landed. This worked pretty well and we're all holding our own, some 3 years later. We still bounce ideas of each other and share new experiences.
My main warning is not to get sucked in by their salesmen. My experience is that they are aggressive and only out to sign you up for as much as possible without thought to your actual real world requirements. AND once you have signed along that dotted line you could be left coughing up a lot of money that you didn't need to, that you can ill-afford when you are trying to build your own business.
It suited my needs at the time, as I wanted to continue working whilst training. I've been doing it for two and half years on my own now as a member of ELECSA so they have helped me to get where I wanted.
I see plusses and minuses with this company and how it operates and will try to be impartial....
When I signed up to do the course I signed up to get my Part P but was also pushed by the salesman to sign up for NVQ 3, it was completely pointless as I only wanted to do Domestic work but unfortunately was too niaive at the time to realise. Several years later I'm still stuck with paying for that every month.
On the plus side the theory training is excellent, the manuals, computer work plus the on-line and phone help were all very good. Pretty much everything is there to help you pass the written tests.
Unless things have changed in the last few years you will get 5 weeks of practical study split into 1 and 2 week batches. These are okay but I would say that they are not long enough and do not provide enough hands-on work to walk away feeling confident or even particularly knowledgeable.
In summary, you will almost definitely get your Part P, as long as you follow their study schedule, but if you had no electrical hands-on before you will be lacking in any real world experience. This will not be so bad if you are going to work for someone but if you want to go and work for yourself, then you will be woefully short of knowledge. Electrical work requires heaps of building archietecture knowledge which you will not get from this course.
I wanted to work for myself and the way I got around this was to stay in contact with a couple of the guys that I met on the practical courses. We created a bit of a co-operative of knowledge sharing and even shared some of the bigger jobs that we landed. This worked pretty well and we're all holding our own, some 3 years later. We still bounce ideas of each other and share new experiences.
My main warning is not to get sucked in by their salesmen. My experience is that they are aggressive and only out to sign you up for as much as possible without thought to your actual real world requirements. AND once you have signed along that dotted line you could be left coughing up a lot of money that you didn't need to, that you can ill-afford when you are trying to build your own business.
It suited my needs at the time, as I wanted to continue working whilst training. I've been doing it for two and half years on my own now as a member of ELECSA so they have helped me to get where I wanted.