Are short course providers diluting the tiling trade.?

[dave l and l]

to many false promises and leading you astray , the adverts make i sound a whole lot easier than it is. its the exact same as plastering. ye cant go from getting taught over a few years to learning it in a couple of weeks

 

[DHTiling]

Just wanted to make sure I didn't offend anyone Dave.........

I know mate , just clearing it up before we go stray.

 

[Alan M]

as a pretender, i have to agree with this, i see on this forum the welth of info that the experts have. there are loads of situations that you lot would have no problems doing but i wouldnt even know where to start. i would leave these to the experts. i would consider myself fairly clued in on most trades but would never do anything i wasnt compident to do. if i dont know how to do something i will find out how to do it properly . i think the problem is that most people see someone doing something similar and think they are experts and can do it the very same. they dont understand the theory behind it.
most coarses only show the basics or the easy parts and at that they only skip over it. they only show the ideal situation and when someone goes out on site and realise the real situation you see ,they dont know how to get around those situations where that the books dont show(out of level walls,floors,out of square floors etc)

 

[Dougs Third Go]

I think the qualifications that are dished out after a short course are a joke, apparently they are willing to say that one of their students is more qualified after a few weeks than the likes of myself that have been doing the job for decades. I don't know whether that counts as "dilution" but I certainly see it as disrespectful.

 

[Peter]

Never been convinced by courses as a sole stepping point into a trade. Ideal for a basic knowledge but IMO the only route after this is to work to a tiler for a few years. I never stuck a tile until well into my second year as an apprentice, hated it at the time and got very disheartened but glad I did it that way as it's no use being able to stick a tile until you can do everything else. After you've been observing for a year then the tiling comes more naturally too than coming into a 5 day course and tiling wall that morning when you've never as much as opened a box of tiles.

The training schools are wrong in what they promote, ie shortage of tilers and promises of new tilers earning £40k a year. You'd be lucky to make £200 a month if you just come off a short course from nowhere with no skill, experience or contacts.

 

[DHTiling]

I think the qualifications that are dished out after a short course are a joke, apparently they are willing to say that one of their students is more qualified after a few weeks than the likes of myself that have been doing the job for decades. I don't know whether that counts as "dilution" but I certainly see it as disrespectful.

You only have to take the City and guilds qualification thread to see what i mean .. mickey/minnie and donald are laffing :lol:

 

[Peter]

For what it's worth, my whole class got their NVQ as we filled out our modules together. There was no possible way of failing it.

 

[Spud]

The real scandal is how someone with just 2 weeks training is allowed to be let loose with thousands of pounds of materials that someone has saved for years to buy and saved even longer to get an "expert" to install it is a farce but this is not the persons fault who has done their course in good faith and has spent their money trying to learn something new and believes they are fully skilled when they have got their certificate,the problem is no governing body covering work in domestic homes and course providers claiming tiling is easy and concentrating more on the marketing of the newbies new business than ensuring they have the skills needed to do the job

 

[Dougs Third Go]

Is it time tilersforums.com stopped promoting these courses..?.. does such and established forum need to punish the industry anymore..?

that's a catch 22 situation, obviously an internet forum needs revenue to operate, but do many people actually look at the ads?

 

[strummerman]

i av 2 lads who work for me and they are both in there late 20s i put them both through the apprenticeships even though i let them work on there own i still over see wot they do