Are short course providers diluting the tiling trade.?

[henrywillicombe]

basically these tiling course are aimed at idiots you cant learn to be good at anything in two weeks. are you actually going to say to your first customer youve done a two week tiling course. or your going to do a bathroom on price and make any money. because your two week course has made you able to tile to a standard and speed of a trained tiler. a fool and his money are easily parted.

 

[White Room]

]basically these tiling course are aimed at idiots you cant learn to be good at anything[/B] in two weeks. are you actually going to say to your first customer youve done a two week tiling course. or your going to do a bathroom on price and make any money. because your two week course has made you able to tile to a standard and speed of a trained tiler. a fool and his money are easily parted.

I beg to differ, some of the guys going on these courses are well educated people who are looking for a career change in later life and it's there only option due to there age of a change of direction.

 

[charlie1]

basically these tiling course are aimed at idiots you cant learn to be good at anything in two weeks. are you actually going to say to your first customer youve done a two week tiling course. or your going to do a bathroom on price and make any money. because your two week course has made you able to tile to a standard and speed of a trained tiler. a fool and his money are easily parted.

on the flip side of the coin.... we aint doing brain surgerry here, we are sticking clay squares to walls and floors!

 

[suave]

Guys! is this trade rocket science? answers on a postcard please

 

[The D]

Ok I have been out of the training side of thing for a few years now and I think at one point in the game there was a need to get people in to all trades and quick but that time has passed and we live in a very different world now.
I was gob smacked to find out that one of these short course providers has there own C&G qualification that no one else can deliver. This winds me up on two levels first it is a diluted version of the old ICA which was in my opinion insufficient as it was so in my eyes that means the full C&G qualification is absolutely worthless. Then there is this thing that only they can deliver it. Now I am not saying any other provider would want to deliver it as there is the Diploma they can deliver but if the people that wrote the NVQ and the Diploma had the same attitude these providers would not have the credibility they have now so I find that a tad distasteful.
But to answer the question in no uncertain terms yes the trade is being diluted by short course providers.

 

[Houston]

I've mentioned something before about these training schools, and promoting these on your forum downgrades the tiling industry for me. They are making serious money for teaching nothing and does my skull in,how do they sleep at night. Is the punter really to blame?

 

[White Room]

I've mentioned something before about these training schools, and promoting these on your forum downgrades the tiling industry for me. They are making serious money for teaching nothing and does my skull in,how do they sleep at night. Is the punter really to blame?

It's the fact they saying that there is a shortage of trades and you earn £40,000 in a year which is the issue, times have changed.

 

[Alan M]

40000 a year is 150 is pound a day after tax. there is no way a roocky could make that .
total lie. maybe posably after a few months if you got the right jobs where everything was perfect and just a matter of putting on the tiles. like large floors etc

 

[White Room]

Are you talking 7 days a week.....

 

[Houston]

Are short course providers diluting the tiling trade? Yes