Will you bother to get an NVQ?

[Daz]

Ivegots you've hit the nail on the head!!!! I'd like to do one.... did my H&S test but I am excluded because I can't get funding and like you I can't afford 5 grand. It seems that in order to get a cscs card I have to be in the process of doing an NVQ. As there are no public training providers nor the funding for this particular trade I would have to go down the road of doing an OAST.
If the government want us all to have NVQ's then they should damn well make it easier.
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Sorry OSAT

Sibs,

I got my CSCS card when I did my course at PTS, cost me £62 or something like that. I've not even thought about an NVQ and won't unless legislation is passed that prevents me from continuing as a self employed tiler.

I thought there are many centres around the UK that will CSCS test you?

 

[Perry]

what do they want to know lol and what can they teach me ? nowt but it will cost me and why should it they could learn more from me than i could ever learn from them ete

 

[White Room]

Probably no, I will be heading for 54 in 2010 and not interested but the younger guy's out there may have to just to keep working. The domestic market may get flooded

 

[J4CK THE RIPPER]

I have just registered for mine after doing an ICA course. If you want to do site work you have to be qualified to get your cscs card.

 

[SnipSnap]

Too late for me.
But I love to learn something new every day, without the need to make the big fish any fatter (£££££££££££££££££). They all want money, LOAAAAAADS OF MONEEEEEY!:8: .

 

[sibs]

I have just registered for mine after doing an ICA course. If you want to do site work you have to be qualified to get your cscs card.

Well there you have it!

There are several "grades" of cscs card depending on the level of experience or qualifications you have. If you have niether you can only have a cscs card if you have registered yourself for an nvq qualification.... there are plenty of private training providers but no funding. No local colleges that run the courses. I agree that the content is probably cr*p judging from what has been said on here but as someone quite rightly said it is handy to have. I have passed my health and safety test but I can go no further because it is cost prohibitive. I agree with all the comments made about nvq's but it doesn't solve the problem that I and many others have.
I find the whole situation rather contradictory :mad2:
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Sibs,

I got my CSCS card when I did my course at PTS, cost me £62 or something like that. I've not even thought about an NVQ and won't unless legislation is passed that prevents me from continuing as a self employed tiler.

I thought there are many centres around the UK that will CSCS test you?

Captain slow I am under the impression that the cscs test you are talking about is the health and safety test which I have done already and may I just say it was rediculously easy:lol: Anyway correct me if I am wrong on this

 

[brundlefly]

got my cscs card in 2003 never been asked for it once and i mostly do site work
i wont be re newing it... the same was said back then, everyones got to have it
or they wont be able to do site work....not true, you have to have it for the big players like bovis and a few others,

different types of cards for general workers and managers

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i have the blue one

 

[LM Ceramics]

i suppose i will have to get one eventually im 20 year old now no one has ever asked me for my qualifications mostly customer ask how long you have been tiling for i do alot of site work now so ill probably have to get one i did go to college when i started my apprenticeship but i left after a year i learned absolutley nothing plus i didnt get paid for that day i wish i did finish it caus i didnt have to pay for the course but i hated it now im probably going to have to go down the osat route

 

[Perry]

i cant get on some sites without a cscs card which i have for a laborer but have 26 years as a tiler mad aint it ete

 

[Peter]

Done my Level 2 in tech after I left school. Waste of time really.

Was half way though my Level 3 but threw in the towel as I didn't really feel the need for it.

Here in NI anyway, you get a gold CSR card for Level 3, but after 4 years qualified you get an upgrade to a gold card anyway.