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Hello and welcome to Electrical Qualifications. This site has been set up to help you demistify the somewhat confusing route to practising as an electrician. It is a useful resource for young people looking for entry into the electrical industry and adults looking for electrical training to retrain or gain qualifications in order to further a career in the electrical industry. The site is not just for potential electricians and the City and Guilds 2330 crowd, information is also available if you are a current practising electrician or an allied trade such as a plumber, gas fitter, contractor or kitchen fitter through the domestic installers qualifications and competent person scheme.
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Unions demand minimum wage for apprentices
Saturday 09th of August 2008
Trade unions have called on the UK government to introduce a minimum wage of £110 per week for apprentices, most of whom are exempt from minimum wage laws.
Apprentices aged under 19 and older apprentices in the first year of their programmes are exempt from the national minimum wage. The TUC said that this accounts for 70% of apprentices, who can get paid as little as £1.50 an hour.
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Government promise funds to end skill shortage
Thursday 26th of June 2008
The government addressed Britain's skills shortage today with a promise of £300m to train workers for jobs in construction, hospitality and manufacturing.
The innovation, universities and skills secretary, John Denham, has said Britain needs to train nearly two million workers in these and other sectors to remain globally competitive.
The £300m will be spent over the next three years and comes from Train to Gain, Labour's programme to persuade employers to improve workforce skills.
Its budget was £520m for 2007-08 and will rise to £1bn by 2010-11.
The construction industry will receive £133m of the sum, hospitality £112m and manufacturing and processing £62m.
The construction industry's training body, ConstructionSkills, said the funds would help beat "major skills shortages". It said it needed over half a million new entrants in the next five years.
It will use the money to, among other things, create 8,500 apprenticeships.
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Electrical apprentices paid the most
Wednesday 07th of May 2008
Fair pay for apprentices has identified the fact that apprentices in the electrotechnical sector are paid the most.
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FE lecturers, physical and verbal abuse and job satisfaction
Wednesday 23rd of April 2008
Approximately 60% of lecturers claim to have been verbally abused and 40% claim to have been physically abused. The survey goes on to state that approximately one third of lecturing staff work more than 11 hours above their contracted hours a week and two thirds of senior management do the same. The same survey states that 50% of FE lecturers are unable to balance the work commitments with their personal life and 75% reveal that there is too much stress.
The figures, whilst just that, figures, do reflect the thoughts of many that work in the industry. Although generally anecdotal, they are more than reminiscent of the types of comments that Electrical Qualifications receive every week. I suspect that these figures also coincide with comparatively higher complaints against the performance if FE tutors by the students.
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Whos fault is it for not training adults?
Tuesday 01st of April 2008
In an article for the Guardian, Alan Tuckett, director of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, has stated that colleges have little choice in the matter of turning away adult apprentices. A long annoyance of this site is that adults are treated like pariahs when it comes to education. There is a focus on approx 80% of the population gaining a Level 2 by whatever date, but what is a level 2 and is it really worth the recylced paper it's written on anyway?
Anyway, I'll leave you with the words of Mr Tuckett and just a thought or two. This government wants a nation of qualified semi-skilled labourers. Exercise your right to vote.
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