Is a course worth it?

[aaronleflay]

Good afternoon all.

I am 28 years old and I'm looking to retrain as an Electrician.

I will hopefully be starting a course with ableskills.co.uk at their training center in Dartford in Sept.

I would really appreciate some independent advice about starting a career as an Electrician by using a course like the one I'm doing from ableskills.co.uk.

The course I want to attend is called the "JIB Gold Card Approved Electrician" package. It's full time Mon-Fri for 4 months. Most of the package is made up of different City&Guilds courses and aims to teach me to "be an Electrician, a Domestic Installer, how to test portable appliances and how to inspect and test on both single and three phase supplies". I will also achieve "a level 3 NVQ and AM2"

I can find plenty of shining reviews online about the course and the instructors. Which is great, but i can't seem to find out whether the qualifications gained on the course actually mean anything in the real world.
After spending 4 months and £8k training, am I going to be laughed at when I apply for work?

I did horribly at school when i was younger. Not because I'm stupid, but because I was too immature to realise that a good job will mostly require me to be learned in some way or another. I dropped out before my GCSE's and have spent my life convinced that I won't amount to anything because of my lack of qualifications. I don't want to waste my money. I want to better myself and learn something worthwhile that I can build a career out of.

Any advice on ableskills.co.uk or any similar course and whether or not it's worth it in the real world would be amazing.

Would you take on someone who has just been on this course?

Many thanks in advance.

The course is detailed here https://www.ableskills.co.uk/electrical-courses/jib-gold-card-electrical-training-course/

 

[Guest77]

The education board said it is ok to be open book
But city and guilds say you have to have it all to memory

So only.logic.cert.and eal are open book
I would guess.in the next.version of.2394/5 it.will.change
For it had a 40-50% pass rate on city and guilds
And even lower on the 2391 30-40%

But with new education bodies coming in.with their own version approved by the government city and guilds will have to.move with the time

The government will move for sure, they will be happy with easy exams, makes the unemployment figure look better for a start and teaching standards higher, however the C&G will hopefully stick to their guns and keep exams true to the course and not the muppets way out by letting anyone with a cheque book pass.