One to ponder....

[tidyboiler]

Oh yes - he can that!!

It's a shame that texting & tweeting are not job requirements or he may have found himself a job and stopped being a bloody scrounger before now!!

Well, he doesn't take after his evil step-mother................ that's for sure!! :49:

 

[Geordie Spark]

I've been saying that all along on this forum, standards have dropped like a bloody stone since i did my training, but it goes right across the education board as a whole. That increasingly goes for the standards obtained in trade qualifications too. I'd like to see how a newly qualified electrical student would get on with the C&G papers that we had to pass, and there were no multiple choice questions to be found anywhere in those days, full answers often with diagrams only was the order of the day!! Even the attitude of today's students as a whole leaves a lot to be desired.

Yet there are some here that are convinced and will argue till the cows come home that the C&G papers of today are just as hard as those of yesteryear!! Never in a month of Sunday's is my reply to that kind of wishful thinking!!

This was true in Engineering as well.

I served my time in the '60's - College ,C&G etc and 15 years later I was an instructor traingpprentices and could not believe how much their college work had been dumbed-down since I did it.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Well, he doesn't take after his evil step-mother................ that's for sure!! :49:

Definitely not pet. :love:

 

[shanky887614]

I've been saying that all along on this forum, standards have dropped like a bloody stone since i did my training, but it goes right across the education board as a whole. That increasingly goes for the standards obtained in trade qualifications too. I'd like to see how a newly qualified electrical student would get on with the C&G papers that we had to pass, and there were no multiple choice questions to be found anywhere in those days, full answers often with diagrams only was the order of the day!! Even the attitude of today's students as a whole leaves a lot to be desired.

Yet there are some here that are convinced and will argue till the cows come home that the C&G papers of today are just as hard as those of yesteryear!! Never in a month of Sunday's is my reply to that kind of wishful thinking!!

i agree that the older exams were harder because they had to be written out but, they are not all multiple choice

all the exams for level2 and some for level3 are multiple choice though.

when i started work experience with a particular firm i had a lot of respect for one spark in particular.

he could explain things very well and quote from the book to back his answers up including page and exact regulation number from memory

 

[ferg]

Oh yes - he can that!!

It's a shame that texting & tweeting are not job requirements or he may have found himself a job and stopped being a bloody scrounger before now!!

Personally I blame the parents. :95:

 

[telectrix]

Personally I blame the parents. :95:

up to a point, but then if a parent disciplines his child, the pc nanny brigade then do their damnedest to put child into care. same with schoolteachers. nobody dare stand up for fear of being branded a child abuser.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

I think that allowing a 28 year old to ride a bike without appropriate training, is very dodgy.
Who carried out the Risk Assessment, was appropriate PPE used?

 

[ferg]

My post was meant entirely in jest.

My two turned out just fine without any form of physical discipline.

On the other hand I was a complete flocking nightmare after lots of it.

In reality who cares?

Some kids do great others not so much, either way they annoy the ****e out of us and impress us equally.

My youngest I've chauffeured to court and back for being dumb enough to get caught.

I'm also immensely proud of what he's achieved so far in his working life.

They are both on track for being better human beings than I am.

WINNER

 

[tidyboiler]

I think that allowing a 28 year old to ride a bike without appropriate training, is very dodgy.
Who carried out the Risk Assessment, was appropriate PPE used?

It was even worse when he fell off a step ladder, (about a yard drop to the grass......... yes grass) and his poor excuse for a Mother called the paramedics!!!!! I jest not. I think they pi$$ed themselves laughing all the way back to base. :46: