A drinking buddy of mine is seriously thinking of training to become one of your goodselves.
We were both looking online at local colleges that did c&g electrical courses,and as we are both thick,got totally bamboozled.
One says to do course A you need to do course B first etc etc etc,then you need to do part 2,wheres part 1 then?
What i'm looking for is what courses you need to do and in what order?
He is thinking of going the part time learning route,keeping his day job(if he can!) and see were it leads,but would also consider leaving work(talk of redundancy  ) and studying full time if he can.

Thanks lads.

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I am guessing a 'chubby' post has been deleted?

Check out this site...
www.electricalqualifications.co.uk/adult.php  

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That doesnt ring true, NVQ level 3 is the standard that all wanna be electricians work to. All the students that go to my old college enter straight in at level 3, like me and my class did. I had no previous knowledge of electrics and I havent done maths at that time since school, I was 24 when i started electrics, just to give you some idea of time since I left school. I got an E for maths too!

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That also doesnt seem right, having an NVQ level 3 doesnt entitle you to be able to sign your own work off, you need C&G 2391 and 2381 as a minimum, oh, and at least 2 years experience within your field of electrics (Domestic, Commercial or Industrial) and sign up to NICEIC, NAPIT etc... You could have your own business and have one of your work force (maybe more depending on size of company) to be the qualified supervisor.

Carl

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Do you not advertise your traing courses on here? I think I have seen one or two. Anyway, I think I might have dug myself a deep enough hole, so I am just about to jump in!    

You will need work experience and the only way you will get this is by working with a spark. So the short answer is that you will probably have to work for a company, to get the relevant experience because most self employed sparks don't cover all the required practical modules that you will require for your course.

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I wish people would stop spreading this particular strand of misinformation.

1. There is no such thing as a Part P Course, no such thing as a Part P Qualification, no such thing as a Part P Electrician. (Whatever the marketing suggests.)

2. The principal requirements of Part P of the Building Regulations are stated in a single sentence, which requires 'reasonable provision' to be made for safety in domestic installations.

3. The most regular way of making this reasonable provision is held to be compliance with BS 7671, The IEE Wiring Regulations.

4. BS 7671 requires "Good workmanship by competent persons..." (Reg 134.1.1)

5. A 'competent person' is somebody with "...sufficient technical knowledge, relevant practical skills and experience for the nature of the work undertaken..."

ANYBODY with such competence, which includes the correct compilation of relevant certification, could satisfy the legal requirements of the Building Regulations, regardless of where or how they had acquired that competence.

And just for good measure - there are plenty of 'fully-qualified' electricians who would be judged incompetent by those criteria and plenty of non-electricians who could very easily acquire the necessary competence.

(Registration with a government-endorsed 'competent persons scheme' is another discussion altogether.)

I think Dingbat is just trying to stop all the "association" crap.

If I'm correct, there are a few courses, e.g. the EAL, that is specifically designed to meet the basic criteria registering bodies have for registering you on a defined scope scheme to sign off your work under part-p requirements, I would think that it would be ideal for those who wish to change career and go into domestic work - however you would still need to work with other electricians to gain the vital experience.

If someone wanted to change career and become a "proper" electrician then they would best spend their time and money on attaining the full vocational certificates and relevant experience.