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Does anyone recommendations and/ or advice?
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Discuss Best "fast track" Gas course/training Center in the Plumbing Courses area at Plumbers Forums
does anyone recommendations and/ or advice?
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I'm sure I won't be the only one to suggest you might want to look at a different job/career until the construction industry shows good signs of improving. There are loads of posts on this on the forum.
If you choose to ignore the advice, I wish you luck!
If you choose to take heed of the advice, I wish you luck!
Why do you need a fast track with an nvq2
Just get some experience with a Reg installer and go as a cat 2 entrant
However much you pay, you'll still need your 80hours
Where in the country are you. Itll be easier to suggest a local place rather than all over the country
240 days and 140 days in total, much of this can be done in your tech cert 3 to help reduce
After reading several comments on this I spoke to training centres and they are all offering In-house on the job training,
so no need for gas safe engineers to train you up.
however I asked if i could do it with a gas engineer and just do the training at the centre, this seemed to confuse them.
Hi jase158 what area are you from ?
wrong, how can it be in house on the job? if its in house it is off the job
this can only be a con to get money off people who cannot get the evidence, id be interested to know which centre is doing this to see if the awarding body is aware of it
2. I am absolutely discusted by the way this is run, they told me that you need no previous experience to become gas safe registered, no Tech cert or NVQ. Exact words "you can come straight out of mcdonalds and go onto this course"
3. I think this is actually dangerous, how can you possibly know how to replace things properly if you haven't had proper on the job experience, I know an engineer who can tell you the exact fault from the fault code or a brief description. He has done the 5 year apprenticeship to get into plumbing and he is absolutely brilliant. but how can you possibly know how tight a nut should be or whether you have done it properly if you have never even soldered a joint before you did a course, these courses are great for teaching the mathematics of it all but as said before, nothing beats on site experience.
However I thought I would set the record straight, unfortuaneatly these days anybody can go on a gas course, without even knowing how to solder a joint and pass the ACS within 2-3 months, now that is what you call fast track, feel sorry for the people doing 2 years on site experience (gas) for these people to come and do 2-3 months and earn the same sort of money.
point 2
you cannot do the ACS without qualifications or relevant and current experience. it is not designed to teach you how to fit boilers, that is not its intention, it is a 5 year safety ticket to ensure you are up to date with safety procedures and knowledge. it is for people who either are qualificed or have relevant experience, so to say anyone can do it is misleading. If the centre you say allow you to pay and sit the training without experience then nothing is wrong, its just you cannot sit the assessment until you have completed or proved all relevent quals and/or experience
point 3 - again you are confusing what the ACS is suppose to offer, it is not there to train you fault codes, it is not designed for that purpose, it is not wrong if it doesnt do what ir doesnt claim to do. if you want to be trained on gas do the relevent training course, the NVQ
point 2
you cannot do the ACS without qualifications or relevant and current experience. it is not designed to teach you how to fit boilers, that is not its intention, it is a 5 year safety ticket to ensure you are up to date with safety procedures and knowledge. it is for people who either are qualificed or have relevant experience, so to say anyone can do it is misleading. If the centre you say allow you to pay and sit the training without experience then nothing is wrong, its just you cannot sit the assessment until you have completed or proved all relevent quals and/or experience
point 3 - again you are confusing what the ACS is suppose to offer, it is not there to train you fault codes, it is not designed for that purpose, it is not wrong if it doesnt do what ir doesnt claim to do. if you want to be trained on gas do the relevent training course, the NVQ
The days are approximate, it really depends on the overall time spent on jobs. Maybe they fit 240 days on site expeirence into 20 days? Or they have a different awarding body who request something different? It dont sound right to me but if they have found a way round it somehow then who am i to say it is incorrect, it may be imoral but dont blame the system because a centre has found a way round it. The system is fine, maybe the people checking it should be more rigourous with certain centres. I suppose we would only know how much work required by them if somebody on here posts to say what they did to satisfy the on the job experience part of this course.
you cannot become gas safe registered before you have your ACS, remember they said for 4.5k you CAN become GS,R not will. registration is for the individual nothing to do with the training provider.
to answer your question, what is stopping them letting anyone do the assessment, simply the course rules, they must abide by the awarding body, ACS is not open for people without experience, look at my 3 categorys. Which would you be?