These videos are produced to help enable people looking to join the electrical, have a clearer picture of what that journey may look like. For example the course length, the cost, getting a job at the other end, on going training, and what avenues are open to you once you complete the course.
Aiden reached out to me to discuss his route into the industry via the City and Guild 2365 levels 2 and 3, which were both 12 months long two evenings a week.
Like many others, Aiden felt that the school pushed him down the academic route because he had good grades, when they should have paid more attention to what he was spending his pocket money on. As such, he ended up in a career for 20 years which wasn't really want he wanted to be doing, so he looked at learning a trade.
Why do schools put the pressure onto academic individuals to go down the university route, and the non academic are told to learn a trade.
A level 4 maths and English is required to complete the City and Guilds 5357 electrical apprenticeship, and if you don't have it when you start, you need to complete functional skills and be at that level before you qualify. Yet the City and Guilds 2365, which follows the same qualification structure, does not have any entry requirements.
I wonder how many people are told that, and why that is?
Anyway, here is Aiden's experience.
15 май 2021
