What a "fol-de-roll", perhaps if they went back to testing for "gas fitting" knowledge with everything in one module, we would be better off.
But would it be too expensive done that way?
As far as I am concerned I feel they could do it easily enough, there does not seem to be all that much in each module. Am I only saying that because I have been doing it for years? I don't know.
I suppose though people may baulk at having to be tested on things they are not going to use.
I often wonder though at some hundreds of pounds a module, could not the price of training and testing be brought down?
Anyway who chose the testing price structure anyway?
The colleges not the market, that seems a bit unfair.
What we need is an operative and self employed champion, who would ask the colleges about it, at the moment we just have to pay whatever is asked or perhaps be put out of work.
Perhaps if we reversed the roles a bit and formed into training and testing groups then asked the colleges what price they charged for block bulk training?
Lets hope the GasSafe scheme changes things. I feel it might, for by inspecting work done, instead of relying on certification under ideal conditions, it usually gives a good idea of what a person can or can not do.
And lets be honest that is all a compliance module usually consists of.
