More Tile Industry News: Chase Tiling Academy Warns Wannabe Tilers!
Many tiling training centres are claiming they can offer a wall and floor tiling NVQ when actually the training they provide does NOT go towards your NVQ!
Here are a few words of warning from Chase Tiling Academy – Staffordshire.
All our courses here at Chase Tiling are accredited by a QCA Awarding Body (City & Guilds / NOCN).
Our curriculum and training centre is also approved by the Guild of Master Craftsmen. They stipulate that our programmes and delivery methods meet their strict quality guidelines.
We offer 1,2 & 4 week courses – ALL ACCREDITED BY THE NOCN
We also provide the C & G Level 2 Intermediate Construction Award (ICA151) in Wall & Floor Tiling. This is a 6 week course.
We also offer the NVQ2 in Wall & Floor Tiling (QUA750) through On Site Assessment & Training (OSAT). This can take from as little as 10 weeks to 2 years to complete, dependant on past qualifications and/or experience.
Our tutors are both NVQ trade qualified, A1 Assessors and qualified teachers.
Make sure the course you do is accredited by an recognised awarding body.
2 reasons for this:
1. You know you are getting the right training.
2. You can use the certificate towards gaining your NVQ2.
Be aware of ‘training centres’ that say they can get you your NVQ if you do their course. They are talking rubbish and are using this as a marketing tool to pull punters in to do their expensive courses.
Fact of the matter is, you can only do your NVQ at a Construction Skills / City & Guilds accredited centre AFTER you have done an APPROVED training programme recognised by the QCA (unless you have a minimum of 3 years experience).
These are the guidlines set out by City & Guilds at present for NVQ’s.
Think of it like this – get a random driver to help you learn to drive, then do your driving test. IT AINT GOING TO HAPPEN!! Get a qualified driving tutor to help you learn, your chances are almost 100% to pass!!
TIME AND TIME AGAIN WE GET CALLS FROM ‘TILERS’ HERE, THAT ARE HAVING DREAMS SMASHED BY REALITIES BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN TRICKED INTO BELEIVING THAT THE EXPENSIVE NON ACCREDITED COURSE THEY DID WILL QUALIFY THEM FOR AN NVQ STRAIGHT AWAY!!
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A couple of ways you can look at this. 1) Do a short course, gain the skills, get out there to earn a living and when the day comes that stops tilers working without a Qualification you stop earning for a while whilst you do your NVQ. 2) Do a course with Chase Tiling Academy which does go towards your NVQ and start to work whilst completing the full NVQ, when the day comes you are laughing as the % of tilers would have dropped some what and the business you get in you don’t need to fight for.
Speaks for its self really.
keep up the good work guys…this is how a course should be run…….dave…
Excellent advice for anyone looking to take a short course. Couldn’t have put it better myself.
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