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So to become a licensed driver a person must now pay £1500? For some insane course that is about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.

I suppose in one respect it keeps out the riff-raff

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i actually found my chococolate fireguard a darn site more useful
than the nvq

As I said before they aren't going away they are just costing the drivers. Out of curiousity how much is it costing them and do they do the Btec or the NVQ?

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Whats the difference between yhe B-Tech and NVQ, I'm pretty sure we done both all rolled in at once.

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And hopefully the festive scabs.

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Council here (Winchester) have not adopted it as the companies offering nvq's or B tec were arguing over which is the better qualification!!! But thought it may be a good idea for new applicants to the trade or those who have a poor command of English and simple arithmetic.....
As if they would survive in the trade anyway!!!!

The Btec is classroom based (or should be) and forms the basis of the underpinning knowledge and imo if delivered correctly with appropriate teaching is the better of the 2 courses. The NVQ is a work based assessment of ability/competence and should not be undertaken if you haven't been in the vocation for at least 12 months. The theory is that if a candidate is not up to scratch then they will be brought up to scratch before they get their NVQ, but, in reality this isn't the case. With there being no funding for the Btec (which is all a lot of councils require) candidates have been persuaded to complete the NVQ which attracts funding of anything up to £1800. A Btec can be completed for as little as £150.00 in some cases

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Our LO was talking about a meeting he had with other LOs from Scotland and NI. He mentioned a company called Go Skills, who didn't rate the btec. Anyone heard of them? They may be coming our way soon.

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Pmsl....... yeah I've heard of them, just google it.

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toots, the laughter, is it because I didn't google or because it's them? Seemingly we Scots don't have an equivalent qualification to the NVQ they tutor. I'd hate to think a slick salesperson is selling us a pup.

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This looks like we have done the two then. Had 3 days in a classroom like you said Toots and on thr fourth day we took an exam consisting of multiple choice. In between and a bit of homework consisting of answering ranges of questions from diversity equality health and safety and manual handling scenario's as well as a load more sheets of Q&S regarding the job which were mostly answered through common sense. This was all put into a folder along with pictures of me my vehicle, plate as well as a report from assesor who came out with us for a couple of hours. Assesors deffo told me it all came to around £1500 quid.

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It wasn't you that I was laughing at it was just the whole scenario tbh. Go Skills is another of those government funded enterprises and it's their job to promote skills and training etc.



I would have thought that the SVQ was the equivalent, but maybe not I don't know for sure. Perhaps what they are saying is that there is no Passenger Transport Qualification as yet in Scotland



That is for the NVQ and that can be as much as £1800. They don't charge for the Btec if you do the NVQ. It is the Btec on it's own that was £150.00. Did you not do any loading of wheelchairs and fastening them down etc?

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that's what I meant, toots thanks.

BTW and thanks for clearing up the laughter thing.

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It is a decent time to use it again, so go ahead 'make my day', use it again!!

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