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PostPosted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:04 pm 
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It appears that various councils are taking different views. Some want the VRQ (BTec) and others want the NVQ. The NVQ requires the driver to provide evidence that he is doing what he is being taught, for example if he drives a WAV they must show competence in performing this to an accepted standard. This would be witnessed by an assessor who is industry competent (as part of our course we actually trained two drivers as assessors) We then use this driver to do in house training (and sell their services to our trainers to assess other drivers).

The VRQ as i have said takes the form of two online tests, the first of sixty questions and the second of eighty, both multiple choice. The pass rate is 70%.

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for example if he drives a WAV they must show competence in performing this to an accepted standard.


for the 1 maybe 2 jobs per year he'll get a hire like that from a taxi rank?

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Nice chappie from go-skills said that he had £5 million funding so that he could go out and set up schemes FOR teaching Taxi drivers', and that he could help to arrange funding for anyone running a training programme, so there is funding for him and funding for them, but guess what there is no funding for the drivers who are self-employed to go on the course. :evil: :evil:

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MR T wrote:
Nice chappie from go-skills said that he had £5 million funding so that he could go out and set up schemes FOR teaching Taxi drivers', and that he could help to arrange funding for anyone running a training programme, so there is funding for him and funding for them, but guess what there is no funding for the drivers who are self-employed to go on the course. :evil: :evil:


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Hi,

I'm in St. Helens on Merseyside and will hopefully start driving next year. Whilst looking into getting my licence, I noticed that in St. Helens you have to gain a VRQ before they will grant you your licence.

Here's some info about the course:
http://www.wirral.gov.uk/minute/public/ ... _21388.pdf

Is this the norm throughout the UK, or is it just here?
And also, has anybody done the course? If so, how did you find it?

Thanks in advance,
Paul


Unfortunately sitting in a room and taking an exam wont make you a cab driver, but in fairness it makes licensing authorities think they are doing something worthwhile.

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That's what I first thought but I suppose if it's free, and it can be done at home in your own time then it won't do any harm.

I have had one thought though, will it make your insurance any cheaper or is that just wishful thinking?

Paul


I am afraid that is just wishful thinking, many a local authority had the wool pulled over their eyes by the DSA when introducing taxi driving standard tests, cheaper insurance was promised, the only thing was, they forgot to ask the insurance companies!

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:29 pm 
if you do the B-TECH through Wessex training they've negotiated some good discounts on not only insurance but other things aswell.
if you contact Wessex training they might pass on the discounts to you as long as you have some sort of proof of passing the course...?

ask for john Tye 07981 760860
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if you do the B-TECH through Wessex training they've negotiated some good discounts on not only insurance but other things aswell.
if you contact Wessex training they might pass on the discounts to you as long as you have some sort of proof of passing the course...?

ask for john Tye 07981 760860


Hi tm.

Sounds interesting, won't do any harm to try. :wink:

Thanks for the number.
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