Get a Trade | Alternatives to University
Struggling to get into Uni? Do you really want thousands of £s of debt and no job prospects? Or do you want to earn thousands and have prospects that your peers will be envious of? There are alternatives to university.
What do you really want to become? Successful, gain higher earnings, run your own business, use your skills to their full potential...? You certainly need to consider the alternatives to university as well as your ambitions and think of the important questions that are important. We will give the answers you need. But don’t just take our word for it about the alternatives to university: Speaking after her inauguration as the first female President of the Electrical Contractors' Association (ECA) earlier this year, Diane Johnson gave a stark warning about the lack of young people entering the industry:
“For too long now the emphasis in the UK has been on University education rather than on-the-job skills training, with the craft route often seen as a lesser option. But I have young graduates knocking on my door with increasing regularity asking for the chance to learn a trade as their degree has proved almost worthless in the job market. This is particularly alarming as the cost of a degree is causing more and more graduates to leave with quite a scary level of debt, before they’ve even entered the ‘real’ world, and with limited prospects.
“We are sitting on a ticking time bomb. If we don’t act now, we will not have the home-grown talent needed to fulfil this country’s potential. The consequences of that will be more far reaching than most people realise.
“Critically, the UK is fast falling behind other countries, such as Germany, which still recognise the need for craftsmen and women and have continued to train much higher numbers of apprentices. This will affect our young people’s long term chances of employment as foreign companies undertaking contracts in the UK will be forced to bring in their own skilled labour because we will not have the skilled labour to compete for those jobs.
Need we say any more? Get in touch about the alternatives to university and start an exciting, rewarding and lucrative career as an electrician, plumber, carpenter or another trade. Call us for free advice.
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City & Guilds and EAL accredited courses allowing you to install and test your own electrical work plus courses allowing you to test, inspect and/or design electrical schemes
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City & Guilds and EAL accredited courses that include everything from designing and installing a replacement bathroom through to NVQ 2 qualification in domestic plumbing
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NICEIC accredited courses that includes fault finding and installing cookers, fires, boilers, gas meters and leads to Gas Safe registration.
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City & Guilds and CAA qualifications in roofing, flooring, first & second fix, furniture construction.