PITT Tiling Courses & NVQs
Tiling courses & NVQs
Tile Industry Training
What The Tile Association say:
The Tile Association Training Plan was created in collaboration with Construction Skills. It was launched to implement training in the wall and floor tiling industry in Britain in order to provide a qualified wall and floor tiling workforce.
The qualifications are based on the nationally recognised NVQs/SVQs and training is based on on-site training utilising existing informal training provision alongside more formal training from colleges and training centres to fill training gaps. Training grants will be available to participating companies.
The Construction Skills National Specialists Centre at East Leake, Leicestershire, has been accredited by City & Guilds as an Assessment Centre to deliver wall and floor tiling NVQ’s at levels 2 and 3. This centre forms the hub of the training programme and although the majority of training and assessing takes place on site there are 25 other Associated Training Centres across the UK. To find your nearest centre click here.
The Numbers are Growing
Currently there are over 700 tiling trainees on various TTA/CITB training schemes. They are mostly training on-site but are linked to the 25 colleges across the UK. There is also an Intermediate Construction Award for the unemployed or those on Government initiatives. Unlike the NVQ’s these people are training in college rather than on site.
The Tile Association Training Plan delivers value to customers in quality of workmanship and it delivers value to employers by reducing waste, limiting the effect of unqualified competition and avoiding complaints and litigation. A clear training and skills standard gives building professionals and householders another reason to prefer a TTA fixer and forms an effective barrier to the “cowboys”.
Our veiw point
Never be taken in by private training providers offing short training courses with qualifications at the end! This just will not happen.
Let’s be clear, the ONLY tiling qualification that is recognised by the industry is the NVQ, agree or not it’s there, and for now we are stuck with it.
Our view point is any training provider should not be allowed to offer NVQ as there is always a risk of corruption when a company is paid on pass results of students, better it is separate like driving schools, you learn with BSM once you have learned the underpinning knowledge you are advised to put in for a test via a qualified registered test centre.
I like to take my car for MOT at a centre that don’t carry out repairs, “why you may ask” well you are less likely to have a vehicle fail if there is no benefit to the test centre, however if a garage that repairs and MOTs and they are short of work they just might fail one or two to fulfil their diary don’t you think.
Training centres should only be allowed to offer either training in the underpinning knowledge or testing people via the experienced worker route or sending out assessors to carry out on site assessments.
Allowing one company to do both jobs could lead to NVQ qualifications that are not deserved; this will do nothing towards improving tiling standards in our growing tiling industry.
At PITT we offer the best in tiling training and we will arrange and help anyone through their NVQ once they have worked in the real world and demonstrated their experience working for some two years, but we will not assess you we will put you in touch with a registered assessor.
For more information call us on 01782 566166 or The Tile Association (TTA) on 020 8663 0946
Please don’t fall for misleading qualifications.
Our tip is copy and paste website content from any private training centres, in to a word document and see how some cover up what they say by misspelling many words, try it and see.
www.professional-itt.com for quality not fiction