[modeleng] Re: Adult education and pratical training
- From: steve crees <stevecrees@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 15:55:44 +0000 (GMT)
I am with you John regarding apprenticeships and training my 11 year old son is
geting into model engineering and he says i wish there was some were I could
learn to do this propely I went to his open evening at his secondry school all
they had was 1 lathe, 1 mill and 30 benches when i went to same school there
was 6 lathes, 6 mills and 30 benches and also a small ali smelting furnace this
has now gone but they said he doesnt do metelwork any more but combined
technology this covers cooking, textiles,woodwork,and metal work including
drawing so they spend a long time learning how to manufacture things
approxamatly seven weeks on each subject.
Steve
john.burridge@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi to all,
We have had a couple of new apprentices this year and have sent them to Newbury
college in Berkshire for initial pratical training which turns out to be a
night school class which model engineers attend, I believe that for Eighteen
years this class has been running i am also told that the former Technical
college in Oxford runs a simalar course.
Additional to the apprentices there have been a couple of chaps which are
accademically trained upto either HND or even degree who wanted to do the
pratical training which these days with training schools having dissapeared can
now use these night school classes to catch up.
I surpose that running a training school as i did back in the late 1970'S is
expensive but the level of applicants coming for jobs are trained at the
technical level but not at grass roots as was the case in the olden days, it
didn't matter weather you were craft,technical or graduate everyone went
through my training school at Land Rover which made you understand lots of
information frm basic princapals.
Seeing lads and these days sometime lasses start work not even being able to
use a saw or a file correctly(not alone simple machine tools lathes,Mills and
the simple drilling machine) but being able to design on the CAD not realy
understanding how things are done
causes problems and slow producting down when things need redrawing or complete
redesigning.
Hopefully companies still doing engineering will see sence and start to train
at basic levels again to keep what engineering we have as a country at a high
standard which we once had.
Enough of my waffle.
regards John Burridge
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