I am very grateful for those Skill Centres, I did my training as a 'Heavy Vehicle Fitter' at the centre in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, set me upclam1952 wrote:As also did the Skill Centres before they got privatised in 1989, asset stripped and then went bankrupt!
All time served Tradesmen, using real equipment and supplies. After privatisation they could not afford to buy any materials, sold off most of the machinery and were teaching trades at a desk....
Oh and Deloittes made around half million out of the sale for their advice.....
Redundancy all cancelled as they were broke, in the end I got another job walked out and didn't bother to tell them until the day before I left.
for a career in the motor repair trade.
I did this training during the miners strikes of 1983, used to get stopped & car searched by the police on a regular basis whilst
travelling home for the weekend on Friday & going back on Monday morning.