Alpine Tiling Closure, But Left With No Nvq.

[The D]

should really smoke for NVQ?:lol:

I always said I could not work without a *** hanging out my mouth and it has been all down hill since he got a new job. :lol::lol:

 

[jonrkirk]

Cheers for the replies deanotile. You have been very helpful. I am going to have to look in to this a bit more as I can't just walk away from the amount of money that I spent on the course. I think I will try and contact someone from NVQ office (if there is such a thing) and see if there is any record of me on there system and take it from there. Thanks also for the photos.

 

[The D]

Oliver Farrell 07771 542 431.
Specialist Training Adviser for Construction Skills
may be a place to start Or at lest he may be able to tell you where to start looking.

 

[jonrkirk]

That's excellent, thanks a lot :-D

 

[The D]

Just out of interest what did you pay and how long was your course ??

 

[jonrkirk]

I paid £1700 for a five week course.

 

[Max@ableskills]

Everything that deanotile has said is correct. ALL evidence required to gain your NVQ must be work based and not simulated.

I feel there is a bit of confusion between simulated evidence and work based evidence sometimes.

The photos that you have posted are from your training course which are usually undertaken at a training centre or sometimes a college.

These photos are from a simulated environment so cannot be used as evidence against your NVQ.

The photos of you are of tiling taken from your training course.

To gain your NVQ my suggestion would be to go onto the cskills website and look under qualifications and search for QUA850 which is NVQ level 2 wall and floor tiling certificate.

There should be a search facility telling you where your nearest centre/college is that deliver this qualification.

Hope this helps and good luck

 

[The D]

I must say that from an assessment point of view the pics as they are even if they was site based are not usable evidence as he is just stood next to some tiling there is nothing to lead the assessor to believe it is his work. And if you study the pics some things start to pop out that may make an assessor require further evidence.

Even site based evidence has to hit the criteria and be shown to be authentic.

 

[jonrkirk]

I appreciate that none of the photos can prove that I actually did the work, but I worked really hard on all of the projects that were given to me. Just so that I can learn from this experience could you let me know what things you have picked up on in the photos.

 

[The D]

I'm not knocking your work at all in fact the opposite.
You have to start thinking about the pics you will be taking to offer as evidence.
The things i would pick up on in the pics you have posed are more to do with what you are wearing than your tiling.
in 1,6 and 12 you have on a red t shirt in 2,7 and 8 you have a black one on in 5 and 13 it is white and you have protective glasses on your head.
For me it is things like that that say the pic was staged as you did not do all of that in one day and if it was staged was it even your work.
you have to make the assessor have no doubt in his mind that the work in the pic is yours where ever you can have pics of prep work and setting out. To an assessor a pic of a half don job with you fixing a tile or spreading the adhesive is worth more than a pic of a lovely finished job and you stood next to it.