Electrician Courses across the UK. Electricians training courses leading you to a lucrative career in months.

Electricians Training Courses

Training to become an electrician has historically only been open to school leavers (16 - 24 year olds) through on the job electrician training and day release college electrician courses leading to vocational electrical qualifications. These take from 2 to 5 years to complete and wages during the training are generally very low.

Finding a electrician firm to train a school leaver has also proved very problematic.Most electricians tend to be sole traders who can't offer the level of training required. Firms that can offer the required skilled electrician training tend to be adverse to training staff who, generally, once qualified will leave and set-up in competition with their trainer!

Mature electrical students (those over 24 years old) face both these challenges and the added problem that local colleges run courses that generally last for 2 years part-time leaving the student a long and hard slog to qualify with a class full of much younger students.

The traditional route for electrician training is not appropriate for 90% of new electricians

The traditional electrician training does not suit most mature students and even many younger students keen to get going in the industry within a few months and not wait several years.

Electrician courses are generally not flexible requiring a weekday per week time off work or the attendance of night courses with set times that can't be missed.

Only a few years ago, if you were over 25 years old you would have had no chance to become an electrician as no college or employer would look at you. Your only option then would have been to pay £20,000 plus to buy a franchise.

Electrical Career Skills is one of the few re-skilling providers to address these major flaws. People that take our electrical course are of varied ages and backgrounds.