What FREE training have you recieved?

Andybez38

As title im wondering what free training i can get whilst being unemployed. What free training have you had? as im a great beliver in the more strings you have to your bow the better it will look on cv's etc.

bitsandpieces

Open University would be worth a look, if you'd want to do a substantial amount of further study http://www3.open.ac.uk/studyatou/apply/financial-support.shtml

securityman

Completed a level 2 in electrical installation for free under the gov train and gain scheme.
The course would have been £1050. I had the money to pay for it untill ask about the t & g scheme that i saw in the local paper a couple of months before.
Just finished the course last friday and i have a job to start tuesday.
Still got to go back for level 3 and i will have to pay, but it helped me get a good job.
The best paid job i have had so far and it is only 8 miles from my house.

inmypocketnottheirs

securityman wrote: »

Completed a level 2 in electrical installation for free under the gov train and gain scheme.
The course would have been £1050. I had the money to pay for it untill ask about the t & g scheme that i saw in the local paper a couple of months before.
Just finished the course last friday and i have a job to start tuesday.
Still got to go back for level 3 and i will have to pay, but it helped me get a good job.
The best paid job i have had so far and it is only 8 miles from my house.

Well done. Great news to hear under the current economic climate. Just goes to prove that getting a trade is worthwhile.

gnrblues

could you tell me how you went about getting free training? ..i got made redundant after 7yrs with an electrical company..and desperatly need to get qualified
cheers

securityman

gnrblues wrote: »

could you tell me how you went about getting free training? ..i got made redundant after 7yrs with an electrical company..and desperatly need to get qualified
cheers

If you do not have any nvqs or level 2 in c&g then the gov will pay under the train and gain. Go to your local college and ask.

Just got back from my first day at work after a couple of years of not working.
Had a great day and fill so luck to have not only got a job, but one that i like and that pays better than i have ever had.
Maybe i should change my user name from securityman to electricman.lol

aj2703

THIS IS MY ANSWER COPIED FROM ANOTHER THREAD.

Well i don't know about the rest of the country but here on the Isle Of Wight the goverment according to my JSA advisor has declared it an unemployment diaster zone. This is mainly due to one the biggest employers here shutting down with the loss of 600 jobs. She told me that the goverment have given them a BIG pot of money to do re-training with. I mentioned a plumbing course at a cost of £1k that i wanted to do and she said the money would easily cover it. (Although she wasn't allowed to tell me the exact amount). I asked her about a Microsoft Office Expert course that also appealed and she said it would cover that at a cost of £1,400. She did say however that officially you can't spend more then 15 3/4hrs a week studying, but with courses such as the Microsoft one which is flexibile studying who's to know and if you did get a job you can still study around that. By the way i will be claiming contribution based JSA.