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Scottish Govt to regulate "electrician" description

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Currently anyone can call themselves an electrician, without the need for any qualifications or competency.

The Scottish Government is gathering information and views on whether regulations should be introduced in relation to electricians. While the focus of the consultation is on domestic work carried out for individual consumers, it will also apply to commercial and industrial work.

https://consult.gov.scot/energy-and-climate-change-directorate/a-consultation-on-the-regulation-of-electricians/
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    Also Wikipedia is mainly edited by Americans, whose idea of degree level qualifications is very different to ours, and also I suspect  their route for folk coming in to trades will be similarly different.


    In the UK Engineer is not a protected title either -  there is no entrance exam or thesis to submit, nor penalty for sticking the word Engineer after your name at random. Much as you can put Professor in your title if you run a Punch and Judy booth yes really. So there is a plethora of self-titling  engineers who are really working as gas boiler installers or repair technicians of washing machines.


    The suggested text for electricians might apply for the UK, I suspect  not many places elsewhere. If it is important enough it may be better to follow the route of things like medicine and dentistry, and have exams, maybe with only a few places offering approved courses that lead to that. However, I very much doubt if it is worth it,  given we cannot even manage such a registration system for the far smaller pool of professional engineers (or even the very small pool of 'real' professors...  there really are more of the Punch and Judy kind.).


    regards

    Mike


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    Also Wikipedia is mainly edited by Americans, whose idea of degree level qualifications is very different to ours, and also I suspect  their route for folk coming in to trades will be similarly different.


    In the UK Engineer is not a protected title either -  there is no entrance exam or thesis to submit, nor penalty for sticking the word Engineer after your name at random. Much as you can put Professor in your title if you run a Punch and Judy booth yes really. So there is a plethora of self-titling  engineers who are really working as gas boiler installers or repair technicians of washing machines.


    The suggested text for electricians might apply for the UK, I suspect  not many places elsewhere. If it is important enough it may be better to follow the route of things like medicine and dentistry, and have exams, maybe with only a few places offering approved courses that lead to that. However, I very much doubt if it is worth it,  given we cannot even manage such a registration system for the far smaller pool of professional engineers (or even the very small pool of 'real' professors...  there really are more of the Punch and Judy kind.).


    regards

    Mike


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