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Guided tour

When I have run wiring regulation courses even though my job description might say lecturer or tutor, I always introduce myself as a guide, hopefully a reasonably well-informed one but a guide nonetheless. My career as a guide has spanned almost thirty years in various institutions and training establishments. Not once in all those years has anyone ever checked the technical correctness of the material I have delivered. It might simply be that candidate failure has been rare and thus no queries were raised but that is less to do with me and more to do with the caliber of the candidates and the relatively low required pass mark.

whilst I am confident of my material, it seems strange that the industry does not feel it necessary to review what the person standing at the front of the class is delivering. 

  • Well, I stood up and spouted long before .ppt. "Next slide please!"


    To some extent in MOD, the attitude was that, you are in such and such a post, therefore we want you to deliver the lecture.


    At other times, I was expected to design a lecture which could be delivered by anybody. I refused.


    Our presentations were subject to "quality assurance".


    But thank you lyledunn, I never thought of myself as a guide, but that is exactly what I aimed to do. ?
  • I recently helped one of our trainees with their university coursework as he was struggling to make sense of some of the questions. [To protect the guilty I won't say which uni it was.] 3 of the 5 questions were missing key pieces of information and were unanswerable. Evidently the lecturer has been using the same questions for some time because they refer to the 17th Edition. So yes, I agree, who is checking up on course content?


    mrf