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Can’t work in Ireland

lyledunn
A young man from the U.K. with the electrotechnical NVQ L3, 2391 and 18th Edition has been excluded from a job in the Republic of Ireland because their NVQ is said to acquire a level 6 status as indeed does the Scottish NVQ. The NVQ L3 in the U.K. is mapped only to Level 5. The essential criteria for the job was level 6. Believe it or not, the job is nothing other than installing meters for ESB.

anyone know how these qualifications are mapped?
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    Now there’s a surprise.


    I gained with  the City and Guilds Construction Technicians certificate back in the 1970’s, I was told when the NVQs were first introduced I could pay for two interviews at the local tech college and I could be issued with a level four NVQ certificate, which I never got around to doing, so I don’t know how they would be graded now, at the time it was equivalent to an OND, just to add to the confusion ?


    Later on I gained the C&G Design, Erection and Verification of Electrical Installations qualification which was awarded at level three, but since then the course has been upgraded to a level four.


    So in theory I have a qualifications to level four, but in practice they would probably both be graded as three.


    In England, Wales and Northern Ireland I am qualified to QCF 3, which the EU place as EQF 4, but in Eire is it to NQF 5.


    All of this will have to be sorted out when people from the EU apply for UK work permits and vice versa when people from the UK want to work in EU countries such as Eire.


    Andy Betteridge 

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    Now there’s a surprise.


    I gained with  the City and Guilds Construction Technicians certificate back in the 1970’s, I was told when the NVQs were first introduced I could pay for two interviews at the local tech college and I could be issued with a level four NVQ certificate, which I never got around to doing, so I don’t know how they would be graded now, at the time it was equivalent to an OND, just to add to the confusion ?


    Later on I gained the C&G Design, Erection and Verification of Electrical Installations qualification which was awarded at level three, but since then the course has been upgraded to a level four.


    So in theory I have a qualifications to level four, but in practice they would probably both be graded as three.


    In England, Wales and Northern Ireland I am qualified to QCF 3, which the EU place as EQF 4, but in Eire is it to NQF 5.


    All of this will have to be sorted out when people from the EU apply for UK work permits and vice versa when people from the UK want to work in EU countries such as Eire.


    Andy Betteridge 

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