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C&G 2919 EV Charging. What a con.

alanblaby

I've had the misfortune today to do the C&G 2919 course, well actually half of it, as it is a 2 day course, done in one day. £354 inc. vat. 

What did I learn. Very little. I could have passed the exam without any instruction. We were supposed to do a practical, but that wasnt done, "as you all know how to do it anyway". 

Why did I do it? Because I need the C&G 2919 Cert to show I am competent, and being allowed to apply for the Government Grants that are given out to many EV Chargers fitters/householders. 

The design 'projects' were done together by the 9 people there, with mostly the Tutor giving the input, then we all put down the same details in the Assessment form. How is this allowed to happen? The course was conducted so that no one fails before the final 40 question multi choice exam, which was done correctly. 

My cynicism meter has been off the scale today. 

Oh, and it appears that the IET has a counterfeit problem with the Code of Practice, as 3 of us had loose leaf ring bound copies, which the tutor had never seen before.None for sale on the IET site that I can see. I got mine off Amazon.

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    I imagine they have indeed verified that the seller exists, has a UK address and phone no.  or whatever, and is presumably not going to take your money and evaporate.  I can't see how a team of half a dozen folk in Dorset can sensibly verify that all 30k plus  products from those thousand plus vendors are legit however, so I imagine they do not try.

    The particular vendor of that book claims to have an address in Plymouth that  looks very like a flat in a council estate. The “legal name” they give  is not registered with companies house, and I suspect it will have moved in a few days to restart photocopying and binding elsewhere...

    Mike.

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    I imagine they have indeed verified that the seller exists, has a UK address and phone no.  or whatever, and is presumably not going to take your money and evaporate.  I can't see how a team of half a dozen folk in Dorset can sensibly verify that all 30k plus  products from those thousand plus vendors are legit however, so I imagine they do not try.

    The particular vendor of that book claims to have an address in Plymouth that  looks very like a flat in a council estate. The “legal name” they give  is not registered with companies house, and I suspect it will have moved in a few days to restart photocopying and binding elsewhere...

    Mike.

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