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A recent chat with an experienced workshop manager revealed that his biggest Fear was being unable to continue to find useful employees His company had recently cancelled its apprenticeship scheme—a decision baserl primarily on financial grounds. How sad. Training a technician From scratch requires an investment of money and time but the increasing tendency these days is for the individual, once qualified, to move on to greener, more lucrative pastures. So why should companies continue to bother with lengthy and expensive, inhouse training programmes? If they don't, the workforce and the mechanical hardware will be set upon rapidly diverging paths to oblivion. Technicians should be familiar with the present advances but must also possess a thorough grounding in engineering theory and practice— only achievable from a traditional apprenticeship. No amoun of computeraided diagnostics will ever help with stripping a 16speed splitter.
Chris Graham
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