FAS course rant!!

kkelly77

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I recently contacted my local FAS office to register for an Artic Driving course only to be told there are 86 people on a waiting list for this course. This course commences 30/05/11, takes 7 weeks to complete and can cater for 16 students. With this in mind, it will be February 2012 before I will be eligible to start!! I was also told there are similar waiting lists for the same course in Clonmel, Waterford etc.

Why hasn't FAS made more efforts to provide more instructors, training locations etc if there is such a demand? I would have thought the main national training authority should be at the forefront of providing training/up skilling to the thousands now unemployed and who are eager to get back to work.
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si_guru

I hate to seem negative, but are there really that many jobs available once you have been on the course?

Limerick Bandit

So fas can train 16 artic driver's every 7 weeks from 1 area fair play to fas that's good going

kkelly77

si_guru wrote: »

I hate to seem negative, but are there really that many jobs available once you have been on the course?

I've seen plenty advertised. But by that rationale, are there many jobs available after ANY course provided?

Limerick Bandit wrote: »

So fas can train 16 artic driver's every 7 weeks from 1 area fair play to fas that's good going

Not necessarily so. After my experience with the rigid truck driving course, I know first hand that there is an element of student that just take the course so they can keep their 'paid for' house/apartment. If/when they fail the course, they are pushed back to the top of the list and are eligible to start the next round of training, thus increasing the waiting time for everyone else on the waiting list. :rolleyes:

Faith+1

kkelly77 wrote: »

Not necessarily so. After my experience with the rigid truck driving course, I know first hand that there is an element of student that just take the course so they can keep their 'paid for' house/apartment. If/when they fail the course, they are pushed back to the top of the list and are eligible to start the next round of training, thus increasing the waiting time for everyone else on the waiting list. :rolleyes:

Only in Ireland :mad:

Sardonicat

Started an evening computerised a/cs course with fas last week. None of the computers in the room we were assigned had the accounts package on them and the instructor couldnt guarentee that we would have computers with the package on them this week either!

Farce would be more like it!

Limerick Bandit

kkelly77 wrote: »

Not necessarily so. After my experience with the rigid truck driving course, I know first hand that there is an element of student that just take the course so they can keep their 'paid for' house/apartment. If/when they fail the course, they are pushed back to the top of the list and are eligible to start the next round of training, thus increasing the waiting time for everyone else on the waiting list. :rolleyes:

If they have passed the rigid and are going for the artic then i dont think they are doing it just to keep getting a few quid rent allowance :rolleyes:
Have you asked about doing it with someone else and getting funding

si_guru

@OP... I take your point.

I hope you get on a course soon!

triple-M

hi sorry for dragging up an old thread but does anyone know how long the waiting list is approx for the artic course i was only put on the waiting list about 2 weeks ago and there was no mention of how long i could be waiting.Im in dublin 15 btw

8loopy8

hi i have also been put on this course there are 82ppl in front of me i put down for the dunlaoirge / bray 1 even tho im in ashbourne as they run 2 at a time of 12 ppl per month so must be quicker also the lists in dublin are 118 for tallaght 128 for baldoyle so its mentel waiting times have you done it yet how far down the list are you if not ?

kkelly77

I decided it was too long to wait for training so I started back in 3rd level education instead.

Best of luck to anyone who has the patience to wait for a place on the course.

Roquentin

does anyone know whether they do an artic course in limerick/cork? Someone said clonmel, is that still going on?

B.A._Baracus

Current listings only show "Heavy Goods Vehicle Driving (HGV) - Artic" courses in Dublin, Waterford & Wexford.

Roquentin

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Current listings only show "Heavy Goods Vehicle Driving (HGV) - Artic" courses in Dublin, Waterford & Wexford.

does that mean they are only doing it those places or that other places will pop up in the future?

B.A._Baracus

Roquentin wrote: »

does that mean they are only doing it those places or that other places will pop up in the future?

In my experience with FAS, take the listings as they are. They've changed things up in the last 6-12 months. As FAS was being rebranded as Solas.
Some courses have totally been removed from Dublin areas. Such as the Fork Lift course. Now only FAS centres down the country do them. Only an example but you get the idea.

Roquentin

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

In my experience with FAS, take the listings as they are. They've changed things up in the last 6-12 months. As FAS was being rebranded as Solas.
Some courses have totally been removed from Dublin areas. Such as the Fork Lift course. Now only FAS centres down the country do them. Only an example but you get the idea.

damn. i was sure i saw maybe 9 months ago an artic course in cork which would be down the road. Probably will have to go to waterford now. Ah well, wont worry