Lyle,
We have a problem over here in NZ, with the training of people at Polytechnics, who want to be chosen, to undertake an Apprenticeship as an Electrician.
The polytechs, being money-driven, have no real entry exams, and the course is not really, what I would call a "fair-idea", of what working in the Industry, is like.
It's more or less, an approach of "bums on seats", which means at the end of the course, we get prospective Apprentices, who cannot read or write properly and only have the most basic of Mathematics skills, not good for a person who needs to use complex Algebraic formulae and Trigonometry.
It's the industry that suffers, in the end.
