Have any of you actually seen the quality of the candidates coming out of colleges and universities these days?
As an example look at
Eastwood Park, entry requirements are GCSE's and experience of work in medical equipment field. But that experience doesn't guarantee a level of electronics knowledge and the engineering science is limited to a 30 credit module. Therefore how ever excellent the Eastwood park training courses are you can still get people coming out who don't have the basics in electrical/electronics.
It's similar in other colleges and universities and the favourite is usually Mechtronics courses. (although there are still good courses out there) Either they don't teach the practical skills like soldering or they go too practical and don't teach the fundamentals of engineering.
So Geoff it's often the case that even the "rogue" biomed is like the proverbial rocking horse doovers and thus what might have got you sacked in the past won't in the present climate.
