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Old 15th August 2015 | 19:36
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Geoffersincornwall
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The effects of commercial pressures.

The problem with up-skilling the instructor workforce is that employers are wary of creating a requirement for skill levels that are expensive to deliver and make the instructors concerned a valuable, highly prized and therefore potentially highly priced commodity. Nevertheless it is essential that we try to achieve exactly that - a corps of highly skilled and experienced trainers.

There is an inbuilt, maybe sub-conscious, desire to have floods of quick-and-easy-to-train TRI's that can be found on every street corner and are cheap to hire.

As Non-PC Plod said, finding someone - anyone! - to fill the billet is not hard but finding the right kind of 'someone' sure is.

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