The Faraday Centre Reviews

The lecturer didn’t assess his audience. 70% of which were not electricians. The course was far too in depth for operations as it was referring to testing for dead in cabinets, HV systems etc. as far as we know, Ops Techs will not be carrying out this type of testing. Lecturer was very pleasant and had a lot of knowledge, way above the understanding of operations requirement.

Great facilities exactly what was needed to gain experience. Lectures didn't seem to want to veer from their script. When asking questions it seemed like a hassle and most the time didnt get a clear answer from Norman. Practical was good equipment but it was so slow going around you never got a full go of isolating and restoring just one or the other. While eddies group seemed to have a full go themselves. More information could be added to the training folders as info seems to be missed that is spoken about on the power points. Coffee/tea and food all good and plenty of breaks to break up the day.

This week is more practical, how ever still didn't learn anything on the relays the lecturer doesn't know how to set the relay timer and when one off the lads asked if he could set it up first and explain how it's done he said "he can't be arsed I only have a week left" he also said that he doesn't know anything about this course cause he never teachers this course and only knows HV and always does the HV course which another lecturer is doing who usually does this course meaning that we where purposely given the wrong lecturer...

The course in parts is not relevant to our day to day work. Large sections were irrelevant and tough to pay attention to. There is also no certification for us to achieve which made the course boring some weeks as there was nothing to attain so hard to keep concentrated. The weekly sections should be shortened and be more tailored to Siemens needs. More fault finding and testing should be included. I also feel the course should be shortened. The instructor Phil, and Dave who we had for a week were excellent and extremely patient given we had little knowledge of electrics before hand. It was a pleasure to be taught by Phil who tried his best to keep things interesting throughout. I suggest the SGRE training department sit on a course to realise how large parts of the course were useless to us.

Knowledgable tutor with lots of experience. The course perhaps could’ve been designed better to deliver the required information.

Norman was a brilliant lecturer but unfortunately it was not the correct course for us. We were expecting an electrical basics course but instead it was a basic HV awareness course. The faraday centre was a good training venue and hopefully next time we can be on a course which suits us better.

I felt like the course wasn’t relevant to what we were needing to learn. Due to our work not involving a lot HV apparatus which is what the course seemed to focus on. I feel a course with more LV testing and fault finding would be better suited for what we need and give us a better understanding of the electrical system we perform maintenance on.

The course was very slides heavy. Needs more variety for 3 days. The course tutor new his stuff and was engaging

Felt like a 1 day course dragged out over a week.

Very poor course content. 90% of module not relevant to our day to day roles