Good thought..but it is already in place but not where you would expect to find the classes.
FIRST: Most community colleges are set up to do exactly what you describe. The employer provides the course material. The community college provides the classrooms and sometimes even the instructors. Students pay tuition to the community college and are reimbursed for taking and completing the course. This is where cops, EMTs, waste water operators, DOT truck drivers and many others get trained and skill improved for promotion.
SECOND: Most community colleges and universities have a course named Introduction to Business. Some teach electronic theory and have hands on courses in the hardware. Graduates of these programs move on to professional positions. They probably took the degree programs to avoid being an installer level grunt for a career.
THIRD: Then there is the CATV & SAT model. If you, as a service provider, need cheap installations of your hardware what will you do? How about promise money in payment for completed operations? Get untrained techs to provide vehicles, insurance, materials and their labor. Show them enough to get started. Put them on the street with an installation route. After 90% of the work is done, refuse pay anything for quality reasons. Even better, back charge more than the promised amount and use that money to defray the cost of doing the minor fixes to get your system up.
Good thought!
Joe
Re: A School for contractors?
Member #: 66409
Registered: 2/26/2009
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Name:
joe diamond
Name:
Joe Diamond
Company:
phone & dtv contractor
Occupation:
installer
Location:
east MD
Personal:
late 70s
Experience:
~32 years
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