I had the luxury of having regs and laws rammed down my throat with working in the industrial sector, as for scaffolding i learnt of a lot of the old ones, if this course had not been funded, i could not have afforded to pay for for it myself, to many young scaffs have the use of computers and can piss the theory, but cant base a job out, but in 2 years they are waving there gold card at you, in the pub tonite and couple of scaffs for Alltasks, were so shocked that i was a trainee, you cant beat the system, but it should be better, have assessors come and watch you on site, and then like the touch screen, do your theory, on bay sizes, min and max overhang on boards, TG20.08, SG4.10, etc etc, the works. you have guys 40 + going to school when theres no need.