Posted By Barrie Etter Five years ago I did a NEBOSH course and totally stuffed it up, so now I'm doing an NVQ Diploma where I'm accredited a unit before progressing further and doing reasonably well at it. The point of this mistle is in the intervening period I've had to do several presentations and looking back they were quite frankly a load of C**p. Time, practice and a 'train the trainer' course more recently has rapidly improved my presenting skills. So do the readers agree / disagree there should be added to the NEBOSH / other similar cousework a teaching element to enable better presentations to be made and get the message across first time? Badger

Posted By Neville Completing a NEBOSH course is hardly a qualification in teaching or training, I would have thought. People who go on to become teachers have got to do a separate course from their main subjects. The 4 day trainers ticket is a qualification but is only the bare bones of the matter. I did the CIPD Learning and Development Level 3, which took the best part of a year to complete (part time) and probably equipped me better, but I was in a primary trainers role whilst doing so.