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In the case of medical schools, it is controlled by the AMA. For electrician schools, it is the unions. Both seek to keep wages high and the only way to do that is to gatekeep the credential process. Remember those that teach at these schools are doctors and electricians that benefited from the controlled system. It is the reason programmers will never have a union and accrediting agency because corporations want wag…
For electrician schools, it's funding and personnel (read: funding). An electrician is doing hands on stuff in a lot of labs. That limits the student to teacher ratio that can be sustained. So, you'd need a lot more teachers who are already certified as electricians to come teach. Are you paying them enough to get them to come teach as opposed to work or manage? (LOL--teachers always get paid absolute dogshit). After…
Re: America Is Trying to Electrify. There Aren’t Enough Electricians
#21That actually is about the average salary for electricians in Australia (though I would imagine not for those just starting out). And we still have a shortage, reportedly due to not enough students enrolling into apprenticeships.