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The future of the ADI
By CDT on May 22, 2011 with Comments 2
Are you a qualified ADI, who may never have taken any further qualifications? Have you been toying with the idea of CPD or are opposed to the imposition of CPD? Or have you been building your personal portfolio of qualifications?
Whichever group you fit into, changes are on their way. CPD may never be compulsory in the format that we had previously been led to believe would be introduced, but, it will be here and to stay within the driver training industry you will have to add to your qualifications, having a successful check test will not be enough. Check testing will remain, as it is a legal requirement to keep a green badge, but the research has shown that to reduce death amongst 17 – 25 year old drivers, the instructor or trainer needs to be better qualified.
This is hardly a surprise, as up until now, it has not been necessary for a trainer to keep up to date with changes within the industry, nor to update their skills, offer quality assurance, or understand eco-driving. The future of the ADI is changing, along with the future of leisure driving for all. The skills maintanence of full licence holders, will become a stautory requirement, but if the trainer doesn’t have better skills, proven with certification, then they will be unable to deliver this training.
The future of ORDIT has come into question too, meaning that previously registered, well established companies have refrained from renewal. As a new registration will have a new name and format and therefore there will be no grandfather rights as previously thought. The new scheme may offer certification for 5 years, this however is not finalised and is just a proposal from certain groups.
Filed Under: Driving
That all sounds marvellous and to cut deaths on the road make instructors do more qualifications sounds about right ……er what about the mummies and daddies etc that are teaaching young people to drive as cheaply as possible with very often only bothering to put one L plate on and even rarer an interior mirror, heaven forbid they might look back to see whats happening.
I suppose its easier to regulate and crush us into demoralisation than some one with no training and 3 and a half years driving experience.
I know it sounds negative but its always the instructor that gets the blame, for poor standards on the roads ,death rates and so on.
If the government were serious about it, they would only allow an ADI to teach driving it is after all our job and if the insurance companies had a conscience they wouldn’t allow it either, instead they choose to over charge premiums. but thats another day.
I do take your point jim but surely if these poorly trained kids are getting through their tests then surely the whole examination process has to come into question?