Tulloch PriestCo-founder, Gas Engineer Software · Co-founder of Gas Engineer Software

Tradies throw away something that apprentices need to see

8 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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Tradies throw away broken equipment like failed boiler fans that apprentices never see. Colleges only have photos, so students can't learn to recognize real failures. The fix: donate broken parts to vocational schools so apprentices can actually handle and troubleshoot the components they'll face on the job.

What kind of is the biggest kind of gap that you kind of see between like real world and the colleges?
It sounds silly, but when engineers find a broken part or they go to a breakdown, if they could keep the broken parts and donate it to the college just so the college sort of have like a teaching aid to show the students. For a boiler, for argument's sake, a broken fan, you never see a broken one, you only see photos of broken ones, so it's sort of hard to then go out into the industry and notice those things and work on those things and rectify them.