[eye30]

New grading system for instructors - BT

The new system awards driving instructors a simple A or B grade or a fail should their ability not meet the required standard.

All qualified driving instructors have their standards of teaching checked at least once every four years to ensure they deliver the right training to new drivers.

To achieve an A grade, a driving instructor must achieve an 85% pass or higher while the B grade is attained for 60- 79% passes.

Anything below this is a fail and the new system simplifies the previous grades of 1 to 6.

[Dazzler]

To achieve an A grade, a driving instructor must achieve an 85% pass or higher while the B grade is attained for 60- 79% passes.

Seems a bit lenient to me.. Getting that much wrong and still being allowed to be an instructor!! 

[eye30]

To achieve an A grade, a driving instructor must achieve an 85% pass or higher while the B grade is attained for 60- 79% passes.

Seems a bit lenient to me.. Getting that much wrong and still being allowed to be an instructor!! 

I think they are refering to first time pass rate of pupils.  But i may have got this wrong.

Any uk instructors able to confirm?

[AlanHo]

I am not sure what measure is used as a percentage.  Is it the measure of some test or examination the instructor has to take - or is it the percentage of learners he has taught who pass their driving test.

If it is the former - who tests the instructor and by what means

If it is the latter - then it seems a bit inappropriate - such a test would not be fair for some professions. Take doctors for instance. If they were measured on the number of patients who survive - the percentage would be zero - we all snuff it sooner or later.

[Just Rick]

The way I read it that was the testing of instructors qualifications,like Dazz said that is abismal,plus they should be tested on a yearly basis,don't know about over there or over east,but the quality of driving instructors here is horrific,some of the driving practices  I see some of them teaching learners is just wrong,most I have witnessed teaching bad traffic behaviour are mainly of the eastern, Asian persuasion,when I looked into returning to this trade some years ago,all I found out was you had to have had a clean full license for two years,have a police check done,then pass a slighlty harder driving test,both theory and practical,some of the people I see teaching here are a joke.