Anyone or their DH/DS/DD train as an ELECTRICIAN?

[MrsBadger]

Not because I want to ask difficult electrical questions but because I want to ask about routes into the profession...

DH is currently self-employed as an access control installer / consultant (ie he specs and fits swipe card systems, fingerprint scanners etc). Before that he was in the IT side of the same business, managing a technical team, so he has an IT-graduate-management background rather than a traditional trades one.

The thing is, his current business isn't doing too well on the profit front and he's trying to think up an 'exit strategy' that doesn't involve going back to IT or officedom.
His dream job, he told me last night, is to be a self-employed contract electrician and do site work and project management.

However, all the electrician training we could find seem to be 3yr college-based NVQs aimed at 16-19yos with a minimum of three good GCSEs, with apprenticeships only available to the under-25s.

Now, DH isn't expecting free training or special treatment anything, but is there a route that will take into account his 4 A-levels including physics, his IT degree and actual experience?
I mean, you hear on the news about all these graduates training to be plumbers - do any other trades do this?

Anyone?

My dad (age 50) has just qaulified as an electrician but he had to take the 3yr nvq course, evenings.
It was full of spotty teenagers tho who wound my dad up no end as half of them never used to turn up and when then did they worked really slowly and dad got bored.
It was 3yrs of hard work for him but now he's qualified he's so much happier than he was before and if he says its worth it, it can't be that bad...he's a bit of a grumpy old man (sorry dad)