London College of Garden Design (LCGD) diploma to be taught at Kew Gardens
30 Mar 2011
London College of Garden Design (LCGD) diploma will be taught at Kew Gardens from September 2011.
Top horticulture students are concerned that they are seeing a jobs climate that is becoming more skewed towards well-off entrants and wealthy employers.
London College of Garden Design (LCGD) diploma will be taught at Kew Gardens from September 2011.
The Garden Design School is offering a series of taster days for its one-year diploma starting in September.
A grower who has worked at The Co-operative's farm in Goole, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, for 65 years has been given a long-service award by managing director Christine Tacon.
Big changes to garden traineeships are expected as the Historic & Botanic Gardens Bursary Scheme's (HBGBS) funding runs out after the forthcoming intake of students. The National Trust is also rethinking its decade-old Careership programme.
The annual Green Skills seminar - backed by a wide range of industry bodies - will take place at the RHS Horticultural Halls in London on 6 April.
Scottish horticulturists were among those awarded at the recent Lantra Land-based and Aquaculture Learner of the Year Awards.
The European Federation of Interior Landscaping Industries (EFIG) will highlight indoor planting as a way of reducing workplace absenteeism at the Landscape Show in April.
Horticulture courses in Scotland are feeling the consequences of the Scottish Budget Bill 2011, passed by ministers last month, which brings a 10.4 per cent cut in funding for universities and colleges in 2011-12.
Horticultural colleges in England remain deeply concerned about the loss of the education maintenance allowance, which will hit their students hard.


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