Trainee gardener Fiona Braithwaite has scooped a City & Guilds medal for excellence award in recognition of her work in the land-based sector.
A job club for unemployed horticulturists has opened to help local people get into work. The Swanley & Northern Parishes Job Club is an informal group including three horticulturists looking for work.
Growers are being advised by the Metaldehyde Stewardship Group (MSG) that there is still time to take the classroom-based Slug Pelleting Seminar (SPS) to update their knowledge of best practice in slug pellet use before the PA4 granular application certifications are revoked this June.
The Government has confirmed that employers will no longer be able to force staff to retire at 65. The change comes into effect from October.
The former Peter Seabrook Scholar Award winner gave the first of the James Hearsham lectures at Writtle College last week.
There are 19 full-time paid posts available this year throughout the UK under the Historic & Botanic Garden Bursary Scheme (HBGBS).
Eight colleges from across the UK have been selected to enter the first Ideal Home Show Young Gardeners of the Year competition, in association with the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment.
Kirklees Council in West Yorkshire is celebrating the success of its first horticulture apprenticeship scheme, launched in partnership with Bishop Burton College two years ago to attract young people to the industry.
The Institute of Horticulture (IoH) is calling for entries to the 2011 Young Horticulturist of the Year competition.
Capel Manor College has been praised by Gristwood & Toms founder Dave Gristwood for properly preparing students for arboriculture careers. He said the college's independent assessment centre made students "more attractive" to hire. The college's business development manager Linda Hope said it was a...
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