Lantra website aims to benefit employers and learners
11 May 2012
Sector skills council Lantra has relaunched its website - www.lantra-awards.co.uk - for horticulture employers and staff looking for training and qualifications options.
The buoyant production horticulture and retail sectors offer a wealth of opportunities for keen individuals, Graham Clarke explains.
Sector skills council Lantra has relaunched its website - www.lantra-awards.co.uk - for horticulture employers and staff looking for training and qualifications options.
Plumpton College in East Sussex has cancelled its open day on Saturday 12 May 2012 because car parking fields are too wet.
Pershore College's Douglas Mackay won the Institute of Horticulture's Young Horticulturist of the Year competition at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh on 5 May.
The HTA is advertising for a new director general with the closing date for applications on 25 May.
International retail consultant John Stanley has envisaged an 'end of the salesperson' scenario in garden centres.
Better marketing and communication of horticultural job opportunities emerge as key targets from speakers at RHS event.
A recent survey by the RHS showed that 70 per cent of 18-year-olds do not think that horticulture is a career of which to be proud, while warning that there is a "looming skills crisis" in the sector, which has vacancies that it cannot fill. Conference attendees gave their views on how to get more young...
Stylist magazine is looking for female entrepreneurs and speakers for the next Stylist Network event on 20 June.
Every school should be required by the government to employ a professional horticulturalist, a Royal Horticultural Society careers conference heard last week.
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