Decision due on Scottish colleges merger
18 May 2012
Scottish Agricultural College and Scottish land-based colleges Elmwood, Oatridge and Barony are set to merge to combine their expertise.
Writtle College has won a silver award for a Chelsea garden showing visitors to the event including Jerry Hall and Sir Cliff Richard how to grow their own at home.
Scottish Agricultural College and Scottish land-based colleges Elmwood, Oatridge and Barony are set to merge to combine their expertise.
The HTA is developing a framework for its e-learning training programme for ornamentals growers following a successful pilot completed earlier this year.
Sector skills council Lantra has relaunched its website - www.lantra-awards.co.uk - for horticulture employers and staff looking for training and qualifications options.
In this, the careers edition of Horticulture Week, it is only fitting that we should have as the subject of our main interview Des Smith, who landed one of the biggest roles in horticulture when he became head gardener for the Olympic Park gardens two years ago.
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.
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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