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.
Kent College secures grower sponsors for three-year management apprenticeship programme
Scottish Agricultural College and Scottish land-based colleges Elmwood, Oatridge and Barony are set to merge to combine their expertise.
Local school children in Kent lent a hand in turning apples into apple juice at the Living Land event held at the Kent Showground in Detling earlier this month (9 May).
Sector skills council Lantra has relaunched its website - www.lantra-awards.co.uk - for horticulture employers and staff looking for training and qualifications options.
Two vegetable suppliers took healthy-eating message to Lincolnshire primary schools last week.
Plumpton College in East Sussex has cancelled its open day on Saturday 12 May 2012 because car parking fields are too wet.
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.
Coventry University has launched a masters course in food security management that will begin in September.
Society sets sights on curriculum inclusion after survey finds lack of horticulture career promotion.
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