Top industry figures to speak at Green Skills event
11 Mar 2011
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.
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.
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.



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