ND stands for National Diploma. it will entitle me with my membership to the arb association in the uk the have the title M.Arbor.A. When complete i will be climbing for the company i currently work for with a view to doing a HND (higher national diploma) on-line and continueing to add to the qualifications on my Nptc card - for those uniformed it covers things such as chainsaw maintance, felling and dimantling of trees, dealing with windblown trees, climbing and arial rescue, use of a chain saw in a tree, and whole host of other things from pestercides to ATV's