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RHS General Exam...
Can anybody recomend a correspondance course to do the RHS General
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"Matthew O' Donnell" wrote in message ... Can anybody recomend a correspondance course to do the RHS General Certificate? Thanks Rebecca. Google should find several for you. I don't have personal experience of any of them. Why not try your local Agricultural/Horticultural College? Many offer this as a part time course. A few people who have worked with me have done it this way and found the courses enjoyable and accessible. You should get a bit of practical and perhaps a garden visit or two as well as the classroom stuff. The interaction with tutor and other students is useful and fun. The RHS don't give the certificates away so you will have to do quite a bit of work but you will earn a certificate that means something. Rod |
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"Matthew O' Donnell" wrote in message
... Can anybody recomend a correspondance course to do the RHS General Certificate? Perhaps Learndirect.co.uk will list any. -- AST "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." - Albert Einstein (For success, change 'anti#spam' to 'perigee_apogee') |
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I can highly recommend 'The Horticultural Correspondence College',
Chippenham. Email for a prospectus . They have various courses including RHS General. I have no connection with the college other than being enrolled for some of their courses. Charles (pffl) "Matthew O' Donnell" wrote in message ... Can anybody recomend a correspondance course to do the RHS General Certificate? Thanks Rebecca. |
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Hi there -
I'm currently on the RHS General Certificate in Gardening course. I'm going to our local college, ( not Horticultural ), one morning a week. This is my second year and last year, I went for a whole day. I take the exam in a month so revising like mad!!( or not!) I have thoroughly enjoyed this course but probably gained the most knowledge from the tutors and other course students, not so much the literature and home study. You just cant beat snippets of information that pop up whilst out and about or in the classroom. We have had 2 excellent tutors for the course and we always seem to go off on tangents, discussing so many related issues in broader ways. One of our tutors always related difficult to understand stuff( like botany and the chemical bits), to down to earth practical applications in the real gardening world and that has been an effective way to learn too. All in all, I would never have done this course at home. It obviously depends on your attitude and what you want to get out of it. Gardening is after all a practical, hands on subject and we have done things such as fruit tree pruning in someone's orchard, taking various cuttings from each other's gardens, been to look at lawn-mowers and other machinery, visited Kew, the Seed Bank collection at Wakehurst, Wisley aswell as going to a college allotment and growing a vast selection of veg. and cut flowers on a plot and a polytunnel. My course is spread over a year and a half with the option to take the exam at the end if you want to. everyone in my class is doing the exam and there are 10 of us. Hope that helps and gives you some idea anyway about one way of doing things. Good luck! Regards, Liz. |
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"Rob" wrote in message ... Hi there - I'm currently on the RHS General Certificate in Gardening course. I'm going to our local college, ( not Horticultural ), one morning a week. This is my second year and last year, I went for a whole day. I take the exam in a month so revising like mad!!( or not!) I have thoroughly enjoyed this course but probably gained the most knowledge from the tutors and other course students, not so much the literature and home study. You just cant beat snippets of information that pop up whilst out and about or in the classroom. We have had 2 excellent tutors for the course and we always seem to go off on tangents, discussing so many related issues in broader ways. One of our tutors always related difficult to understand stuff( like botany and the chemical bits), to down to earth practical applications in the real gardening world and that has been an effective way to learn too. All in all, I would never have done this course at home. It obviously depends on your attitude and what you want to get out of it. Gardening is after all a practical, hands on subject and we have done things such as fruit tree pruning in someone's orchard, taking various cuttings from each other's gardens, been to look at lawn-mowers and other machinery, visited Kew, the Seed Bank collection at Wakehurst, Wisley aswell as going to a college allotment and growing a vast selection of veg. and cut flowers on a plot and a polytunnel. My course is spread over a year and a half with the option to take the exam at the end if you want to. everyone in my class is doing the exam and there are 10 of us. Hope that helps and gives you some idea anyway about one way of doing things. Good luck! Regards, Liz. I also did the RHS General at a local college, my experience was very similar to yours Liz, I would recommend it to anyone! Peter --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.456 / Virus Database: 256 - Release Date: 18/02/2003 |
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