| Education
Could you be the next
chapter in Hartpury’s
success story?
With Hartpury’s stunning 360-hectare estate as your
classroom, including our own Home Farm, and 100% of
our agriculture students finding work after their studies,
we can help you open the door to your dream career;
whether that’s getting hands on with agricultural
machinery as an engineer, being a gamekeeper or
diversifying on your family farm.
e offer a range of
vocational
qualifications, from
Diplomas in
Agriculture, Landbased
Mechanisation, Agricultural
Engineering and Countryside
Management (Game) to
agricultural apprenticeships. And
new for September 2017, we’re
launching a new Honours degree
in Agriculture (subject to
validation) with opportunities to
study abroad in the USA, New
Zealand, Canada or Australia, to
gain a wealth of practical and work
experience, to benefit from the
extensive commercial activities on
and off site and to develop
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groundbreaking research while
working in the industry.
Our students have gone on to
become farm and estate
managers, agronomists,
agricultural advisors, sales
managers and lecturers, while
others have set up really
successful businesses. Take
Hartpury graduates Tom Mitchell
and Aimee Parry for example, who
run the Happy Goat Company;
breeding and rearing more than
100 goats to produce top quality
goat meat, including burgers,
sausages and the very popular
new goat, apricot and almond
tagine. Supplying pubs,
restaurants and farmers’ markets
but also selling on the internet and
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at the farm gates, Tom and
Aimee’s business is continuing to
grow.
If your dream job is working
with animals, in the great outdoors
or in the sports industry, Hartpury
also offers qualifications in sport,
equine, outdoor adventure and
uniformed public services at both
College and University Centre
level.
There’s still limited availability
on some courses for September
2016. Contact
[email protected] to
discuss the options, or discover
your future at
www.hartpury.ac.uk
NSC hosts Finnish
students in Erasmus
Exchange
North Shropshire College’s (NSC) Walford Campus has
played host to students from Finland for four weeks.
SC has welcomed
Hanna, Pinja and
Salla from
Koulutuskeskus
Vocational
Education Centre
in Finland. The students have
worked with the Walford Farm
Manager, Richard Aldis and local
farmer Roger Tomley in Oswestry.
Also they got to live a day in the
life of a agriculture student and
learn about the local farming
history, as well as having hands on
experience.
The visit was organised by the
Enterprise and Development Team
at NSC, who have been working
closely with their equals in Finland
to create an enriched and
informative visit for the students at
the College and in the UK. Bev
Parry, event organiser, commented
“Hanna, Pinja and Salla all
enjoyed their stay in England and
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were able to experience the
farming culture of the UK.”
In September 2016 14 of NSC’s
very own students, including
agriculture students and
apprentices, will be travelling to
Finland to stay with local farmers,
with the aim of the trip being to
experience farming the Finnish
way. This visit is one of many that
NSC students have been able to
access in recent years, thanks to
the Erasmus+ Programme.
European funding is used to
support students from different
areas of curriculum, to experience
cultures and work placements
abroad for two weeks.
For more information on the
Erasmus+ programme or
Enterprise and Development,
please visit our website
www.nsc.ac.uk or call Bev Parry
on 01939 262154.
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