The Advanced Course

The Board also organises an Advanced Beekeeping Course covering certain parts of the syllabus which cannot be covered by independent study and which is normally restricted to 12 students. In its early days, this five day course ran at Sparsholt, the Hampshire College of Agriculture, later moving to Hartpury, the Gloucestershire College of Agriculture.

Students in the laboratory

Since 1999 the Course has been housed in the prestigious M.A.F.F. Central Science Laboratory, near York, this move having fulfilled all expectations. This has enabled students to work and study within the first class facilities of the National Bee Unit and to bridge the gap between the Senior awards and the requirements for the National Diploma Examination.

The visiting lecturers are all leading figures in their particular aspect of apiculture. The experience over the past few years, is that the great need for most students is to handle bees, in depth, and in other people’s apiaries and to work with appropriate speed and confidence.

Fieldwork

The 2008 Advanced Course will be held at the Central Science Laboratory, York, between Monday 7 July and Friday 11 July. Please follow this link for details of the 2008 course.

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Updated 3 March 2008