Train in garden maintenance with this detailed course
Understanding more about garden maintenance is important for anyone involved in gardening as a professional or an amateur. This flexible qualification enables you to increase your understanding of gardening maintenance in areas that are important to you. Study a core module of Garden Maintenance, then complete a 200 hour research project of an area that interest you. You then complete two 100 hour modules in topics that are of interest to you. Further information of the options is given below.
How the Proficiency Award is Assessed
The Proficiency Award requires 500 hours of study. It is made up of three 100 hour modules and a workplace project.
Modules
Note that each module in the Qualification - Proficiency Award in Garden Maintenance is a short course in its own right, and may be studied separately.
Workplace Project
To complete this qualification, you are also required to complete a workplace project lasting 200 hours. There are 4 options available to you to satisfy this requirement. The options will be different dependent upon whether or not you currently work within the industry. The project can be work experience, voluntary experience, a project you carry out, other training you have already undertaken and there are other options. Don’t worry if you are not sure how to proceed at this stage, as your tutor will be there to discuss how to proceed and help you every step of the way.
If you would like to learn more about garden maintenance as a way to improve your own garden or to help clients, then this is the course for you.