Following the success of providing the Level 2 National Certificate via its innovative Moodle online virtual learning environment – which enables participants to study for the qualification in their own time, or a time set by their employer, at a convenient pace and place – the new Level 3 Advanced National Certificate is offered on a similar flexible learning basis.
Developed by the IOG in conjunction with City & Guilds and NPTC, the Level 3 Advanced National Certificate incorporates eight compulsory units and one optional unit. The mandatory units are:
- Plant physiology in relation to the horticulture industry
- Maintaining health and safety in the amenity horticulture industries
- Management of weeds, pests and diseases
- Turf machinery and equipment management
- Working in the Turf grass industry
- Construction of sports and amenity turf areas
- Sustainable management of turf.
The Level 3 qualification can be accessed by anybody who holds an equivalent Level 2 qualification such as the IOG National Technical Certificate (NTC), City & Guilds NVQ in Sports Turf Maintenance, or by anybody who can prove that they are/have been operating at a Level 3 standard.
Commenting, the IOG’s Head of Professional Services, Ian Lacy, says: “The overwhelming success of offering Level 2 via Moodle – the virtual learning environment pioneered and funded by the IOG – has emphasised why the IOG is the industry’s training and education supplier of choice, and the new Level 3 will further reinforce that.”
Source: Wildish Communications
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