Students
CHEMISTRY FOR MEDICINAL HORTICULTURALISTS
Resources
- Extensive glasshouse facilities
- Field nursery stock production
- Computer controlled environmental and irrigation systems
- Fruit and container production units
- Plant propagation centre
- Fully equipped landscape training centre
- Demonstration garden for leading national retailers
- Fully labelled plant collectiopn throughout the College grounds
- 10 acres of landscaped gardens and two National Collections within Broadview Gardens
- Fully commercial garden centre
Typical Employers
Local authorities, nurseries, garden centres, publicly and privately owned gardens, commercial landscaping companies.
Industry Links
Students benefit from a wide range of links with commercial nurseries, research institutes, organic producers, public and privately owned gardens as well as exposure to the retail world through our onsite garden centre. The College is also a member of the Royal Horticultural Society; NCCPG and the Hardy Plant Society.
Introducing horticulturalists to the basic concepts of chemistry, the principles of chemical bonding and intermolecular forces as well as the main groups of secondary compounds.
Entry Requirements A Level 3 qualification or mature student (interview required).
Location
Hadlow
Start Date Daytime: Tuesday 19th January 2010, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Course Duration
1 academic term.
Course Content Credits awarded: 15
Tuition Fee £150