BEEKEEPING COURSES Please mention this Newsletter as the source of your enquiry. UK NEW COGRSE Train the trainers A 16-week course designed for women who have some basic experience of handling bees and are trainers of exten-—
sion workers or farmers, is available at
The Agricultural Education and Train-
ing Unit of Wolverhampton Polytechnic. This new course follows the well-proven approach of combining technical updating with the development of effective training skills. The course will be based at Wolverhampton Polytechnic with several attachments to other institutions, including IBRA. Aims of the Course: to provide technical updating in beekeeping skills; to practise planning and delivery of training sessions in beekeeping; to develop a training manual to be used for an extension workers’ course; to produce suitable visual aids and resource material for the course; to design monitoring and evaluation methods appropriate for a
beekeeping development programme. — participants Entry requirements should: be actively involved in training
extension workers and farmers; have some practical experience of handling bees; have qualifications recognised by their home government as suitable for a post as extension workers or farmer trainers; be competent in both written and spoken English. Date: The Course will run from 28 April11 August 1991. For further details contact: Agricultural Education and Training Unit, Wolverhampton Polytechnic, Walsall Campus, Gorway Road, Walsall WS1 3BD, dK. Telephone: 0902 323219; Fax: 0922 722099; Telex: 336301 POLWOL G.
DIPLOMA IN APICULTOURE An international diploma course taught within the Bee Research Unit of the University of Wales in Cardiff. This annual course runs from October until July and it intended for those who already have science degrees or appropriate posts in government research or the agricultural industry. For further details contact: Professor R S Pickard, Bee Research Unit, School of Biology, University of Wales, PO Box
915, Cardiff CF1 3TL, UK. Telephone: 0222 874312; Fax: 0222 371921; Telex: 498635 ULIB CFG.
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Fifth International Conference on Apiculture in Tropical Climate Ss The purpose of this Conference is to advance knowledge of tropical bees and improve and promote beekeeping as it is practised in developing countries.
; The Conference is organised for the benefit of the beekeeping and development community, and suggestion: and assistance
to make it a fully useful and productive event are welcome. Ma a haliday far hoalaanare It Is NOL Organised as a promt-making exercis ae
falthaiuah delanatec certainh seem to enjoy
themselves!). We want the Conference to be a worthwhile and useful experience for all delegates. At the Cairo Conference in 1988 we found that many more people had useful information to impart and wanted to give presentations than there was time for: one way around this is by effective use of poster displays. Some delegates thought that the number of talks should be restricted, with no concurrent sessions and more time available for group discussion. It must be remembered however that the published in the long-term disperse the information to many more people. Proceedings are an important outcome of the Conference which For Newsletter readers who have never attended one of our Conferences, then recommend that you start planning now! IBRA cannot provide financial support for your attendance, but at every Conference we have enterprising delegates who have approached local companies and charities for sponsorship to participate. and return the form If you wish to receive further details about the Conference as they become available then please complete |
below.
Nicola Bradbear, Secretary
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Conference Steering Committee.
5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APICULTURE IN TROPICAL CLIMATES, TRINIDAD 1992 Please send me further details Conference as they become available: Name.
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