Beekeeping courses

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UK

NEW COURSE - Train the trainers

A 16-week course designed for women who have some basic experience of handling bees and are trainers of extension workers or farmers, is available at The Agricultural Education and Training 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.

Entry requirements — participants 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 April- 11 August 1991.

For further details contact: Agricultural Education and Training Unit, Wolverhampton Polytechnic, Walsall Campus.

DIPLOMA IN APICULTURE

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: Bee Research Unit, School of Biology, University of Wales, Cardiff.

Fifth International Conference on Apiculture in Tropical Climate

The purpose of this Conference is to advance knowledge of tropical bees and improve and promote beekeeping practised in developing countries.

The Conference is organised for the benefit of the beekeeping and development community, and suggestion: to make it a fully useful and productive event are welcome.

It is not organised as a profit-making exercise, nor as a holiday for beekeepers ( although delegates certainly 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 Proceedings are an important outcome of the Conference which in the long-term disperse the information to many more people.

For Newsletter readers who have never attended one of our Conferences, then I 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.

IBRA, Cardiff.