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Horticulture Jobs

By ACS Distance Education on December 15, 2017 in Horticulture & Jobs Success | comments

There are a huge array  opportunities for a career in horticulture.

Horticulture can be divided into two broad themes; amenity and commercial. 

Amenity horticulture is the decorative side of the profession and so involves designing, maintaining, and restoring gardens where people enjoy themselves.  This can include the cultivation of turf for sport. 

Commercial horticulture is the growing of plants for sale.  The plants grown can vary from tropical orchids for cut flowers through to vegetables and fruit.

 

VET Funding Crisis

By ACS Distance Education on December 13, 2017 in Jobs Success | comments

VET's Funding Keeps Falling (from today's Australian newspaper) - Training's share of education spending plummeted by 30% in little over a decade....".

What is the solution?