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Students from Landex member colleges regularly enter, and win, competitions relevant to their vocation? For example, during the past year:
Sparsholt student and staff became the
world foot lock record holder at the ISA Tree
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The Membership
Landex continues to grow.
Thirty-four colleges are full members in England with 8
associate members in the devolved countries (listed below ).
In England, 5 member colleges are in the Higher Education sector, 16 are specialist land based colleges
and 13 are General Further Education colleges that have at
some stage merged with a specialist land based college.
All aspire to match the clear criteria for membership that underpin the ability of Landex Colleges to deliver high quality learning experiences to learners and services to the industries we serve.
Member colleges:
- Share a passion for delivering land based courses that lead to employment and/or enhanced use of leisure time.
- Use a multi-million pound resource that includes over 12,000 hectares of agricultural land, woodland, water and gardens together with state of the art learning and commercial technology to provide real working environments in which to teach and learn.
- Offer a curriculum stretching from new diplomas for 14 year olds through to post graduate study in a huge range of land-based and other subjects including agriculture, horticulture, food processing, engineering, construction, animal management, countryside management.
- Deliver 85% of publicly funded Further Education and 70% of all Higher Education in land based subjects in England.
- Support rural innovation, business incubation, growth and development as well as managing work based learning and bespoke training and continuous professional development for many businesses and their work forces.
- Provide residential provision for a wide range of learners together with the associated social and support services.
- Meet local, regional, national and international market demands for land-based education and training.
- Engage with schools by supporting all stages of the national curriculum, including commitment to the Think Food and Farming and leading many consortia that are delivering the Environment and Land-based new Diploma.
- Participate in a wide range of commercial and education partnerships and delivery contracts including many with world class companies and leading commercial and voluntary sector organizations.
- Enjoy the support of employers and industry bodies and engage them in a wide range of college activity such as governors on College Boards and course monitoring and development.
- Transfer knowledge, through applied research and field trial activity, to staff, students and businesses.
- Respond to the implications that climate change has upon the land use and management agenda through curriculum design, operational activity and industry partnerships.
- Stage many events and open days for the general public and those aspiring to careers in the land based industries.
Member Colleges
You can click on the map button or the postcode to go to Google Maps, where you can select the map or satellite view Associate Members
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