New Beekeeping Qualification: Lantra Awards

[Dan]

The Lantra course is accredited which means its standards and processes are externally assessed. Thus it can be taught/attended to earn credits, e.g. as a component of a course at an agricultural college. In theory any college can apply to run the course but all you get is the course specification - you have to have the knowledge to develop the teaching programme, exercises, and delivery materials as these are not included.

Whilst the content is very basic, the important principle is that with beekeeping being fashionable it may be a popular module for students who are likely to be the next generation of farmers, estate managers, etc. No bad thing in my book since the privatisation of the agricultural colleges 20 years ago virtually killed off the post of County Beekeeping Lecturer.

For beekeepers, the modules and existing husbandry assessments go into far more detail than this first course does.