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Short Training Courses (10
day consecutive maximum)
In each copy of CJS Weekly there is a small section for advertising short training
courses and training events. These are slotted in as space allows and sometimes we have more courses
that we have space to advertise. All of these courses are listed in an Excel spreadsheet
(link below).
The courses listed online are sub-divided according to content.
Access and Rights of Way
Administrative and Office skills: This includes areas such as software
training; guide to Planning; contract management
skills; budgeting, wildlife legislation, fundraising techniques but not basic skills training
(literacy and numeracy etc.).
Community Engagement and Environmental Education:
That's being trained in how to deliver community events and
environmental education not the actual events themselves
Country Craft Courses This section covers craft courses which can be anything
using traditional skills.
Countryside Management Techniques:
The theory behind the use of the technique, see the Practical Skills
pages for courses in how to apply these techniques.
Courses in environmental (rather than
countryside) skills: Examples include courses on renewable
energy, sustainable development, heating with wood fuel etc.
First Aid, Risk Assessment and other Health & Safety related
courses.
Horticulture and Small Holding:
Practical and theoretical training in gardening, permaculture and small
holding.
Identification and Field Survey
Skills - Mammals: Practical training in how to find and
identify mammals, also training in survey techniques and
classifications.
Identification and Field Survey
skills - Ornithology: Practical training in how to identify
and handle birds, also training in survey techniques and classifications
including ringing licences
Identification and Field Survey
Skills - Plants and Habitats: Practical training in how to
identify higher and lower orders of plants, how to classify vegetation
groups, also survey techniques. This page details courses where a full
habitat is considered.
Identification and Field Survey
Skills - Herpetology, Fish and Invertebrates: Practical
training in how to identify, classify and survey reptiles amphibians,
fish and invertebrates. This is sort of how to ID everything else
not considered above!
Practical Countryside Skills:
Training in the practical aspects of countryside management techniques
such as dry stone walling and hedge laying.
Practical Countryside Skills -
Machinery: Courses on the use and maintenance of machinery,
includes driving courses
Practical Work Days:
Spend a day or more helping to manage an area, conserve a species,
improve habitats and gain experience in the practical skills required.
And don't forget the Events page
Full rolling programme: Click here for the
Excel
spreadsheet (142kb). To search for a specific
course or centre use the usual search (edit>find): Last updated
3/9/10.
Click on the Back button, (top left of your screen?) to
return to this page.
Please note: Many of the event providers have their own website, with more
details than are included here. Several of these are linked to the CJS site, you
will find these addresses (and hyperlinks) on our
Links
page.
And don't forget to have a look at the
CJS Focus These often
have information about training specific to their area of interest. |
