ISHS Acta Horticulturae 350: I International Symposium on Education and Training in Horticulture
PEST CONTROL TEACHING AND TRAINING - CRADLE TO GRAVE? |
| Author: | G.N. Foster |
| Abstract:
Teaching horticultural crop protection has changed in twenty years in the United Kingdom largely because of intensified legislation, in particular the need for most users and suppliers to have Certificates of Competence. Changes can be related more to the BASIS initiative of 1978 than to either the environmental movement or to the publicity associated with organic growing. However, despite the continued dominance of orthodox pesticide use, consideration of alternative forms of control occupy an almost equal place in the curriculum. With the switch to student-centred learning, and other restrictions on formal contact hours, something must have been squeezed out of the system. This loss appears to have been knowledge easily acquired from experience and background reading rather than basic principles; this knowledge is still central to acquisition of the industry-recognised qualification for salesmen and advisers. | |
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