Bendigo: July 2022, 6 month full time course (4 days per week)
Castlemaine: July 2022 - 12 month part time course (2 days per week)
To achieve the Certificate III in Horticulture you must demonstrate competency in 16 units of competency:
- 5 core units plus
- 11 elective units.
Bendigo - Charleston Road:
This course is offered at the Charleston Road Campus 4 days per week on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays from 9am-4pm.
Our course delivery features a combination of on-campus and remote (online) learning. This flexibility allows our students to continue to study in a safe, guided and supported manner.
Castlemaine:
This course is offered at the Castlemaine Campus as a 12 month part time course, 2 days a week - Tuesdays & Wednesdays from 9am-4pm.
Our course delivery features a combination of on-campus and remote (online) learning. This flexibility allows our students to continue to study in a safe, guided and supported manner. For Castlemaine student this course involves off campus practical classes in Castlemaine and surrounds as well as at our Charleston Road campus.
Due to current COVID-19 restrictions, we have adapted our course delivery to encompass a combination of remote and flexible delivery methods. Our flexible model allows you to continue to study in a safe, guided and fully supported manner with continued access to all learning, personal and wellbeing supports. You will require access to the internet and a computer to undertake this course. Please contact our team for further information.
This course will provide you with the necessary knowledge and skills on which to build a successful career in the horticulture, landscape or parks and gardens sector. Training focuses on practical skills required including: landscape construction methods, plant selection, soils and nutrition, as well as safety with chemicals.
This qualification provides a general vocational outcome in amenity horticulture. It is designed for those wanting to work in the Horticulture industry (school leavers and mature-age career-changes) and those working in industry who want a qualification.
At Bendigo TAFE we provide students with the opportunity to experience a simulated work place in our own horticulture learning facility. Our teachers have a broad range of industry skills and knowledge that they bring to the classroom environment ensuring that students have relevant and current understanding of industry practices.
Our course delivery features a combination of on-campus and remote (online) learning. This flexibility allows our students to continue to study in a safe, guided and supported manner.
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Our course delivery features a combination of on-campus and remote (online) learning. This flexibility allows our students to continue to study in a safe, guided and supported manner.
If you are enrolling in this course as part of a traineeship, you must have employment in the relevant industry before commencing the course.