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Outstanding results for land and environment students
Plumpton College goes from strength to strength, with an increasing number of students achieving the highest grades possible.
Plumpton College demonstrates STEM in the land and environment sector at the South of England Show 2021
Plumpton College are delighted to be back at the South of England Show this year, after a break due to Covid 19 in 2020.
Category: College News
Farm Manager at Plumpton College wins Young Sussex Farmer of the Year Award
Plumpton College is pleased to announce that Daniel Hird, college Farm Manager, has won the prestigious Young Sussex Farmer of the Year Award for the first time.
Categories: College News, Agriculture
Where can our FdSc Animal Behaviour and Conservation course take you?
Hear from Ellie, a former FdSc Animal Behaviour and Conservation student at Plumpton College. Find out what Ellie enjoyed and what really helped her land her current role as a Supervisor at Middle Farm, leading the Open Farm Team.
Category: Animal Management
Evaluation of Strategies for Online Learning Implementation in Further Education
Read the full report, led by Plumpton College on how we rapidly moved to online learning at the start of the covid-19 pandemic in March 2020.
College celebrates walled garden restoration
FIVE YEAR RESTORATION PROJECT OPENS GATES AS NEW DESTINATION WALLED GARDEN
Category: College News
Recruit an Apprentice Funding Extended
The measures announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in the recent Budget 2021 has brought further good news to employers who are looking to grow their work force and enrol them onto an apprenticeship programme.
Funding puts One Market at One Garden Brighton on the map
With the exciting opening of One Garden Brighton at the end of March 2021, Plumpton College is delighted that funding from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development has been used to set up the new One Market shop.
Working within the Adventure Sport Industry
Hear from Nick, the Centre Manager at Hove Lagoon Water sports, for more on what it takes to work within the Adventure Education industry and how studying the Adventure Education Level 3 Course allowed him to love his job he is in today.
Category: Adventure Education
Royal Agricultural University degree finds new home at Plumpton College
The highly successful Royal Agricultural University (RAU)-validated BSc (Hons) Veterinary Physiotherapy programme will have a new base from September 2021.
Categories: Animal Management, Veterinary
Learn more about our history
Since the original 400-acre College farm was bought back in 1919, Plumpton College has certainly seen a lot of changes.
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