Leaders of the farming industry have comdemned the Food Standards Agency's (FSA) plans to force the meat sector to pay all the costs of official inspections in meat plants, according the Country Land and Business Association (CLA).
Eigh signatories from organisations including the CLA, NFU and National Federation of Meat and Food Traders say that passing the cost of inspections onto the meat sector will cost the industry up to £...
Harper Adams University College (Newport) has announced that it will increase its annual tuition fees to £9,000 a year from 2012. This follows both the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester and Reading Unversity announcing that they will increase fees from 2012.
Principal David Llewellyn said: “A degree from Harper Adams University College represents an outstanding investment for all of our students at a time when the land...
If you have been following our blog, you will know that I am currently studying a Masters in Rural Estate and Land Management at Harper Adams University College.
My current piece of coursework is to value a ficticious estate close to Market Drayton for lending purposes. The only easy bit is finding comparable evidence (if I can't, no-one will!). The difficulty comes not in doing...
Students have warned that the Government's controversial plan to increase university tuition fees will impact heavily on agricultural students and potentially leave a huge gap in the rurual workforce.
The proposals passed through the House of Lords with little difficulty this week after the opposition failed to overturn last week's vote in the House of Commons.
Under the new proposals universities in England will be able to...
Succession planning is generally recognised as a key aspect in the strategic development of a family owned business. However reports by Smiths Gore, ADAS Consulting and a whole host of other agriculture specialists are raising concerns that there is insufficient focus on succession planning in UK farming family businesses.
Whilst many farmers have planned for the future, there is a growing number who have not made adequate plans...
Those of you following our blog will know that I have started on a Masters Programme in Rural Estate and Land Management at Harper Adams University College.
My first assignment was a critical literature review and the subject I chose was succession planning in owner occupied farming families in the UK - a fairly broad subject to say the least. There is considerable literature available, but much of the research is...
Those of you who regularly read our blog will be aware that I have enrolled on a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Estate and Land Management (REALM) at Harper Adams University College. The course is part time (although it can be done full time in a year) and I have elected to do a module a month for the next few months.
The first module was Reasearch and Information Skills - a bit daunting after so many years out of academia but I...
The team at Barbers Rural is always striving to improve our service to clients and with this in mind I have enrolled on the Postgraduate Diploma in Rural Estate and Land Management at Harper Adams University College.
As a mature student it is quite daunting to be getting back into academic work but so far so good - I managed to get through the first day without too much trauma!. The team at Harper are fantastic and very...
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