Stretch the budget with free training

In these days of tight budgets and organisations trying to do more with less, it’s good to see some free training on offer. Advanced Professional Training (APT) in Bioscience is a new range of accredited training courses from Swansea University for people working in any bioscience related field, such as environmental management or ecology.

Current courses include:

Understanding protected species (including bat, invertebrate, terrestrial mammals, reptiles and amphibian modules)

• Introduction to wild plant identification
• Techniques in ecology
• Invasive plants: identification, ecology and control.

 Also on offer are lab-based training modules to help with scientific report writing, microscopy skills and other essential laboratory skills.

For a full list of courses offered by APT bioscience, please see http://www.swan.ac.uk/aptbioscience/courses/ or contact Dr Neil Price d.n.price@swansea.ac.uk (01792) 295379