First Nations Institute Australia (FNIA)
Gardening Skills Short Course
Self paced 20-hour course to help you learn essential gardening skills
Gardening can be a lot of fun, a hobby or a job. This course will help you understand the fundamentals of gardening to take the guessing of what you might be doing right or wrong out of the equation. Understand how to ensure your plants receive the optimum growing conditions including nutrition, water, appropriate lighting and pest control.
Without an understanding of the basics though, mistakes are easily made. Time and money can be wasted doing gardening tasks incorrectly, or with the wrong equipment and materials. This short course can be studied in your own time and is great way of learning all of the gardening essentials. This course is a great way of minimising those issues, and creating a better looking, more functional garden.
- If you are a home gardener -be a better one.
- If you work in the garden industry - stop making basic mistakes that are easily avoided.
- A little gardening knowledge can go a long way.
Our 20 hour courses are self paced and will help you understand a topic in a short amount of time. You can work through the course when you like- test yourself with mini-tests along the way. There are extra case studies or research you can undertake if you would really like to get into the topic. Once you have completed the lessons and self assessment tasks, there is a final exam undertaken online- you can then download your personalised certificate.
How does this course work?
You can enrol at any time.
Once you have paid for the course, you will be able to start straight away.
Study when and where you like. Work through at your own pace.
You can download your study-guide to your smart phone, tablet or laptop to read offline.
There are automated self-assessment tests you can complete at the end of each lesson. You can attempt these as many times as you wish and each time, upon completion, you can see your results. You will need internet access to complete the self assessment tests.
At the end of the course, you are presented with a large assessment which can be attempted online, anywhere, anytime. If you achieve a 60% pass in the exam; you immediately receive a downloadable certificate of completion with your name on it.
