ABC Awards Level 6 Diploma in Arboriculture.

[hokum93]

ABC Awards Level 6 Diploma in Arboriculture. This qualification has been running for 2 years now. Have you or anyone you know achieved this qualification yet?

[Gary Prentice]

ABC Awards Level 6 Diploma in Arboriculture. This qualification has been running for 2 years now. Have you or anyone you know achieved this qualification yet?

 

Six weeks into it, with mattmoss, and it ain't easy

[hokum93]

I have just spent 2 years on it at Moreton Morrel College, Warwickshire and wrote 130,000 words for my portfolio. I took the equivelent of 1 working day a week to write up the learning outcomes. The independent research project was tricky but chose the application of Ginkgo trees as a street tree species adapted to climate change as the subject. My tutor has just applied to ABC for my diploma so awaiting an external verifier to ok the portfolio. I am just wondering if anyone else has completed this Herculian portfolio or whether I will get diploma No. 1? If I can help with sending you samples of my work as a learning aid just ask.

[Pete Hart]

Wow that is some effort! Was it manageable alongside work?

My biggest fear about taking on something like that would be not keeping up with either the coursework or business admin (I'm already terrible at the latter!).

 

 

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[Gary Prentice]

I have just spent 2 years on it at Moreton Morrel College, Warwickshire and wrote 130,000 words for my portfolio. I took the equivelent of 1 working day a week to write up the learning outcomes. The independent research project was tricky but chose the application of Ginkgo trees as a street tree species adapted to climate change as the subject. My tutor has just applied to ABC for my diploma so awaiting an external verifier to ok the portfolio. I am just wondering if anyone else has completed this Herculian portfolio or whether I will get diploma No. 1? If I can help with sending you samples of my work as a learning aid just ask.

 

It's reassuring that someone has managed to compete it, as it is getting overwhelming already. I think 14 learners have just been submitted for external moderation, that's from 4 different venues and probably out of somewhere near forty that started it.

 

One of the learners at our centre came once and quit. I think I'm five weeks in and three weeks behind already. All I'd say to anyone contemplating it, apart from don't, is to not underestimate the time requirements - which are immense. A second year student I spoke to said his normal study time was 2-3 hrs a night and all weekend, every weekend.

[hokum93]

6 of us signed up on year 1. One dropped out after a year. 4 lads have done virtually no work so I am the only one who has completed the whole portfolio. To really do your portfolio justice you need to spend 8-10 hrs a week at writing up reports and learning outcomes. Stick with it lads and stay committed. After a few month you get used to the workload and after completion you feel totally bored as you have nothing to write anymore. I think I might take up a pottery course Ha Ha!

[hokum93]

& with all the commitment of the portfolio, work was where I went to get a rest!

[hokum93]

I am sure that registration with ABC stays open for 5 years so plenty of time to complete things.

[hokum93]

Are you studying this L6 at treelife?