Mark Duffell knowledge and practical experience of plants always make his courses worthwhile attending. I knew little of this group of plants before I attended but now feel not only more knowledgeable about the whole group but also have some confidence about how to identify one from another using the…
Excellent course and extremely enjoyable. A good mixture of classroom sessions and outdoor work where you are able to get close to mammals. Very knowledgeable and enthusiastic tutor who in my opinion went over and above her role. I have never seen so many teaching props! Very useful and made…
Excellent tutor. Enthusiastic, extremely knowledgable. Generous with his time, expertise and very considerable resources including library and invertebrate collection and field equipment. FSC Lab equipment was limiting – old microscopes, needed to share LED light stands.
Two excellent and enthusiastic tutors. Ambitious and enjoyable range of material. Good availability of text books. Loads of work went into the preparation with lots of specimen plants to ID. Thank you.
Competent and hard-working tutor. Old microscopes. Poor teacher pupil ratio of 1:14. Some of the moss samples we were given were very small (a lot of pupils). I had one unbranched piece of a pleurocarp which made it impossibe to ID. The course in late Apri with subsequent field assignment…
Brilliant course, exceeded expectations. Dave is an expert and has perfected the course, wouldn’t change a thing.
Be agile, sure-footed, not need loo. Intensive 6-day instruction in the geology of South Devon, its botany and marine life. Be at least versed in one of the three topics. Virtually no lab work ie no microscope or follow-up sessions. A really solid field-trip based sequence of sessions. Be prepared…
Excellent tutor – very intensive, interesting course. Shame no one read my husband’s health requirements form. He requested cheese and biscuits or yoghurt as an alternative to stodgy puddings as he controls his diabetes by diet so tries to keep his carbohydrate intake low. The kitchen staff didn’t seem to…
Excellent again, just like last year. The food was lovely and the staff were really great too.