Education and Awareness
Professor Karl Ritz
Degrees
NSRI are actively engaged in the delivery and design of world-class Postgraduate Degree-level teaching across a range of topics.
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Professional Training
NSRI are able to offer a broad range of world-class executive short courses and other Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities. Our Cranfield campus in Mid-Bedfordshire is only an hour by train from London and so is well suited for hosting the many environmental and soil-related programmes we offer.
Education and Awareness
There is a growing need and requirement for the development of teaching and learning resources addressing education and awareness of soils-related and wider environmental issues. NSRI’s popular and free-to-access educational web resource www.soil-net.com provides a wealth of stimulating and informative soil resources for school-aged students, their teachers and guardians. Such curriculum-linked resources can be aimed at a range of ages from schools-students and teachers, on to vocational education within the land-based industries. Educational materials can also be provided for other sector stakeholder groups such as agri-business, land resource management and town and country planning. Research is undertaken to establish the effectiveness of such important initiatives, and the alignment of such initiatives to a variety of drivers from school and college curricula to national initiatives and legislation.
Projects:
- Soil-Net.com - an environmental educational web portal for school students and teachers
- Soil Photographic Archive (SoilPIC)
- Soils education for School Students
- Audit of Soils Education and Awareness
- BA National Science and Engineering Week – Soils Awareness event
- Postcards from the Future
- Catchment Sensitive Farming support
- Land suitability for wetland regeneration in NE England
- Forest Residues
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