Landbased education is a term applied to studies that involve things like animal care, the countryside, planting and landscaping, and the environment. To speak of a "landbased college" is simply a way of referring to colleges where they specialise in courses of further education or higher education in subjects like:

• Agriculture.
• Arboriculture and horticulture.
• Aquaculture and fishing.
• Earth and environmental sciences.
• Environmental and rural resource management.
• Forestry.
• Veterinary work.
• Work with animals.
• Food sciences.

It can mean anything from tree surgery to floristry, tourism to farm mechanisation. For specific examples, go to the what to study? page of this site. .For some "landbased" jobs you'll need a degree, and even postgraduate qualifications. These include the science-based jobs like veterinary surgeon, geologist and meteorologist. Other jobs, like veterinary nursing, will need a good group of standard grades and involve doing further study and training. There are courses at many levels in agriculture, horticulture and rural resource management.

Landbased colleges are able to focus on providing a practical experience in education and help to build other skills alongside these. The colleges:

• can be an ideal place to re-enter education and gain skills and confidence to progress to higher education, even if that may be at another place of education
• are moderate-sized, rurally based, environments able to give individual students the support they may need to succeed with their studies
• are able to build on people's interests and passions for animals, plants, the landscape, the food we eat and leisure activities in the outdoor environment.