The B.E.S.T. in Horticulture Group

City & Guilds NPTC

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City & Guilds NPTC

The land-based sector underpins some of the UK’s most essential industries, supporting safe practice, environmental stewardship, and skilled professional careers.

By uniting the deep-rooted strengths of NPTC and City & Guilds in skills development and land-based certification, they  offer a complete portfolio of qualifications, licences to practise, and CPD that supports entry into the sector, ongoing competence, and career-long development.

NPTC by City & Guilds brings together expertise across the full land-based learner journey, supporting training providers, employers, and industry to deliver high-quality learning, assessment, and professional development.”

All the Certificate of Competence (CoC) qualifications that we B.E.S.T. in Horticulture Education Limited offer are; delivered by very experienced trainers and assessed by qualified City & Guilds NPTC assessors who meet the following requirements:

  • show competence and provide evidence of industry expertise in the qualification/s they wish to assess
  • hold the qualification as a candidate and have been technically evaluated as an Assessor
  • be up to date with their verification and relevant first aid
  • demonstrate continuing technically relevant CPD

For further information visit the City & Guilds NPTC website:

https://www.nptc.org.uk/