News January 2009

  • Competition success for CAFRE’s Greenmount Florists
    Two of our talented young florists were delighted to be placed first and second in the Northern Ireland regional heat of the RHS Chelsea Young Florist of the Year Competition, held recently at the British Florist Association Hub Meeting
  • Nutrition Awareness at Loughry
    With the increasing emphasis on the impact of food on our health the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) invited a number of schools pupils to a nutrition awareness training workshop at Loughry Campus.
  • Loughry Communication students celebrate at Queen’s winter graduation
    The Queen’s winter graduation ceremony was the culmination of a special year for the students studying communication programmes at Loughry Campus, CAFRE with one student receiving her PhD and fourteen students picking up their MSc awards.
  • Uplands Update
    Applied, practical and relevant to the needs of the industry are the attributes of CAFRE’s higher level education agriculture programmes. Students on the HND Agriculture course and the BSc Agriculture Technology programme (jointly delivered with Queen’s University Belfast) selected the UPLANDS option