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Commercial Training

The Commercial Training Department offers a comprehensive range of short accredited and non-accredited training courses. For further details of specific courses, please visit the relevant subject section listed in the 'Our Courses' pages.

Courses include: 

• Animal Welfare and Handling (listed in the Agriculture courses section)
• Food Chain Technology (listed in the Food courses section)
• Chainsaw (listed in the Forestry courses section)
• Machinery and Vehicles (listed in the Engineering and Plant courses section)
• Horticulture
• Landscaping

All of our sessions are offered as public sessions run from our York campus, or where appropriate, they can be run from our Centres at Guisborough, Pickering, Bedale and Thirsk.
Some courses can also be delivered on a bespoke basis at your premises.

If you have a specific training need, please contact the Department on 01904 772200 or e-mail shortcourses@askham-bryan.ac.uk.  We would be happy to assist you with any specific requirement you may have.

Booking is essential
To reserve a place on any course please contact:
Sarah Wickham on 01904 772200 or alternatively contact us by e-mail: shortcourses@askham-bryan.ac.uk.

National Beef Training Centre

The concept for the National Beef Training Centre at Askham Bryan College was developed between the College, Rose County Foods, Dungannon Meat and J Sainsbury’s all of whom were concerned over the lack of any centre or champion to provide guidance for a major national industry.  The aim of the Centre is to provide full and part time courses for both new entrants to the industry and also for current practitioners and to improve the knowledge and skills of individuals working within the beef industry especially in practical areas relating to beef production, butchery techniques and management skills.

The Centre has been developed over the last 12 months at the College’s Westfield Farm and with both the rapid exit milking parlour and the Robotic milking machine offers unique training facilities for learners.

The National Beef Training Centre has been built to house up to 90 head of cattle, with a mixture of dairy crosses and traditional beef breeds to present students with the opportunity to study growth rates of the different breeds and sexes and to determine the cost of production of different animals reared indoors.  The Centre comes complete with handling pens, cattle crush and weighing equipment to facilitate practical hands-on experience for the learners.  To further enhance the training opportunity offered by the National Beef Training Centre the College has a purpose built meat cutting facility where butchery techniques can be developed.

A National Beef Training Centre Steering Committee has been created and has secured membership from the following National Organisations:

English Beef & Lamb Executive – www.eblex.co.uk

Meat & Livestock Commission – www.mlc.org.uk

Genus Breeding – www.supersires.co.uk

Beef Improvement Grouping Ltd – www.bigbeef.co.uk

Beef Processors including Rose County Foods – www.rosecounty.co.uk; Dungannon Meats – www.dungannonmeats.com; Dovecote Park – www.dovecotepark.co.uk

Retailers including J Sainsbury’s www.sainsburys.co.uk; The Co-operative Group – www.co-op.co.uk; and the Learning & Skills Council – www.lsc.gov.uk

The education and training the Centre offers includes the unique BTec National Award in Beef Production – a level 3 qualification tailored to meet the needs of the beef production industry. This qualification can be studied on a part time basis over 1 or 2 years.