City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 3
City and Guilds of London Institute Level 3 Diploma in Sporting Estate Management
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits57
- Guided learning410 hours
- Units in this qualification24
Awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
The NPTC Level 3 Diploma in Work-based Game and Wildlife Management offers a programme of work-based training and assessment leading to a nationally recognised qualification, aimed at meeting the needs of those working or wanting to work in the Gamekeeping and Wildlife sector.
These are the units City and Guilds of London Institute registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Contribute to heather management planningReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to heather management planning,
Contribute to the development of a deer management planReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to deer management planning
Contribute to the prevention of rural crime on a sporting estateReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop procedures to prevent rural crime
Control heather management operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Control heather burning operations
Deliver reliable customer serviceReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and organise customer interactions effectively
Design individual training programmes for animalsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Assess individual training needs
Develop an estate’s sporting planReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a sporting plan
Develop good public relations for a sporting estateReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Develop public relations materials
- Maintain public relations in support of sporting activities
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practices
- Maintain accurate records
- Understand how and why public relations are important
Evaluate and improve training programmes which enable animals to achieve specific objectivesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate training results and modify them
Implement individual training programmes for animalsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Adapt training methods as per the animal's response
Manage fertile game egg productionReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Manage the breeding and production of game eggs
Manage game habitatReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Define and manage game habitats
Manage the incubation of gamebird eggsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and manage incubation processes
Manage the production of dead game for human consumptionReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Control the production of game meat for human consumption
- Promote health, safety, hygiene and environmental good practices
Manage the production of reared gamebirdsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Manage the rearing of gamebirds
Manage wild game populationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Implement management plans for wild game populations
Monitor and evaluate the construction and maintenance of structures and surfacesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor and evaluate maintenance plans
Plan and organise the release of gamebirdsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Implement gamebird release strategies
Plan the construction and maintenance of structures and surfacesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the construction and maintenance of structures and surfaces
Prepare deer for human consumptionReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Manage deer transportation and storage
Promote, monitor and maintain health, safety and security of the workplaceReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to monitor and maintain health, safety and security of the workplace
Repair and maintain structures or surfacesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for repair and maintenance of structures,
Stalk and cull deerReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Stalk and cull deer safely and effectively
Support the organisation and implementation of game shooting programmesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Organise game shooting programmes
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Every credit is a stamp you keep
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Carry out prescribed burning as part of vegetation management
- Develop a game and wildlife habitat management plan
- Develop a game and wildlife management plan
- Implement and monitor a game and wildlife habitat management plan
- Implement and monitor a game and wildlife management plan
- Implement and monitor a game management plan
- Maintain and improve game and wildlife habitat
- Manage Security for a Wildlife Management Area Legacy
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your own work
Learn how to manage heather habitat effectively to foster wildlife sustainability.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for City and Guilds of London Institute Level 3 Diploma in Sporting Estate Management
24 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.
- Contribute to heather management planning
- Contribute to the development of a deer management plan
- Contribute to the prevention of rural crime on a sporting estate
- Control heather management operations
- Deliver reliable customer service
- Design individual training programmes for animals
and 18 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
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Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
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- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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