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  • CAFRE ‘Open Days’ for students

    Date published: 29 September 2016

    The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) invites you to come along to our upcoming October open days to find out about the excellent careers and courses available in the agri-food and land based sectors.

    Checking out the range of courses available at CAFRE are Greenmount students Liam McGrane, from Portadown, Anna Millar and Caroline Power, from Lisburn and Jason Meegan, from Omagh.

    The College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) invites you to come along to our upcoming October open days to find out about the excellent careers and courses available in the agri-food and land based sectors.

    Our open days are timed to coincide with students completing University applications through UCAS and also with the opening of our own further education course applications for students leaving school after taking their GCSEs in June 2017.

    The dates and times for open days across each campus are as follows:

    Loughry Campus open day – Tues 11 October 4pm-9pm

    Loughry Campus in Cookstown provides courses in Food Technology, Food Business Management, Food Design and Nutrition and Postgraduate courses in Business for Agri-food and Rural Enterprise.

    Greenmount Campus open day – Wed 12 October 4pm-9pm

    Greenmount Campus in Antrim is well known as the main provider of courses in Agriculture, Floristry, Horticulture, Land-based Engineering and Veterinary Nursing. If you are interested in any of these subjects, come along to our open day on Wednesday 12 October from 4pm to 9pm.

    Enniskillen Campus open day – Sat 15 October at 12noon

    CAFRE’s Enniskillen campus offers the widest range of equine courses in Ireland. Come along on Saturday 15 October at 12 noon for information on Equine, Farriery and work-based Agriculture programmes.

    All of CAFRE’s courses will prepare you for a successful career in your chosen industry and make extensive use of the excellent teaching and practical facilities at each Campus.

    Thinking college…discover CAFRE and join us at one of our October open days.

    For further information: Tel: 0800 0284291; email: enquiries@cafre.ac.uk or visit our website.

    Notes to editors:

    1. Follow us on Twitter @daera_ni. 
    2. All media enquiries to DAERA Press Office, pressoffice.group@daera-ni.gov.uk or tel: 028 9052 4619.

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