The City & Guilds Level 3 Advanced Technical Extended Diploma in Agriculture provides learners with a comprehensive understanding of modern farming. The qualification develops higher-level technical and practical skills alongside the in-depth theoretical knowledge required for progression into skilled employment, higher education or advanced apprenticeships within the agricultural and land-based industries.
Learners gain extensive hands-on experience across livestock, crops, machinery and farm business operations, building the confidence and competence needed to work effectively in professional agricultural settings. The programme prepares students for the demands of a rapidly developing industry by strengthening technical expertise, problem-solving ability and workplace readiness.
This qualification is a two-year full-time programme in which learners study a wide range of advanced modules.
Students gain skills in:
- Safe working practices
- Plant & soil science
- Livestock husbandry
- Crop production
- Machinery operations
- Business skills
- Environmental and habitat management
- Specialist technical pathways (Livestock, Arable or Mechanisation)
Employer involvement and extensive practical elements are required throughout the two-year programme, and learners will be assessed through a combination of written exams, coursework assignments and a synoptic assessment, which brings together both practical and theoretical elements completed under controlled assessment conditions.
To complete the course, learners must also undertake a minimum of 150 work experience hours with an external employer for each academic year.
