{"id":283,"date":"2011-06-30T14:16:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T13:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rumboldayers.wordpress.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2011-06-30T14:16:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T13:16:02","slug":"oxford-college-of-garden-design-2011-student-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rumbold-ayers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Oxford College of Garden Design 2011 Student Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of overdue errands in Oxford provided the perfect excuse to visit the Oxford College of Garden Design<\/a> 2011 Student Exhibition yesterday.\u00a0 It was a great opportunity to catch up with people I hadn’t seen in a while, and it’s always interesting to see how a new crop of garden designers measure up ;-).<\/p>\n

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2011 Student Exhibition<\/p><\/div>\n

Several students’ work was of an exceptional standard, relative even to the high level that has come to be expected from the OCGD (this is a postgraduate level course, in contrast with most other diploma courses).\u00a0 At the risk of being a bit unfair to her fellow students, my “one to watch” for the future is Sophie Dixon.<\/p>\n

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Duncan Heather and external examiner Vincent Marley (Writtle College) compare notes.<\/p><\/div>\n

Duncan Heather<\/a>, OCGD Principal, is due to take a one year sabbatical from face-to-face teaching, to focus on the new OCGD interactive on-line diploma<\/a> course.\u00a0 The new course, which covers almost all the same material as the traditional classroom version (garden history and the thesis are omitted, as it’s not strictly a postgraduate course), looks like a very practical and cost-effective (but no less intensive) option for those wishing to pursue a career in garden design.\u00a0 The next course starts 30th September 2011.<\/p>\n

(Both Svend Rumbold and Alex Lehne, respectively the founding director and German affiliate of Rumbold-Ayers landscape designers<\/a>, studied under Duncan Heather and graduated from the OCGD PGDip course with distinction.)<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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