Beekeeping - Beginners

Check out the next course start and enrolment dates via the college website
https://www.bife.ie/morning-and-evening-courses

€120.

This beginners course is open to anyone with an interest in bees or in setting up their own beehive. Some students may already have bees but most of those attending will not. The course will comprise of eight 2-hour classes where you will learn all about the bee, it’s habitat, what you should know before you start plus the ‘Health and Safety’ requirements. Other areas covered include: the equipment needed; colony management; preparing bees for Winter and most importantly how to harvest your honey.

After the classroom sessions you can, by separate arrangement with the tutor, visit their own apiary or beehives in Wexford for more practical demonstrations. (please note for such visits protective gear must be worn and as gear is limited places on the practical demonstrations may also be limited).

Bray Institute of Further Education Conditions of Enrolment.

1. Enrolment may be processed for a friend or relative provided it is with their consent.

2. Formation of Classes: Classes are only formed where numbers warrant it. If not viable, fees may, with students’ consent, be adjusted upwards to suit lower demand.

3. Discipline: The student, on enrolment, subscribes to the regulations and is then bound to observe them.

4. Student property: Responsibility cannot be accepted for loss or damage to the property of students. This includes motor cars, motorcycles and bicycles on the campus.

5. Fees must be paid in full before students enter class and are non-refundable unless a class does not form. Refunds are provided online following cancellation of the class. Fees do not include cost of materials, examination fees or registration with professional institutes where relevant.

6. Transfers may only be negotiated through the Enrolment Centre.

7. The Director of Adult Education reserves the right to close a class or vary its hours if this is deemed necessary based on the needs of the Institution. (see points 2 and 5 above)

8. Smoking: Smoking is prohibited by law in any part of the Centre.

9. BIFE is conveniently situated close to the Main Street in Bray and only 5 minutes walk from the DART Station, and is also served by the following Buses: 45, 45a, 84, 85, 184.

Bray Institute of Further Education,
Novara Ave,
Bray.
Web: www.bife.ie
Email: bifenightschool@kwetb.ie
Tel: 286 6111 / 282 9668