Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced Qualifications in Applied HACCP Principles - Royal Instutute of Public Health (RIPH)

NRI is a recognised training and examination centre for the Royal Institute of Public Health.  The courses can be taught either on the Medway campus, or at a food business’s premises.

 

The HACCP approach to quality assurance moves away from testing of the final product, and instead emphasises process and raw material control.  Control is taken out of the laboratory and into the processing environment.  HACCP provides a structured and critical approach to the control of identified hazards.

 

More course details available from Linda Nicolaides (L.Nicolaides@gre.ac.uk).

Innovative Courses in Packaging

NRI is an approved centre with the Packaging Industry Awarding Body Company (PIABC) for delivering the following nationally recognised courses:

• The Certificate in Packaging (Level 3 course)
• The Diploma in Packaging (Level 4 course)

These courses support problem-solving and decision-making associated with the technical and aesthetic performance, cost, safety and legality of packaging materials and packaged products.

 

They have been developed for people, at all levels and in a variety of roles across industry, who wish to develop or extend their knowledge of packaging.

 

The Certificate and Diploma courses can also provide a very useful complementary qualification for those on HNC/D or degree programmes in packaging-related subject areas e.g. product design, food science & technology, materials science & engineering, and logistics.

 

More course details are available here.

Micro-finance for Development

Micro-finance is an influential and fast-growing field in international finance and economics. From its origins in South Asia, it is being adopted in more and more countries across the world – in Europe and the Americas, as well as Africa and East Asia, as a means of creating new businesses and combating poverty in a sustainable way. It works by providing a wide range of financial services to people who have little or nothing in the way of traditional collateral, and thus helping them to build up assets, survive crises, establish small businesses and so on.

 

Now an exciting new post-graduate course has been developed which deals in detail with this vital aspect of finance.

 

More course details are available here.

GM Biosafety Course

Crop plants improved through genetic engineering offer potential benefits to producers and consumers including enhanced agronomic, nutritional and marketing qualities. Although transgenic biotechnology has the potential to benefit agriculture in both the developed and developing world greatly, it also raises important concerns for the farming community and society at large, about the impact of genetically modified organisms on human health and on biodiversity. For developing countries that have established regulatory frameworks and have already granted approval for commercial cultivation of GM crops, the need is for careful monitoring and evaluation of the economic and biological outcomes. For those countries still considering their options, their policy on GM needs to be informed by a careful analysis of the benefits and risks. They require evaluation protocols and an assessment of the capacity required for proper risk analysis, field testing and subsequent monitoring and regulation.

 

This three week course is run by staff based at the Natural Resources Institute and the Law Department of the University of Greenwich to provide independent advice on regulatory issues concerning the introduction of GM plants from Importation, Containment, and Testing to Release.

 

The course goes through knowledge building in these areas followed by case studies to put the knowledge into practice, and highlights suitable strategies to ensure safe and sustainable use of GM crops.

 

For more details contact:

 

Dr Susan Seal: s.e.seal@gre.ac.uk

 

Flyer in PDF Format [PDF 251Kb]

 

Food Safety, Quality Management and Technology

Course	Duration /dates	Fees per person
Food
Intermediate Certificate in Applied HACCP Principles (RIPH)	3 days	£750
Advanced Diploma in Applied HACCP Principles (RIPH)	5 days	£1,400
Internal Auditing of Food Safety and Quality Management Systems	2 days	£400
A Practical Approach to third party auditing	4 days	£950
Supplier Quality Assurance	2 day	£250
Fermentation Technology	3 days	£750
Food Mycology	3 days	£750
Food Safety Management of Dairy Products	2 days	£500
Food Safety Management of Fish and Fishery products	2 days	£500
Food Safety Management of Meat and Meat products	2 days	£500
Loss Assessment for ship surveyors	1 day	£250
Preparation for BRC registration	4 days	£950
Courses from MSc offered as short courses
Carbon Footprinting and Climate Change	5 days	£1,400
Food Chemistry	5 days	£1,400
Food Marketing	5 days	£1,400
Food Microbiology	5 days	£1,400
Food Preservation	5 days	£1,400
Food and Process Development	5 days	£1,400
Food Safety	5 days	£1,400
Food Safety: Fish, Meat and Dairy	5 days	£1,400
Food Safety: Grains, Pulses and Selected Dried Commodities	5 days	£1,400
Food Safety: Horticulture, Roots and Tubers	5 days	£1,400
Food Safety and Quality Management	5 days	£1,400
Food Safety and World Trade	5 days	£1,400
Laboratory Quality Assurance	5 days	£1,400
Molecular Diagnostics for Pathogens	9 days	£3,250
Moulds and Mycotoxins	5 days	£1,400
Official Fish Inspectors Course	5 days	£1,400
Risk Assessment for Agriculture and Environment	5 days	£1,400
Sustainable Pesticide Management	5 days	£1,400
Grains
Pest Management for Tropical Grain Stores**	3 weeks	£3,250
Natural Resources and Environmental Management (provisional)
Agricultural Innovation for Development	2 weeks	£2,000
Aerobiology	3 weeks	£1,500
Climate Change and Ecological Footprinting	2 weeks	£1,500
Conservation Ecology	4 weeks	£2,500
Horticulture
Storage, postharvest handling and transportation of perishable plant produce	2 days	£500
The Technology of fresh produce quality	1 day	£250
The Technology of fruit ripening	1 day	£250
Plant Pathology for the Packhouse	2 days	£500
In addition courses/seminars on the following topics can be provided on request:
Advances in packaging for fresh horticultural produce
Technologies for quality assessment of fresh horticultural produce
Quality assurance for fresh produce from developing countries
Development of ethical trade systems for the fresh produce sector
Techniques of sensory evaluation used to assess consumer preferences
Packaging
The Certificate in Packaging	To be announced (min 64 hours)	£1,250
The Diploma in Packaging Technology	25/04/2007 (min 120 hours)	£1,900
In addition courses/seminars on the following topics can be provided on request:
Introduction to Food Packaging	2 days	£500
Introduction to Modified Atmosphere Packaging	1 day	£250
Packaging and Food Safety	2 days	£500
Packaging and the Environment	2 days	£500
Introduction to Food Canning	2 days	£500
Introduction to Beverage Processing and Packaging	2 days	£500
Introduction to Fish and Seafood Packaging	2 days	£500
Modified Atmosphere Packaging and Fish and Seafood	1 day	£250
Managing Packaging Cost in the Food Supply Chain	1/2 day	£125

 

For further information on course contents, dates and costs, please register and interest by filling in the contact form ([Word 238Kb] or [PDF 232Kb]) and e-mailing NRIcourses@gre.ac.uk or contacting one of the following:

 

Food Safety, Quality Management and Technology	Linda Nicolaides	+44 (0) 1634 883476
Postharvest Horticulture	Debbie Rees	+44 (0) 1634 883522
Packaging	Richard Fuchs	+44 (0) 1634 883480
Natural Resources and Environmental Management	Peter Burt	+44 (0) 1634 883231