The Agriculture, Environmental and Animal Care T Level contains two Technical Qualifications: Animal Care & Management, and Agriculture, Land Management & Production.
Learners who take either of the qualifications will complete the same Common Core content, which includes topics such as health & safety, sustainability, ethics, business management, professional responsibilities, attitudes and behaviours.
Learners will then study a Core Pathway which leads to an Occupational Specialism.
Within the Animal Care & Management Technical Qualification, topics covered in the core pathways and occupational specialisms include:
- Animal Management & Behaviour: Anatomy and physiology, animal health, animal biology, nutrition, animal behaviour, communication and training, animal husbandry, animal welfare and conservation.
- Animal Management & Science: Anatomy and physiology, cells and tissues, nutrition, animal behaviour, research methods, genetics, evolution, conservation, animal welfare, animal health, animal husbandry, laboratory skills, microbiology and biochemistry.
Within the Agriculture, Land Management & Production Technical Qualification, topics covered in the core pathways and occupational specialisms include:
- Livestock production: biosecurity, anatomy and physiology, diseases and disorders, nutrition, animal health, animal breeding and production, managing livestock, maintaining areas surrounding livestock.
- Crop production: biosecurity, plant growth and development, crop yield and quality, establishing crops, managing crops, harvesting and storing crops.
- Ornamental and environmental horticulture and landscaping: biosecurity, plant growth and development, establishment, maintenance, installation and management of horticultural areas and designed landscapes.
- Land-based engineering: land-based equipment and machinery maintenance and repair, operating principles of different types of land-based machinery and equipment, tools, equipment and materials and their application, machinery and equipment maintenance and repair, diagnostic activities, machinery handover.
- Trees and woodlands: biosecurity, plant growth and development, theories and methods used to grow, maintain and manage trees and woodlands, tools, equipment and materials used in tree and woodland management and maintenance, tree felling, skills in growing trees.
- Floristry: Biosecurity, business, plant biology, safe working practices, creating designs in media, tied, glued and wired designs, communicating with colleagues and clients, creating designs to meet client requirements, producing designs for events.