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HORTICULTURE EDUCATION IN WESTERN CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES: PROBLEMS AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

Article number

350_3

Pages

19 – 22

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Abstract

Horticulture has faced numerous problems at western Canadian universities.
Many of them are administrative and communications oriented.
Administrators will make unpopular decisions if they are not continually informed.
After evaluating the problems it is possible to formulate a solution for the betterment of university horticulture and horticulture in general.

Publication

I International Symposium on Education and Training in Horticulture

Authors

E.A. Maginnes

Keywords

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https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1993.350.3

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