The Environmental Practitioner Apprenticeship at Keele University is focused on ensuring businesses are equipped for environmental challenges. Participants develop a range of transferable and practical skills that can be implemented in their organisation. This could be field work, research, laboratory analysis, or understanding statistics and handling data. The programme learning has been designed to provide solutions to real world environmental issues and covers topics such as ecology, pollution, water quality assessment and management, soil survey and evaluation, environmental impact assessment and climate change. The apprenticeship is Accredited by the Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES).