Secure Future Now Ahead for College ; Farming Editor Peter Hall Talks to David Henley, a Man Whose Vision Should Vouchsafe a Positive Future for Bicton College

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AFTER five months in the driving seat, the new man in charge of Bicton College forecasts a positive and meaningful future for the institution that is both Devon's agricultural college and a fount of land-based higher education in the county.

The time was - not so very long ago - when the higher echelons of the agri-education world in the South West were mooting the possibility of Bicton's closure, its "turf" carved up by Kingston Maurward College in Dorset to the east, and Duchy College in Cornwall to the west.

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Secure Future Now Ahead for College ; Farming Editor Peter Hall Talks to David Henley, a Man Whose Vision Should Vouchsafe a Positive Future for Bicton College

A college principal viewed by many as unsuitable (following the signal service of his extremely popular predecessor) and the consequent disaffection among the staff, combined to produce a gloomy prognosis for Bicton. The appointment of a cheerful and optimi...

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