Creating experts in their fields

MOST apprentices only expect to learn the basics of their trade during their training, but Neville Kilkenny went beyond those first steps and discovered a fungus that had never been recorded in the UK.

Kilkenny, a mycologist taking part in the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) Scotland’s Natural Talent apprenticeship scheme, found the Mycenastrum corium sample in the car park of the John Muir Country Park, Dunbar.

During his appre...