The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded the museum and botanic garden arm of the University of Oxford a £400,000 grant. This grant will provide placements for graduates to train as education officers for the heritage sector. Twelve trainees will spend 18 months working with collections, understanding new technology and working in volunteer management. The training will take place across five different sites, inlcuding The Ashmolean Museum, the Oxford Unviversity Museum of Natural History, the Pitt Rivers Museum, the Oxford Botanic Garden adn Harcourt Arboretum, and the Museum of the History of Science.