The hunting course and the aptitude exam
The course teaches the knowledge; the exam tests shooting, practical and theoretical ability, and aims at wide recognition.
The Glarus hunting training ordinance (JAV, GS VI E/212/2) of 2 April 2013 keeps learning and testing distinct. The hunting course gives those who take it the hunting knowledge and skills needed to practise sustainable, ethically conducted hunting. The aptitude exam for hunters — the hunting exam — establishes whether candidates have the shooting, practical and theoretical abilities needed for that same hunting: what the ordinance calls Jagdfähigkeit, fitness to hunt. It adds an unusual requirement: both course and exam are to be adapted to new knowledge so that the fitness acquired is recognised as widely as possible, nationally and internationally. The competent department appoints, for a four-year term, a course head and the instructors, who together run the organisation and delivery of the course.