If you are looking to work with animals, then it’s not too late to enrol onto a full time City & Guilds course starting in September! Running from our Huntingdon centre, we are still taking applications for the following courses: • Level 2 Diploma Animal Care (One year) • Level 3 Extended Diploma in Animal Management (Two years) […]
The College of Animal Welfare News Blog
Full Time Courses Enrolling Now For September!
Starlings in Decline
The RSPB’s annual ‘Big Garden Birdwatch’ has revealed a significant 80% decline in the UK’s starling population since 1979.
Results of the 2012 VN Salary Survey Now Available
The British Veterinary Nursing Association (BVNA) joined forces with the Society of Practising Veterinary Surgeons (SPVS) between March and May of this year to gather data for the production of a comprehensive salary survey. The results are now out and some of the top findings include: • Average salary of a qualified veterinary nurse – £19,881 […]
CAW Chooses City & Guilds To Award VN Qualification
The UK’s largest provider of veterinary nurse training, The College of Animal Welfare (CAW), has chosen City & Guilds to award its veterinary nurse provision. CAW has been carefully evaluating the choice of awarding body following the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’ (RCVS) announcement to close its awarding body (RCVS Awards) last year. Commenting on […]
CAW Chooses City & Guilds To Award VN Qualification
The UK’s largest provider of veterinary nurse training, The College of Animal Welfare (CAW), has chosen City & Guilds to award its veterinary nurse provision. CAW has been carefully evaluating the choice of awarding body following the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons’ (RCVS) announcement to close its awarding body (RCVS Awards) last year. Commenting on […]
BVNA Launches New Laboratory Revision App
Student and qualified veterinary nurses can now benefit from the new BVNA Laboratory App for iPhone and iPad. The British Veterinary Nursing Association has joined forces with leading IT provider, AT Veterinary Systems, to produce a handy laboratory revision app for veterinary nurses. Split into two sections, the app comprises a quick revision and a […]
Reminders for Clinical Coaches!
Please remember that, as a Clinical Coach, you must make be an RVN or MRCVS – Please check your registration! If you have a student wishing to start the day release veterinary nursing programmes this September you should enrol them as soon as possible as places are filling up fast! Remember if your student is […]
RCVS Day Report Now Available
Full details on the recent RCVS Day, held on 6 July, is now available on the RCVS Website. RCVS Day saw the investiture of the new RCVS President, Jacqui Molyneux, taking over the role from Jerry Davies who now becomes Vice-President. The day also saw changes to RCVS Council and the Veterinary Nurses Council and […]
Pets as Therapy [Charity Profile]
Pets As Therapy exist to bring comfort, companionship and therapy to people in hospitals, hospices, residential/nursing homes, day care centres, special needs schools and many other establishments.
RCVS Charitable Trust News: Appointment of a New RVN Trustee
The Trust has appointed Jean Turner as a new registered veterinary nurse (RVN) Trustee Jean, who is well known within both the veterinary nursing and veterinary professions, has a distinguished track-record as an ambassador for veterinary nursing. Jean qualified with the Registered Animal Nursing Auxiliary (RANA) in November 1971 as a mature student, having previously […]