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Adult Education Budget (AEB) Funding Update
Please be aware that from the 1st August 2021, the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) will be withdrawing their Adult Education Budget contract from The College of Animal Welfare. Due to this, we are unfortunately unable to offer any AEB funding to new students. This applies to the following courses: Level 2 Diploma in […]
Students wanted to take part in paid research for Fika
The Fika research team is keen to get feedback from students about their experiences using the app, and are offering the opportunity to take part in paid research. If you’re a student with us, you use Fika and would like to give some feedback, one of Fika’s researchers will schedule a casual online call. The […]
5 Pawesome Career Options for Dog Groomers
Whether you’ve recently qualified as a dog groomer, or you’re thinking about training as a dog groomer in the future, you may be wondering about the professional career options for dog groomers. With a formal dog grooming qualification in hand, many dog groomers are ready to take the industry by storm. There are lots of […]
Campaigning for a hedgehog friendly campus
Charlotte Barnett, one of our third year students studying for a BSc (Hons) in Veterinary Nursing, has written a guest blog post all about her campaign for a hedgehog friendly campus! Read more here… Hedgehogs are one of Britain’s most loved animals, and right now, they need our help more than ever. In the UK, […]
It’s “distinction” all around for our animal care apprentices!
As National Apprenticeship Week comes to a close, we’re delighted to announce some amazing news from our apprenticeships team: all five of our animal care apprentices who recently completed their End Point Assessments (EPA) achieved a distinction! With the End Point Assessment taking place virtually due to COVID-19, our students worked extra hard to […]
5 Ways to Start a Conversation about Mental Health
We’re always being encouraged to talk more about our mental health, and now more than ever it is really important to put yourself out there and make these discussions happen. As COVID-19 continues to create social and economic pressures – such as worries about catching the virus, job and money difficulties, disruption to our […]
ePortfolio Support Sessions for CAW Clinical Supervisors
We’re pleased to announced that we will be offering our ePortfolio support sessions on a bimonthly basis throughout 2021. These sessions have been organised to provide support to Clinical Supervisors on all things ePortfolio and will run via our new live streaming virtual delivery platform. The sessions will take place on the following dates and […]
Join us at Clinical Coach Congress 2021!
We’re excited to share that Clinical Coach Congress 2021 is taking place virtually on Thursday 20th May, and is now open for registrations! Clinical Coach Congress is a unique conference dedicated purely to supporting clinical coaches and those involved in veterinary nurse training. Attendees will get the chance to listen to a variety of relevant […]
CAWSOME CHRISTMAS PET PHOTO COMPETITION!
This Christmas the College of Animal Welfare decided the run a Pet Photo competition for our degree students and we must admit we were pawsitively blown away by the entries! The competition was inspired by Claire Defries, BSc VN Programme Leader, who said… ‘We thought a competition would be a chance to offer some light-hearted […]
COVID testing and returning to college in 2021
Updated 9th March 2021 The College are working hard to help students return to College Centre’s and complete their assessments. Getting tested means it will help prevent the spread of coronavirus in our community and we will be able to support students to self-isolate if necessary. Testing is just part of the preventative measures against […]