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January Start Veterinary Nursing Programmes – Why Wait Until September?
If you’re looking to start training as a veterinary nurse, our next day release Level 3 Diploma in Veterinary Nursing programme starts the week commencing the 7 January 2013. This particular programme is for students who are employed in a veterinary practice that is approved to train veterinary nurses – a Training Practice (TP) or […]
Ofsted Report Praises 96% Veterinary Nursing Apprenticeship Success Rate
The College of Animal Welfare has been rated as ‘Good’ across the board following its recent Ofsted inspection. This is the first inspection the College has been through since the new, more stringent, inspection regime came into effect in September. The week long inspection involved a team of seven inspectors covering three of the College’s […]
New Online Veterinary Anatomy Museum
The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has, this week, launched a new Online Veterinary Anatomy Museum (OVAM). The museum, is one of the world’s largest online veterinary anatomical resource collections designed to inspire learners everywhere to engage with animal anatomy and science in an interactive and informative way. The Online Veterinary Museum includes: 3D imaging of […]
Nursing Progress Log (NPL) will be unavailable the weekend of the 15/16 December
The RCVS have just informed us that veterinary nursing students/clinical coaches will be unable to access the Nursing Progress Log (NPL) the weekend of the 15/16 December whilst some technical work is carried out by SkillWise on their servers. They apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Veterinary Nursing Student, Nicola Cutts, Shares her Tips for Staying On Top of your College Work!
The best advice I could give anyone is ‘if you can give 100% into any situation then you will receive 100% back’. Always push yourself to reach those targets and treat every patient as you would expect your pet to be treated. Finding the correct balance between your social life and college needs to be […]
Looking to Recruit a New Apprentice? We Can Help!
If you are looking for a new student veterinary nurse or an animal care/horse care apprentice, then we can help you recruit for free! In addition to our free jobs board, we can place the vacancy for you on the National Apprentice Service’s website. We can even filter through the applications, if need be, and arrange the interviews for […]
RCVS and VN Council elections: Candidates Now Being Sought
Nominations are now being sought for candidates to stand in the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeon Council (RCVS Council) and Veterinary Nurse Council (VN Council) elections. The deadline for nominations is 5pm on 31 January 2013. There are six seats due to be filled on RCVS Council, and two on VN Council. Those elected will […]
CAW Students – Design a Poster or Poem and be in with a chance of winning £100!
In recognition of Anti-Bullying Week 2012 (19-23 November) we are running a poster/poem competition for all our students with the winning entrant receiving £100! Anti-Bullying Week has been running for six years now and this year’s theme is ‘We’re better without bullying’. Posters and poems can be any interpretation of this theme. This year’s theme […]
Staff and Students Raise Lots for Children In Need
Staff and students from The College of Animal Welfare’s Huntingdon and Leeds centres raised over £200 for Children In Need on Friday 16 November by wearing spots or pyjamas and holding a cake sale! A variety of ‘spottiness’ was seen around the Huntingdon centre – from spotty nails and spotty shirts to spotty face paints […]
NPL ‘Bug’ Now Fixed
The ‘bug’ on the NPL system which meant that the days of the week were not corresponding correctly with dates has now been fixed.