Students
FdSc APPLIED BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE & WELFARE
Resources
- New multi-million pound animal management, veterinary nursing and dog grooming facility (opening Spring 2009)
- Specialist rooms for aquatics, reptiles, invertebrates and small mammals
- Extensive paddock facilities housing a range of grazing animals
- 6 bay, custom built aviaries for exotic birds
- Commercial dog grooming parlour
- Fully equipped veterinary examination room
Typical Employers
Animal rescue centres, animal charities, zoos and wildlife parks, as well as educational institutions and retail outlets.
Industry Links
Students benefit from a wide range of contacts such as local zoos, wildlife parks and rare breeds centres together with veterinary practices, pet shops, kennels, groomers and rescue operations such as Battersea Dogs Home.
Allowing students to develop skills in the understanding of behavioural principles and the biological and physiological systems which underpin them, this course will enable graduates to move into the many career paths which are found within the fields of animal welfare and the behavioural sciences.
Entry Requirements 80 UCAS points: 1 A level at Grade C or above or National Diploma at PPM or equivalent
supported by GCSEs. Life experiences will be taken into consideration.
Location
Hadlow
Start Date Induction will take place w/c Monday 14th September 2009. The programme will begin w/c Monday 21st September 2009.
Course Duration
3 years, 1.5 days a week.