Course content
Based at our Wigfield Farm campus, this two year study programme gives you the opportunity to study a range of specialist technical practical skills and knowledge that build upon the core skills required to include how to work safely around animals, be responsible for the planning and carrying out animal health and husbandry, and feeding and nutrition.
ROUTE ONE:
- Principles of health and safety
- Undertake and review work related experience
- Animal health and husbandry
- Animal Feeding and nutrition
- Animal behaviour and communication
- Biological systems of animals
- Animal welfare and breeding
- Wildlife and ecology conservation
- Wildlife management and rehabilitation
- Exotic animal health and husbandry
- Aquatics welfare and breed development
- Avian health and husbandry
- Animal Nursing
- Farm livestock husbandry and welfare
- Ecological concepts and applications
- Population surveys, ecology and conservation
- Undertake Estate skills
- Business management in the land based sector
- Undertake a Specialist project in the land based sector
ROUTE TWO
- Principles of health and safety
- Undertake and review work related experience
- Animal health and husbandry
- Animal Feeding and nutrition
- Animal behaviour and communication
- Biological systems of animals
- Animal welfare and breeding
- Wildlife and ecology conservation
- Wildlife management and rehabilitation
- Animal training
- Aquatics welfare and breed development
- Avian health and husbandry
- Animal Nursing
- Zoological collections
- Farm livestock husbandry and welfare
- Undertake Estate skills
- Business management in the land based sector
- Customer care and retail merchandising
- Undertake a Specialist project in the land based sector