Join our graduates working as zoo keepers, animal park managers and tourist farm presenters, in places like research laboratories, pet shops, boarding kennels and veterinary clinics. Our programmes have been designed to be flexible and allow a high degree of portability between sectors of the animal care and handling industries.
You'll have a hands-on learning experience, working with our wide range of small and large animals on-site, and gain both national and specialist qualifications that are widely recognised within the animal care industry.
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Do you want to work in a boarding kennel or pet shop, or maybe at a wildlife park or with a horse trainer? This course of study includes regular off-campus work placements that will help you decide where you want to take your career in the animal and veterinary industry. This course is the perfect stepping stone to further study as a vet nurse. Get all the information about this programme
Get hands-on animal handling skills and equip yourself for a career in a zoo or animal park, or in conservation or farming. This course of study includes heaps of field vists and off-campus training sessions where you'll learn useful, real world skills like how to drive a tractor, use a chainsaw and fix a fence. Get all the information about this programme
Calling all aspiring vet nurses! This course of study is a great mix of theory, animal handling skills and practical work experience with local vet clinics so you can see what it's like to be a vet nurse in the real world. Be quick! This is a popular course and spaces fill quickly. Get all the information about this programme
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Hands-on courses and work experience
National Cert. in Veterinary Nursing L5