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Equine Degrees

FabulousFortune

Anyone else on here doing an equine degree?

Reply 1

randdom

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Whats an equine degree?

Reply 2

Sarky

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randdom

Whats an equine degree?

Horsies

. Ok i know its more than that..

Reply 3

Becca28

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FabulousFortune

Anyone else on here doing an equine degree?

I have a friend thats doing an Equine Management course, which uni are you at? BCA (Berkshire College of Agriculture) is just round the corner from me, which is supposed to be really good for equine degrees.

Reply 4

ellewoods

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Wish I had done equine studies :frown:

Who needs to be a rich lawyer working 1638 hours a week when I could have been knee-deep in um, happiness, and riding every day??!! :rolleyes:

Thank god my friend-with-a-fab-horse has got a new boyfriend so she's slightly "distracted" at the moment, so I can take advantage and adopt her horse!! yay!! :smile:

Reply 5

tony_parsons

sounds like a complete waste of time to me. you obviously dont need a degree, it'd be a better idea to obtain the required knowledge through experience. an utterly absurd waste of time and money.

Reply 6

gianthead

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tony_parsons

sounds like a complete waste of time to me. you obviously dont need a degree, it'd be a better idea to obtain the required knowledge through experience. an utterly absurd waste of time and money.

I know people often say things like that, but it seems unfair that people who know enough and work hard enough to get a degree shouldn't get the credit because their subject is vocational. spending three years learning a lot about horses can be very worthwhile and can save people making mistakes they might otherwise :smile:

Reply 7

Tarts_n_Vicars

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Well if Tony says it, it must be true. Not.

I had a mate from Ireland who went to somewhere near Gloucester to do it, she works on a stud farm back home now.

Reply 8

L i b

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Afraid I've got to agree with the 'degree in equine management?!'-style response. It's a very practical thing - something you'd learn on the job rather than in a lecture theatre. Somehow I don't believe the local stables and hunts in my area have many university-trained equine managers.

Reply 9

gianthead

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LibertineNorth

Afraid I've got to agree with the 'degree in equine management?!'-style response. It's a very practical thing - something you'd learn on the job rather than in a lecture theatre. Somehow I don't believe the local stables and hunts in my area have many university-trained equine managers.

I'd imagine the degree would contain a lot of practical (and probably periods of work-experience) like doing a vet's degree

Reply 10

FabulousFortune

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tony_parsons

sounds like a complete waste of time to me. you obviously dont need a degree, it'd be a better idea to obtain the required knowledge through experience. an utterly absurd waste of time and money.

Actually, its not a waste of time or money. If you do an equine degree you usually dont end up mucking out stables, a lot of people go on to do research, become nutritionists, trainers etc.

AND its not all riding horses, we do modules on Anatomy & Physiology, Nutrition, Business Management and Biology just to name a few!!!

Reply 11

saoirse

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FabFoetune where do you study and what course? i want to do a distance learning degree in equine behaviour and welfare (have to do dist learning cos at uni)

Reply 12

FabulousFortune

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saoirse

FabFoetune where do you study and what course? i want to do a distance learning degree in equine behaviour and welfare (have to do dist learning cos at uni)

I am at writtle college, its part of the university of essex

Reply 13

Lady_Muck

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FabulousFortune

Actually, its not a waste of time or money. If you do an equine degree you usually dont end up mucking out stables, a lot of people go on to do research, become nutritionists, trainers etc.

AND its not all riding horses, we do modules on Anatomy & Physiology, Nutrition, Business Management and Biology just to name a few!!!

I hate to break it to you (being horsey for the last 16 years and having two horses now)....That they are!

Reply 14

hanadeka2002

Hmm,when I used to do horse riding and loaned a pony etc, the stables where I went offered vocational qualifications in 'horses' ,you might say.

I can't remember too much about this because it was a few years ago but you'd generally do a course of a couple of days where you'd show you can properly clean a horse,clean its saddle,bridle etc and you know...general horse related things like that...obviously the tasks got harder the higher the level.

Surely that would be more useful and productive than a degree in 'Equine Studies'.

Reply 15

RieLouise

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Agricultural colleges traditionally have high entry requirements.
(Delusions of Omniscience - is it contagious?)

Reply 16

BexTait

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I suppose a degree in Equine Studies or similar would be very useful if you were wanting to run a stables or such like...

Reply 17

arkbar

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I am at writtle college, its part of the university of essex

Writtle college? Moooo. It's hard ot tell which out of that and APU is better :wink:

Reply 18

Lady_Muck

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BexTait

I suppose a degree in Equine Studies or similar would be very useful if you were wanting to run a stables or such like...

Bearing in mind you can take a degree in Equine Studies without touching a horse, probably not.

The equine industry likes work experience, not paper qualifications.

Reply 19

Né Stig

15

There is a member on here named 'RidingMaster' who also studies Equine studies at Writtle College :smile:

In the first year I believe. Haven't spoken to her for ages.

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