Welfare courses
Course is accredited by UK Rural Skills
The courses on this page are designed to provide a quality learning experience from introducing animal care knowledge and understanding to more advanced courses such as animal behaviour and sentience.
The most advanced course is animal ethics and sentience. This course is a part of our programme for delivering specialist courses for PhD students who require an area of study not offered by their university, is impractical to follow or too costly.
Try unit 1 from a course to see if it is for you. Details are on the individual course pages.
Introductory animal care is set at the equivalent to Entry Level 2/3 learning. This course is aimed at early home learning, a restart to education and special requirements.
Course fee: £50.00
Animal Science and Welfare is set at the equivalent to level 4 study. The course provides an insight into the comparative anatomy and physiology of vertebrates for use as CPD, home study prior to formal higher education or work-related aspects.
Course fee: £395.00
Animal Science and Welfare Introductory 1 is set at the equivalent to level 1 study. The course introduces animal cells, tissues, the skeletal and digestive systems, circulatory system and nervous systems and the integumentary system. This course is the start to more demanding levels of study about animal anatomy and physiology.
Course fee: £125.00
Zoo Animal Welfare is set at the equivalent to Level 4 study. Keeping non-human animals in captivity is a contentious subject. This course looks into the why and how animals should be kept according to their natural habitat and their behavioural needs. Suitable for zoo staff and others with zoo animal responsibilities.
Course fee: £425.00
Veterinary Care Assistant is set at the equivalent to Level 2 study. This matches the national standard for veterinary assistants and is aimed at those who want to go into vet nursing but would like to see what that involves.
Course fee: £60.00
Animal Welfare Investigator is set at the equivalent to level 3 study. Aimed at anyone wanting to work within animal welfare, CPD for work and animal rescue.
Course fee: £395.00
Animal Behaviour and Sentience is set at the equivalent to level 5 study. It looks into the nature of behaviour and evidence for self-awareness (sentience) as an argument for better welfare. Can be used for CPD, work-related development and home study.
Course fee: £425.00
Animal Science and Welfare Introductory 2 is set at the equivalent to level 2 study. Like the introductory course in content the demand is higher. It prepares for further study at the higher levels of animals anatomy, physiology and functions of systems for the animal.
Course fee: £175.00
Animal Ethics and Sentience is set at the equivalent to study level 6. Similar to animal behaviour and sentience except that it includes ethical and philosophical aspects. This is a demanding and stimulating course designed for CPD, self-development and e.g animal welfare officers.
Course fee: £375.00
Animal Ethics and Sentience (Advanced) is set at the equivalent to PhD (Doctorate) study level.. Similar to the Level course, this version requires significantly more from the student in terms of research and literature finding. The assessment follows a standard format found across the globe for PhD level studies.
Course fee: £425.00