Diploma
VetSkill Level 3 Diploma in Veterinary Nursing - Equine
The College of Animal Welfare (CAW) · Veterinary nursing courses, The College of Animal Welfare · Huntingdon, England, United Kingdom
- Official award
- VetSkill Level 3 Diploma in Veterinary Nursing (Equine)
- Pathway
- Veterinary nursingStated for United Kingdom
- Format
- HybridDuration 30 months
- Tuition
- Not published
Hybrid program
About this program
Thirty-month day-release equine Level 3 diploma delivered by Live Online lessons with ten practical skills training days at Huntingdon, alongside employment in an RCVS approved training practice.
- Subject
- Veterinary nursing
- Department
- Veterinary nursing courses, The College of Animal Welfare
- Awarding body
- VetSkill
Qualification and professional pathway
Pathway is classified only from a statement on an official page. An award title such as DVM, BVSc, BSc or MSc does not decide it, and no degree, accreditation or listing by itself grants permission to practise anywhere.
- Degree level
- DiplomaA non-degree award, or a qualification at a level the national framework defines. It is not counted as an academic degree.
- Pathway
- Veterinary nursingPrograms preparing veterinary nurses. The role, title and regulation differ by country and are not interchangeable with veterinarians or technicians.
- Why we classify it this way
- The page states that completion allows students to apply for registration as an equine Registered Veterinary Nurse with the RCVS.“Completion of the VetSkill Level 3 Diploma in Veterinary Nursing (Equine) qualification will allow you to apply for professional registration as an equine Registered Veterinary Nurse (eRVN) with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS).”Source
- Prior degree required
- Not published
Accreditation, evaluation and recognition
Recorded for this program and campus, with the authority’s role. Program accreditation, evaluation status, professional-body recognition, eligibility toward registration, institutional recognition, directory listings and memberships are different things; none of them is automatic permission to practise, and recognition in one country does not guarantee registration in another.
Not verifiedRoyal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS)Professional-body recognitionUK
Scope: RCVS register lists the awarding organisation VetSkill (2025, full accreditation); the CAW page describes the course as RCVS approved but the register does not itemise qualifications or centres
Dates: 1 January 2025 to not stated
Study structure
- Delivery
- HybridPart online and part in person (campus attendance, laboratory work, attendance-based exams or clinical placements). A hybrid program is never described as fully online.
- Online instruction
- Blended with required campus elements
- Mandatory campus attendance
- Yes
- Mandatory clinical or workplace placement
- Programme runs alongside employment in an RCVS approved veterinary training practice
- Placement arrangement
- Placement arrangement not published
- Must already work in a veterinary setting
- Yes
- Placement site approval
- Yes
- Live attendance
- Live sessions required
- International enrolment
- Not published
- Study mode
- Part-time
- Duration
- Duration 30 months
- Campus attendance
- Live Online lessons with 10 practical skills training days at Huntingdon.
- Intakes
- January 2027
- Campus
- College of Animal Welfare, Huntingdon
Teaching language
- Taught in
- Not stated on the pages we checked
- English
- English teaching not verifiedAn English-language website does not mean a program is taught in English.
Admissions
- Animal or veterinary experience
- Not published
- Interview
- Not published
- Previous qualification
- Typically GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (or A* to C) including English, mathematics and a science subject, or equivalent
- Official instructions
- Application instructions
Fees and costs
Original currency is authoritative. Each price keeps its basis (per year, per credit, whole program), academic year and student category, and is never converted. Annual tuition and whole-program tuition are different figures.
The institution does not publish tuition for this program on the pages we checked. Ask for current fees, what they include and whether clinical or laboratory charges, equipment and protective clothing, travel, placement expenses and insurance are extra.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: tuition, animal or veterinary experience requirement, whether a prior degree is required.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 19 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 19 October 2026)