Home study - Combine your love of horses with sound management skills
- Learn about management, marketing and business
- Learn about horse care and the equine industry
- Combine these skills and discover opportunities for employment and business in the equine industry
- 900 hour, self paced practical course with options to upgrade to a diploma
This course is designed to equip managers, supervisors, or people who wish to work their way up to these positions within the industry (e.g. at a riding school, race track, stud, farm etc), with the necessary management skills required to undertake such a role.
Course units include:
Three horse care units, coupled with a workplace or research project (or in some cases, work experience), office training and marketing skills.
A comprehensive business qualification of a standard required in the horse industry
Modules
Note that each module in the Advanced Certificate In Applied Management (Horses) is a short course in its own right, and may be studied separately.
WORKSHOP/RESEARCH PROJECT OR WORK EXPERIENCE
This is the final requirement that you must satisfy before receiving your award. There are two options available to you to satisfy this requirement:
Alternative 1.
If you work in the industry that you have been studying; you may submit a reference from your employer, in an effort to satisfy this industry (ie. workplace project) requirement; on the basis of RPL (ie. recognition for prior learning), achieved through your current and past work experience.The reference must indicate that you have skills and an awareness of your industry, which is sufficient for you to work in a position of responsibility.
Alternative 2.
If you do not work in the relevant industry, you need to undertake either :
OR
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In some cases we will accept other learning that constitutes "Learning in a real world relevant situation". This means that we will accept (based upon documentary proof):
- Attending industry meetings (conferences, seminars, study tours, committee meetings, etc)
AND/OR
- Attending workshops run by another institution; or supervised by a professional person working the student through our "workshop curriculum documents"
