London Easter School 2011 "best ever"

The third installment of the RVC's VETNET Easter Schools took place in April 2011 under blue skies and warm sunshine.  Eighteen students from across the UK made the trip to London to learn about Veterinary Medicine and Nursing in what turned out to be an excellent three days of activities.

Utilising both the London and Hertfordshire campuses, the students experienced all aspects of university-style learning in a series of lectures, seminars and practical classes over three days.  In addition to this, the students had a full social timetable in the evenings, including a trip to the cinema, and a set of applying to university workshops - although perhaps less interesting, these were ranked as extremely useful with comments including "The student finance talk was the most useful part of the Easter School because I was worried about tuition fees [and now I am not]."

The highlight of the School came on the final day, with a visit from Zoofari Mobile Zoo.  The students literally got to grips with a host of exotics, including a 15 foot long Burmese python and a meerkat named Aleksandr.  The feedback has been uniformly excellent, with one student commenting that they had learnt " that I can become independent even though I thought I wasn't able to.  I feel I have become more confident and I definitely know I want to study Vet Med at the RVC."  Another said "I have decided that university is definitely the right route for me to take.  It has opened my eyes to the different options that are available to me both during and after university."