Our Foundation Studies programme is a supportive, inclusive and exciting post-16 provision providing support and development for learners with a range of special educational needs and disabilities. At Houghall, learners can access our vocational programmes including agriculture and animal care.
This equine horse care course at Houghall in Durham includes horse feeding, watering, maintaining health, preparing accommodation and exercising horses under supervision.
Want to work with animals? Our entry-level animal care course, taught at our Houghall campus in Durham, gives you plenty of experience of working with both small and large animals.
Start your career in agriculture with East Durham College's Level 2 agriculture course, taught at our Houghall campuses' state-of-the-art farming facility in Durham.
If you are looking to start a career within the land and wildlife sector, then this qualification is aimed at you. Within countryside conservation, you could be surveying and reporting on the condition of an outdoor area, encouraging people to enjoy the environments around them, carrying out habitat management work or monitoring a section of river prone to floods.