Foundation Degree (FdSc) in Wildlife Management

[Purplepixii]

Hiya

Just wanted to put the feelers out and see if anyone here has done this course: Foundation Degree (FdSc) in Wildlife Management ?

Am looking at a total career change, and want to learn about and work with Wildlife.

I've looked at some of the local volunteer jobs, one really takes my fancy so I might give them a call as I figure it would be good experience.

Doing the course will be a big decision for me - means giving up work - but I think in the end it will be worth it. No more sitting behind a desk!

Please let me know if you have done / are doing this course.

Cheers
Purplepixii

[Dan Salter]

Pixie...talk to me hun...In all seriousness (although i will also enjoy the moment ha ha)..im in your position...or was 2 years ago...im on yr 2 of my FdSc in Countryside Management (v similar) and about to do yr 3 of landscape management degree...

I gave up EVERYTHING even to the extent of moving back in with my ever difficult mother!....so, im the man to talk to

[Purplepixii]

Originally Posted by Dan Salter

Pixie...talk to me hun...In all seriousness (although i will also enjoy the moment ha ha)..im in your position...or was 2 years ago...im on yr 2 of my FdSc in Countryside Management (v similar) and about to do yr 3 of landscape management degree...

I gave up EVERYTHING even to the extent of moving back in with my ever difficult mother!....so, im the man to talk to

I must have missed the bit that says I have to move back in with my parents!! No course can be that cruel can it?

Ok we'll have a chat - will PM tomorrow

[Dan Salter]

Look forward to it

[sanderling]

Hi Purplepixii,

I finished the FdSc at Sparsholt last summer. Natural history is my number one interest and the course teaches the science that is necessary to begin to understand wildlife habitats.

I thought it was, overall, a very good course. When I started the course in 2004 the FdSc was new. Previously the part time Wildlife Management course had been run as an HNC and I think they were still refining and adapting the FdSc course and there were a few occasions when the organisation faltered and caused certain inconveniences to us but which did not acually inhinder us or affect our progress - its probably running a whole lot smoother now.

I did the part-time course (one day a week) so I was able to carry on with my work on the other days as usual. As I am self-employed there was no problem having to ask for time off.

On my course we were all mature students but there were several people who, for various reasons, dropped out during the first and second years. You need to be very focused and determined to get right through three years to the end. If you were like me and my fellow students we were very driven on by becoming more and more interested in the subjects as the course progressed so if you are already very interested in natural history then this will be a great help.

Bill

[Dan Salter]

I have to agree with all that Bill says....i very nearly took the FdSc Wildlife and Conservation at Spasholt...got accepted a place (and a place at Writtle) but they were both too far to travel and i couldnt afford to move or live on campuss so i had to choose Hadlow which is 17 miles from me.

But i agree you really need to be head strong and stick it out at times...several times i have had the wobbles but im so glad i have stuck in there...my problem is my interests are growing widely outside the realms of the course and can spend hours, days reading up or researching an area of natural history that is not part of the course or assignment ha ha...but i have managed to tie in my new interest in Scottish Wildcats into a presentation on a vertibrate species of our choice....yay!

Im also just finishing writing a presentation which i have to....err...present! on tuesday on a "pollution"...i have chosen dog feaces because i love dogs oh sooooo much! (not)

But yes....purple...Pm me (or bill) with anything daft you want to ask? x