Hurtpury or Bishop Burton? Please, HELP!

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Hi everyone! I realy need you help! Hurtpury or Bishop Burton?!
I'm hoping to study Equine Course in one of this colleges, but I don't know in wich one... Please, can you give me some information about them? I would like to become a profisional rider(I have expirience). That's why I want to know wich academy is better. Where do I really have a chance? I'm Three Day Event rider
I hope for your help:)
 
I went to Hartpury (studied animal science) took my horse but couldn't afford to keep him on livery so he had to be used by the college. The academy looked so much fun, I was always so jealous of them!
Hartpury is awesome to be at, loved every minute of it! Can't say what the course would be like or what the academy would be but social life is very good ;)
 
TuKi said:
Hi everyone! I realy need you help! Hurtpury or Bishop Burton?!
I'm hoping to study Equine Course in one of this colleges, but I don't know in wich one... Please, can you give me some information about them? I would like to become a profisional rider(I have expirience). That's why I want to know wich academy is better. Where do I really have a chance? I'm Three Day Event rider
I hope for your help:)
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Where are you from?
 
Personally i wouldnt go to either, i'd get a job in an eventing yard and learn from experience rather than exams. If you are any good you may also get rides on the younger/older/lower class horses or in the smaller events...
 
Agree with cuppatea but if you do decide to go to college I wouldn't recommend hartpury as I know many professionals around here who won't let a hartpury student on their yard due to their reputation.
 
From experience (after 3 hellish years) I'd avoid hartpury. Job prospects in the horse world will be poor, you'll be over qualified for post groom etc posts and under qualified for anything at graduate level! You need a masters degree to use a bsc in anything to work at graduate level, the bscs aren't specialist enough.

I'm now doing another 3 year bsc to train to become a Physio, as I realised horses were not for me (as a career, I still ride competitively) but even if I did, I'd look into nutrition or physio anyway so by doing humans, I'm killing two birds with one stone really, as it'll put me in the position where if I do eventually decide to do the msc in animal physio (ACPAT) then I'm suitably qualified. I have over £20k worth of debt, for nothing. So to say I'm sour about it is an understatement, and now fees have increased, god help any students wanting to do it now!

There are other reasons for me dislike hartpury, however as I've said on previous threads, it's not suitable to post on an open forum, i will answer a PM though. At the end of the day, you know what's right for you but you'd be better off doing what cuppatea suggested tbh, and it'll save you money in the long run.
 
I'm currently doing a degree at a different university and it is a complete waste of time, the uni is awful, wouldn't let half the people near a horse, the lecturers aren't great and don't even get me started on the yard, I know quite a few people who have transferred happily to Hartbury.
 
I went to Bishop and had a lot of fun, and it was also when they paid to put you through BHS exams which was handy.
Like with all things you only get out what you put in, and it is great for getting contacts etc, and a lot better than school, however if you don't try and do well it is pointless. I finished with a triple distinction (the highest grade) and BHS Stage 3.
All colleges have their problems however, Bishop included. Still it was a good 2 years of my life :)
TBH, if you want to be a 3 day event rider, working pupil positions might be more suitable.
 
Thanks for your answers. But I don't know anything about working in an eventing yard... Could you tell me something about it? And how can I get this job?
I want to know more about my opportunity to become a good rider, but I don't know how...
I think, college is the great variant, isn't it?
 
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If you want to become an event rider then I would suggest neither college and get a working pupil job. Have a look on yardandgroom.com
 
I'm in my third year at Hartpury and can honestly say I've had the best few years of my life!!! I chose to not do an equine specific degree, instead I do a BSc in Equine Sport Science and with your options you can chose to do mroe human or more equine sport. I've done alot more sport and now when I leave I can go into human sports as well. The academy is good here too, there's no denying it and the facilities are amazing.
People seem to slate it so badly, I had such mixed reviews before I came but I've absolutely loved my time here.
 
TuKi said:
Thanks for your answers. But I don't know anything about working in an eventing yard... Could you tell me something about it? And how can I get this job?
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In your first post you said you were a three day event rider - how can you not know anything about working in an eventing yard? How much experience do you actually have?
 
TuKi said:
Thanks for your answers. But I don't know anything about working in an eventing yard... Could you tell me something about it? And how can I get this job?
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phone up eventing yards and ask for work.
If you are very unexperienced you'd probably have to offer to work for nothing/peanuts inexchange for the experience and education.
If however you are a competant rider/worker you can expect something you can just about live on.
 
Not Bishop Burton!

I spent two years there and it was a complete waste of my time. 99% of lecturers are hopeless and the yard staff are a nightmare! When I had finished my degree any yard I tried to get a job at had no interest at all in the fact that I had one. They all want people with tons of practical experience.

My advice would be to get lots of practical experience by working at lots of different types of yards and learning from the professionals.
 
5 years of experience. No, I mean that I don't know exactly, where I can work. I've learned about colleges, but nothing about eventing yard...
 
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