The Animal Care College Code will:
- Ensure that any information given about the choice of a career, the prospects in a particular career or a prospective student's studies shall be accurate to the best of our knowledge, and that any advice given to prospective students and others shall be given in good faith and the best interests of the persons to whom the advice is tendered
- Take every reasonable care to enrol students only for courses that are suited to their individual needs and educational status, or for tuition for examinations for which the students are likely to be eligible.
- Inform students in our prospectuses and/or enrolment application forms of the conditions on which they are enrolled and to include in advertisements only statements which accurately reflect such conditions.
- Make fair regulations governing our relationship with students, and to treat equitably those who, through circumstances beyond our control, are unable to comply strictly with our regulations
- Provide efficient tutorial service, to maintain adequate and appropriately qualified tutorial and administrative staff and to issue to our students without undue delay adequate and reasonably up to date tutorial literature and instruction suitable to each student's needs.
- Encourage students to complete their courses of study and to do everything reasonably possible to enable the students to derive full benefit from them.
- Issue only certificates or diplomas that fairly represent the instruction given and not to make any statement or to imply that any such certificates or diplomas are equivalent to a degree or to a certificate awarded by a recognised examining body.
- Ensure those courses capable of being formally accredited by an external body will be so accredited.(The awarding body of the College is currently the National Open College Network)
- Maintain the highest ethical standards in our publicity by making no statement in any advertisement, prospectus or publicity literature, or by correspondence or orally, that is knowingly untrue or wilfully misleading; and in particular by publishing no examination results or statistics or particulars of our tutorial service or staff that are knowingly inaccurate or misleading.
- Encourage fair, dignified and honourable competition.
- Ensure that our staff are acquainted with this code, that they are given all facilities for complying with it, and are encouraged to honour it in the spirit as well as the letter.
David Cavill
For the Animal Care College
