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SPOTLIGHT ON STUDENTS
RVC students are the veterinary professionals hard degree was something that kept me going. beneficial to students’ physical and mental
and scientists of the future. Their courses From helping me financially to giving me extra health. We were delighted to support a range of
are necessarily vigorous and challenging motivation, it’s given me the confidence I needed. RVC sport teams this year, purchasing new kit,
in order to ensure that our graduates are Thank you so much.” paying travel costs to matches and securing new
fully equipped to practice and develop We were also delighted to increase the grant training opportunities.
pioneering medicine. With significant study given to the RVC’s Student Support Team RVC students learn how to apply their academic
time required, it can be a real challenge for who assist students in financial difficulty. The learning during their courses largely by working in
students to find part-time work to support pandemic created all sorts of problems for companies, charitable organisations, vet practices
themselves whilst also keeping up with their students from reducing the number of part-time and laboratories all over the world. Vet students
studies. Postgraduate students get very little work opportunities to putting more pressure on have to complete several months of this work as
financial support from the Government, but students’ IT requirements with the increased part of their course and the additional travel and
it is essential they are supported to protect emphasis on online learning. Fortunately, we accommodation can be a huge expense. The ACT
and advance the life-saving science they have been able to help them largely thanks to the created the RVC Alumni Fund to provide funding
are involved with. Thanks to the ACT, the support of RVC Alumni. As the cost-of-living crisis to help students like Zach and An-Chi (pictured)
RVC is able to help reduce the financial hits in Winter 2022/3 we expect this support will realise their career dreams by getting experience
burden by offering scholarships and grants be needed more than ever. in the specialist fields that appeal to them.
to help students.
As well as supporting students financially, it is also
2022 saw the graduation of the first ever ACT important to support them in their extra-curricular
scholar. Olivia Bowsher was awarded an ACT activities to benefit their wellbeing. These activities
Catt Scholarship to study veterinary nursing provide an important break from studies
thanks to a very generous bequest in the will and this time can be extremely
of Mrs Elizabeth Catt. It was important to
Mrs Catt that promising young minds could
fulfil their dreams of having a career helping
animals regardless of their financial situation.
Olivia commented,
“The Catt Scholarship has been
incredible. Knowing someone
had faith in me at the
beginning of a long and
RVC student Zach Pollack examining a Malayan Tapir at Aspinall Foundation thanks to RVC Alumni
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