The Lingfield Instructor Group

1. The Lingfield Certificates & Intermediate Diplomas.

2.  The British Horse Society Horse Owner's Certificates exams.

3.  Overseas students information

1. Lingfield Certificates & Intermediate Diplomas:

Certificates

Awarded on successful completion of your course. The final assignment takes the form of an exam at the end of each course.

• These exams are entirely optional and are sat at your home without supervision. We take it on trust that our students will complete them as though they were supervised.

• The assignments are a set of revision questions covering the material and research undertaken during your course.  Most assignments contain a number of short questions and 2-3 questions requiring longer essay style answers.

• Previous assignments undertaken throughout the course, together with the topic specific Answer Guidance Sheets contained in all our courses, should mean you are well prepare you for this final exam.  We want you to achieve, so your tutor provides as much help as is possible to enable you to gain your award.

• Your exam/assignment is sent in to your tutor for checking with a small admin fee (see below). If your work is satisfactory, your tutor will award your certificate.

• If some answers need a little more work, your tutor will return the paper with helpful comments and feedback suggesting how you might improve on the answers.  Having repeated the required answers, send it back to your tutor and when all has been successfully completed, the relevant course certificate is awarded.

Intermediate Diplomas

These are awarded to those enrolled on the Intermediate Diploma programmes.  The programmes contain between 2 & 4 complete courses.  All Intermediate Diplomas include the Levels 1 & 2 courses and some include either one or two short courses.  On completion each course within the programme students are eligible for the Lingfield Certificate relating to that course.  On completion of the complete programme, students are eligible for the Lingfield Intermediate Diploma.

Admin Fee:

• Certification  and Diploma fee £15.00 (Cheques to PClements)
• Paypal to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it - with follow up email giving full details)
• £17 outside UK- Paypal as above

2. British Horse Society (BHS) Horse Owner’s Certificates exams are entirely optional.

Lingfield Correspondence incorporates the syllabus in the long courses,  We can therefore offer each BHS HOC Level at the end of individual long courses providing the strict procedures are adhered to.

• BHS exams sat with Lingfield : Levels 1 & 2 = £50, Level 3 = £55.
  

• Those enrolled on an Intermediate Diploma programme are offered the option to go straight into sit Level 2 of the BHS HOC's without first having to sit the Level 1 exam.

• Exam fees are non returnable.

In UK & Eire we can usually arrange for you to sit the BHS exams in your own home - see below for outside UK and Eire.

• Conforming strictly to BHS guidelines, we will set up the exam providing we are able to locate a suitable external freelance invigilator. We generally locate a suitable person via an educational facility locally to the student.
  
• The BHS exams department 01926-707700 will confirm validity of these exams.

The invigilator will bring the exam paper to your home and oversee your exam. The invigilator is not usually a horse person and will be unknown to you.

If for some reason we are unable to locate a suitable person within a reasonable timescale (this is unlikely), at this stage, and not before, you may provide details of a local instructor who is prepared to oversee the exam (this option is available only under these circumstances).

• You will need to locate the instructor yourself and it should be noted here that not all instructors would feel able to do this for you, especially if they run their own courses for Horse Owner's Certificates. We will provide procedures for contacting suitable instructors at the required time.
  

• The instructor must be on the list of UK Registered Instructors or an ABRS Instructor. A map linking to area lists for the BHS will be found at the foot of the BHS page found by clicking here. The ABRS office will provide names of ABRS instructors in your area: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

• In the event that Lingfield Correspondence is unable to locate a suitable invigilator we will refund the BHS part of the fee which is currently £15

3. Overseas students

Overseas students may sit the exams at the British Council offices in their own country. Students must contact the British Council personally in their own country of residence to establish availability of exam facilities, venue and costs, all of which must be paid by the student as well as the exam fee stated above.  See http://www.britishcouncil.org

South Africa: There are several British Council offices in most main cities.  We also offer exams in the Durban area once a year - overseen by a visiting instructor who holds annual training clinics. There is a small charge per student.

The BHS exams at each of their Levels follow the same format. They take the form of a written paper of 90 minutes duration offering 30 short questions and 4 long questions. A percentage of 60% correct answers is required for a pass. The exams are run under normal exam conditions i.e. in the same way that most college or school examinations are held.  No books or notes are available to the student during the exam.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  Neither the Lingfield exams nor the BHS HOC exams are part of the BHS Stages, nor do they count towards the BHS stages. The HOC’s are amateur qualifications, whereas the Stages are professional qualifications. No part of the BHS Stages exams are written. The theory on equine care & management is questioned orally during the day of the various Stages exams.

The Stages exams are all practical exams and are run by the BHS at various exam centres around the country. The Lingfield long courses are however used by many students to gain the theory knowledge on which they would be questioned during their professional exams. More information on becoming a Riding Instructor and gaining professional qualifications will be found in the book How To Get Qualified ‘Guide’ here.

Sample HOC Exam Papers and Syllabus:

http://www.bhs.org.uk/content/Ods-More.asp?id=1866&pg=Education&spg=Information&area=2

To be eligible to sit the BHS HOC exams with Lingfield Correspondence you must follow the procedures and successfully complete the relevant assignments in your own handwriting. In Level 1 only, a Practical Tack session must also be completed under the jurisdiction of a local, fully qualified BHSAI or ABRS Instructor.  In the case of overseas students this may be with an instructor holding an equivalent qualification.