The Lingfield Instructor Group

Lingfield home study horse courses work is simply a case of getting them to work for you.

Even how long it takes is up to you!   Work through the Lingfield courses entirely at your own speed

You enrol on the Lingfield courses as and when you are ready - you work in your own time and at your own speed.We do not rush you or hassle you.

Lingfield course files are called Study Packs in the long courses & Sections in the Short courses.

• When you receive your first course file, you read it through & make your own notes.
• When you are ready, send for the next Study Pack / Section
• If life gets busy or hectic - just put the course away and pick it up again when life calms down.
• That's all there is to it. 
  

Each section / study pack contains an assignment (a set of questions about the information in that file)  Answer the questions before requesting your next file.

• Keep your answers in your file with your notes - do not send them in.
• In the next file you receive, you will find an answer guidance sheet (AGS). This AGS provides help and shows you how you should have answered the previous assignments.
• If you get stuck with any question or have a queries about anything in the course, just email or telephone your tutor for help - all our tutors are friendly, relaxed and fully qualified with special knowledge & interest in the course they tutor.
• You continue to work through the course like this until you reach the final Study Pack or Section.
• Send in the final section with the required administration fee if you would like your tutor to check your work. Your tutor will award a Lingfield Equine Certificate if the work is successfully completed. An Intermediate Diploma is awarded on completion of a full Intermediate programme.
  

The course language

The equine course work is written in really easy to read language so even if you haven't studied since school we are sure you will find it easy.  See what others say here. If your tutor feels some work needs a little more detail she will send you advice and tips on how to improve your answer, you repeat that part and send it in again. When successfully completed, the certificate is issued.

Free Tutor support

Free Tutor support is available for every equine student throughout their course by telephone, post or e-mail. We like to be on first name terms with all our students and welcome your contact be it for help and advice or just a quick chat to tell us about your new horse or riding experience. However, you have as much or as little contact as you wish.

Full Tutor Support

If you struggle with reading or writing but feel you would like to take the Level 1 course, we try to help you get going on the course.  Sometimes with the help of a tutor and maybe with the help of someone at home as well, you might feel more able to work on this sort of course. The extra fee for this is £46.

Prior to starting the course and on receipt of the first Set Work, your tutor will be happy to discuss with you (and/or your helper), ways to help you work on the course material. You may if you wish send the first Set Work into your tutor for assessment and help.  It doesn't matter if your spelling is not so good, neither does it matter if your writing is a bit difficult to read.    Your tutor will do her best to asses the work to establish how much you have learnt and to ensure you are working as expected.  The fee for this is £46 payable on enrolment at the time of choosing your course.

When you enrol, we don’t send you the whole course in one big file and then just leave you to get on with it. This we feel, is like you paying for a rather expensive book!

Although this would be an easy and economical way to run the courses, our Study Packs provide you with easily absorbed bite sized chunks of information, and your regular contact with us helps to keep you motivated.

Levels 1 & 2 Long courses contain 250 hours of study time each.  This is divided into 7 Study Packs per course.  (Level 3 has 10).

Students with a busy life who are juggling work, family and horses etc, seem to work at the rate of approximately one Study Pack a month.

It should be easy therefore, to complete Level 1 in about 6/7 months.  Some people however, work more quickly than this, whilst others take a good deal longer. In the end however, how long it takes you depends on your input, the more work you put in and the more research you do, the more you get out of it.

How long will a 'short' course take?

The short courses are topic specific and provide between 25 and 35/40 hours of lecture material.  Most people with a busy life, work and family could probably complete a course quite easily within 2-3 months.

I don't have a lot of time for studying.  Are there any time restrictions to course completion?

No not really.  You can take as long as you like and you can also take a break from your work whenever you wish and take it up again some months later.  As long as you contact us every two years to advise you still wish to continue with the course we will keep it running.  If you leave it longer than 2 yrs we charge a reinstatement fee to set it running again. After 3 years of no contact however, we assume the course has been terminated by the student.  It is easy enough to drop us a line now and again though, just to tell us you are still keen to continue eventually.

Completion time restrictions do often apply with funded courses and grants though, so you do need to be aware of that if your course fee is being paid by someone else.

Time Restrictions:

We do have a minimum time restriction on the long courses.  We will not send a complete individual Level 1 or 2 course out to a student in less than 3 months.  Packs and sections will be sent one at a time and only with the required minimum gap.

With all courses there is a minimum time between one course file being confirmed as received and opened by the student, and the next being requested. The required time lapse is to ensure every students benefits from their course by undertaking the required research and note taking.  This is normally fixed at a 10 or 7 day gap between requests for further course files. It is important to confirm receipt if you wish to work quickly through the course.

There are absolutely no exceptions to the above time restrictions rules.

Minimum ages & language

Long courses = 12 Yrs (less if sharing). We currently have students from 10 - 68.
Short courses and Intermediate Diploma programmes = 16 Yrs.
Students may be UK or overseas based, but must be English speaking & writing to a reasonable standard.

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Prospectus

Full details of the courses and terms and conditions will be found in the Prospectus and on this web site.