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Professional Work Experience is a central part of the Animal Science-Equine programme, permitting advancement of your knowledge and skills within the equine industry. As well as contributing to your degree, PWE will make a valuable contribution to developing the skills required for the workplace. Regardless of your current equine interests or background, it should be seen as a valuable opportunity to broaden your knowledge of the international equine industry and to develop important relationships with potential future employers and colleagues at home and abroad. It is highly recommended that part, or all, of your PWE placement is spent on a stud/breeding farm. It is also recommended that students use their work experience within the equine industry as an opportunity to generate ideas and questions that they may wish to address in their Equine Science Project during Stage 4. Specific assessment guidelines for Equine PWE are available on Blackboard to registered students.Students must familiarise themselves with and abide by the regulations for PWE as set out by the Agricultural Sciences Programme Board. For each placement, a host contract must be completed, signed by the host and received by UCD, before the placement will be deemed to have commenced by UCD. Furthermore, placements (and parts thereof) which have been completed in the absence of an appropriately completed host contract will not be accepted. Only in the most exceptional circumstances will any deviation from this requirement be permitted and this must have the agreement, in writing, of the PWE co-ordinator.