Ex-college student joins innovate vet course

A former Derby College Group animal care student has become one of the first undergraduates in the country to enrol on an innovative new veterinary degree programme.

Liberty Stamp-Hanes is among an initial cohort of just 78 students nationally to get a place on the Bachelor Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVMS) course at UCLan, the University of Central Lancashire.

The programme, at the university’s new state-of-the art veterinary school, aims to innovate through technology and by encouraging students to take up clinical placements in their first year.

Liberty completed the Extended Technical Diploma in Animal Management – Level 3 at  Derby College Group’s Broomfield Hall with triple distinction.

Liberty, who is 19 and from Heanor, said: “My college personal tutor and course manager was always there for me. She pushed me to get my place at UCLan. I wouldn’t have got it without her.

“The new degree programme is very popular, and I’m pleased to be among the first cohort of students.”