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- Council Members
- Role of Council Members
- Council meetings
- Council elections
- Previous election results
- Dr Louise Allum
- Dr Sam Bescoby
- Dr Andrew Clemence
- Dr Tshidi Gardiner
- Dr Reginald Godwin
- Paddy Gordon
- Dr Danielle Greenberg
- Dr Gerard Henry
- Dr Richard Hillman
- Dr Benjamin Kennedy
- Dr Tom Lonsdale
- Dr Darren Partridge
- Martin Peaty
- Alison Price
- Dr Peter Robinson
- Dr Jennifer Simmons
- Dr Sadie Spencer
- Dr Mary Thomas
- William Wilkinson
- Dr Lara Wilson
- Past-Presidents
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- Advancement of the Professions Committee
- Standards Committee
- Audit and Risk Committee
- Education Committee
- Disciplinary Committee
- Charter Case Committee
- Preliminary Investigation Committee and Disciplinary Committee Liaison Committee
- Registration Committee
- Preliminary Investigation Committee
- Paper classification: some definitions
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- About extra-mural studies (EMS)
- EMS requirements
- Information for vet students
- Information for EMS providers
- Information for vet schools
- Temporary EMS requirements
- Practice by students - regulations
- Health and safety on EMS placements
- EMS contacts and further guidance
- Extra-mural studies fit for the future
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- Code of Professional Conduct for Veterinary Surgeons
- Code of Professional Conduct for Veterinary Nurses
- Contact the Advice Team
- XL Bully dog ban
- 'Under care' - guidance
- Advice on Schedule 3
- Controlled Drugs Guidance – A to Z
- Dealing with Difficult Situations webinar recordings
- FAQs – Common medicines pitfalls
- FAQs – Routine veterinary practice and clinical veterinary research
- FAQs – Advertising of practice names
- GDPR – RCVS information and Q&As
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- Accrediting veterinary degrees
- Accrediting veterinary nursing qualifications
- Reasonable adjustments for student vets
- Reasonable adjustments for student veterinary nurses
- Health and disability in veterinary nurse education and training
- Reasonable adjustments for students and the UK disability discrimination legislation
- Educational assessment of veterinary nurses
- Roles of key stakeholders in the application of reasonable adjustments
- Examples of reasonable adjustments for vet nurse students
- External review of the RCVS by ENQA
- Requirements for remote and online student assessments
Accreditation Events
For a veterinary degree to be approved for registration purposes by the College, the course must meet RCVS criteria as well as UK and European legislative requirements.
We undertake formal accreditation events to veterinary schools to monitor the standard of approved degrees.
We also liaise with the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), which carries out quality assurance monitoring on behalf of the English and Scottish funding councils.
Veterinary schools were visited by QAA subject review teams during 1999 / 2000, and reports on the findings can be found on the QAA website.
In 2001, we collaborated with the QAA and the (then) six UK veterinary schools to produce the Benchmark Statement for Veterinary Science which describes what a veterinary degree should cover, lists the knowledge and skills included within the courses and also includes an early version of our 'essential competences'.
The statement includes expressions of the "professional / employment related abilities that graduates in veterinary science would be expected to have developed during their higher education and associated practice based experiences".
Following our visitation to a UK university, RCVS Council makes a recommendation to the Privy Council as to whether recognition should continue. For other non-European veterinary degrees, RCVS Council may recommend recognition directly.
On European educational issues, we liaise with the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE), and with the European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education (EAEVE) which conducts visitations to European schools.
The FVE and EAEVE websites contain links to all the veterinary schools in Europe, as well as providing more information on the evaluation systems employed.
We have an agreement with Australia and New Zealand, to support the continued recognition of Australasian veterinary degrees.
An agreement is also in place between RCVS and the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) to facilitate the recognition of AVMA approved qualifications.
We have agreements with both the South African Veterinary Council (SAVC) and the Veterinary Council of Ireland (VCI) to facilitate registration of graduates from the University of Pretoria and University College Dublin respectively.