ERS Practical Experience
Welcome to ERS Practical Experience - the preparation and administrative module for your mandatory practical experience.
By gaining practical experience and applying coursework theory to workplace situations during your studies, you should be in a good position to prepare for and enter permanent avenues of employment following the completion of your degree. The purpose of 'Practical Experience' is to provide students with opportunities to examine how properties and various agribusinesses are managed, to identify the factors which limit production and efficient resource management, to develop skills in the assessment of management and to relate components of the curriculum to agricultural practice.
We encourage Students to take up opportunities for International Work Experience which is covered under UNE insurance providing that the same process has been followed for a domestic placement and appropriate forms have been submitted and approved prior to the placement. Students are responsible for ALL associated travel and relevant costs.
Practical experience is a mandatory part of your ERS course and it is administered through the Clinical Placement Office. You will not be eligible to graduate until you have satisfied the practical experience (PRACAG/PRACRURSC/PRACANSC) component of your award.
The process to undertaking Practical Experience is a 2 step process on InPlace
Enterprise Categories
Bachelor of Rural Science students are required to complete work on a minimum of four categories. Bachelor of Agriculture, Bachelor of Animal Science, Bach of Ag/Business and Bach of Ag/Law students on a minimum of three categories.
Categories
- Dryland cropping
- Irrigation cropping
- Horticulture (vegetables, flowers, fruit and nuts)
- Viticulture
- Forestry
- Grazing sheep
- Grazing beef
- Dairy
- Pigs
- Poultry (layers or broilers)
- Feedlot beef
- Alternative animal systems (e.g. aquaculture, goats, horses, dogs, wildlife, veterinary etc.)
- Volunteer & Outreach (RFS, SES, RSPCA, WIRES, show committee, HSC booster days, school visits etc) max 2 weeks
- Agribusiness (e.g. merchandising, agronomic advisors, agricultural contracting {shearing, bug checking etc.})
- Research and Regulatory (University labs, CSIRO, State government DPI, APVMA, private research organisations natural resource management {Landcare, Catchment Management Authorities}, National Parks)
- Approved special courses (Farm Chemicals, Meat Judging, Artificial Insemination, etc)
NOTE: Students may work on their own family property/agribusiness/animal enterprise for a maximum of 4 weeks. Students can apply for practical experience that has already been completed to meet up to half of the requirements, in circumstances as listed in the Prac Experience MyLearn site. Each application will be considered individually and is not automatically granted. Applications for Work Placement that has already been completed prior to the commencement of the degree MUST be lodged within the first trimester of commencing your degree. Please enrol in the Practical Experience unit for your course, and check the MyLearn site for details.
