Kim's Equine School is an accredited CPD provider!

Ensuring you of the quality of our courses


The CPD Standards Office is an organisation with a world-leading highly specialised expert team. 

Kim's Equine School is dedicated to ensuring that each of our clients is extremely satisfied with all aspects of our courses - this includes the evidence-based content, the training style, and the course assessment... 

Why is this important? 

Multiple professional bodies, associations, and institutes require their members to regularly undergo CPD-accredited training in order to maintain their license to practice or professional qualifications.

With our certified CPD-accredited courses, we offer the opportunity to gain or maintain a specialist level of knowledge on a range of equine-based subjects - all from the comfort of your home, in your own time.

Why Should You Choose Our Courses?

Our courses are always created and reviewed by experts in equine cognition and training.

  • Unlike most providers our courses have been accredited by the CPD Standard's Office, ensuring you of the quality of our content and training style. This also means that the certificates that are provided at the end of our courses are internationally recognised valuable at your place of employment or on your CV.

  • Premier provider in equine training: Our content is always research-based.

  • Our courses aim to provide advanced level learning on specific subects - whilst keeping the cost at a minimum fee.

  • Courses are designed for equestrians of all levels and disciplines; or for any caretaker or owner that has an interest in equine welfare, health, cognition, training, and management.

  • Courses are reviewed regularly to ensure that any new research or evidence can be included in our content.

We Share The Same Passion!

You love horses? We do too! This is where it all started for many of us, including for this school. Equine welfare and well-being are always the focal points of our courses.

Who are our courses directed to?

Higher Education students: Are you studying for an undergraduate or postgraduate degree? Or have you already obtained your degree and would like to further your knowledge in areas that you might have not gotten to learn about at University? Then our courses might just be the perfect fit for you! All of our courses have been written and designed by authors that have obtained their degrees, postgraduate and further diplomas from English Universities – You can therefore be assured of the content that you will be getting.

Thinking about a change in your career or going back to school? Going back to University is a big financial investment, especially when you are unsure if it is something that you really want or can do from a time perspective… Our courses have been designed by authors that have already obtained their qualifications from some of the Universities that you might be considering – our courses therefore allow you to get a head start on some of the content that you will be considering, and they allow to gauge if this might be the right step for you.


Or are you simply a horse lover that wants to learn more about horses, the way that they are thinking, how to best work and communicate with them, improve your horse's current conditions, and your training efficiency? You might have recently encountered new behaviors that you are struggling to understand, what could they mean, and what aspects should you consider to resolve any discomfort? Then our courses are made for you! Our friendly tutors are available to help you throughout the courses to ensure that you are 100% happy and comfortable with the content.

Do you currently work in a profession that requires you to undertake regular courses to ensure that you keep your knowledge up to date, and your license to work in this industry? We are proud to work with CPD Standards Office to ensure that our courses meet the highest standards - A CPD accredited course will allow to take this credit to maintain your professional license. More information on the CPD hours of each courses is available on the ''All Courses'' tab.


Take your current equine knowledge to the next level with our specialist courses


Humans have trained horses for centuries now, our training methods and our aims within training have evolved immensely over time. Our courses recognise the history surrounding equine training, but they also aim to break down some of the barriers set up in this sport. Some unfounded principles tend to be believed on a word-to-mouth basis, and often that does not improve the welfare or training efficiency.

Are you interested in being a student?

  • The level of difficulty of our courses is always stated clearly so that you can find the right fit,
  • We have taken steps to ensure that our courses are internationally valuable and recognizable - therefore wherever you are living or planning on working with horses you are assured that it will add value to your employability,
  • Multiple disciplines are considered within each course (jumping, barrel racing, harness racing...) so the learning can be applicable to you,
  • Behavioral issues are unfortunately still very common in most disciplines - although it is becoming more popular for horses to have a second or even third career in their lifetime, they can also remember past distress and discomfort. Our courses are designed to help you in dealing with those, by also broadening your knowledge outside of the traditional paths,
  • Equine cognition knowledge and understanding will spontaneously improve your experiences with horses.


Did You Know...

The story of Black Beauty, written by Anna Sewell, and published in 1877, is one of the first mentions of depressive states in horses... The allusion to this state or anything resembling learned helplessness has then been extremely rare in scientific literature and in our training guides up until very recently.

What is Equine Welfare?

'Welfare is a chronic positive mental and physical state resulting from the satisfaction of the animal’s behavioural and physiological needs and expectations. This state can vary according to the perception of the situation by the animal’ Hausberger et al, 2019.

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After the purchase of a course, it is normal to sometimes find some principles more difficult to understand than others; or maybe you'd like to have more information on a specific topic... 

We understand that having to wait 2 to 3 business days for help on any of those matters is far from ideal. This can even stop you from progressing for a while, especially when balancing your learning with other life commitments. This is why we have ensured that your email will be acknowledged immediately so that a tutor can start working with you on your request within a record amount of time. This includes weekends and international bank holidays.

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How did these principles come about, and why should they be considered within our training and management practices...
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Why broaden our knowledge in equine cognition and behavior?

Inappropriate behaviors were found to be the main reason for the majority of horses that were sent to slaughterhouses, according to Odberg and Bouissou's study (1999).

‘Increased levels of competence in horse training could be useful for equine technicians, owners, breeders, veterinarians, and scientists, in order to safeguard horse welfare, and also to reduce the number of human injuries and economic loss for civil society and the public health system’ Baragli et al, 2015

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