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Apply to BACBECC

So, you are ready to apply to BACBECC. This page covers everything you need to know and do to apply.

Step zero

Before you apply

Make sure of five things:

  • You have completed Canine Essential 101. Keep your completion date and the name and email you enrolled under handy — the application asks for them, and we verify against our records.
  • You are 18 or older.
  • You have read the policies below. Three are summarised on this page, along with the code of conduct you'll be governed by. The application asks you to confirm you've read them.
  • You understand the commitment. Around 7–14 hours a week, at a pace of one or two exercises a week, for up to 15 months — and a monthly fee for as long as you're on the course. The details are in the policy summaries below.
  • You understand course details, including what you'll learn and how. You can find details on the course page.
The process

How admission works

  1. You apply. The form at the bottom of this page asks for your contact details, your CE101 details, a set of declarations against the BHARCS Code, and five short personal statements: why you want to do BACBECC, your understanding of an approach that does not include training, your biggest takeaway from CE101, how you handle critique, and why you believe you can complete the course. The statements help you and us determine whether this course is right for you. Give yourself unhurried time to write them.
  2. We review your application. We verify your CE101 completion and read your statements. You'll hear from us within two weeks of applying.
  3. If shortlisted, you do a sample exercise. You'll get access to our student portal and the first three exercises of BACBECC, each built around one of the skills the course runs on: critical reasoning, handling a dog the BHARCS way, or observation with an eye for detail. You choose one to complete. Either pick one that plays to your strengths and shows us how you'll learn best OR attempt your weakest, to see for yourself whether that kind of work discourages you. We are both assessing fit in this way.
  4. You experience one full feedback cycle. A tutor reviews your submission and returns feedback; you revise and resubmit. This is the single most important step, for both sides. The whole course works this way — submit, receive critique, revise — and the critique is direct. We see whether you can use feedback constructively, and you see whether you want to work this way for the length of a course. Thus this entrance exercise is a trial run.
  5. Decision. If we offer you a place, you'll receive an acceptance email. You then agree to the terms, pay your first monthly installment, and your seat is confirmed.
  6. You begin. You're enrolled into the first module and off you go.
Required reading

The policies

Read these before applying. These policies give you the details on how to navigate the course.

BACBECC Policies and Procedure — BACBECC is self-paced with no fixed deadline. Plan for roughly 7–14 hours a week, working through one or two exercises a week, with the whole course taking up to 15 months. The full policy, including how assessment and grading work, is better digested once you're enrolled, but if you'd like to read ahead here's the link. Read the full policy

Submissions Policy and Guidelines — How learning works at BHARCS is a bit different. We don't reward performance; we support learning. The emphasis is not on how well you do an exercise but on how much you learn from it and how well you handle feedback and critique.

The course uses a continuous assessment format and not one final exam.

Since it is a self-paced course, the biggest risk is you not keeping pace. So, to keep you moving, we have limits on how much time you can take between exercises, and we enforce them. You can read up on the specifics of the time limits and enforcement once you begin or read ahead now. Read the full policy

Enrollment, Fees and Extensions Policy — The fee is a monthly subscription of 100 USD / ₹8,500 (revised annually), paid month by month for as long as you're on the course. So your total cost depends on your pace. At one submission a week, plan for the course taking up to 15 months. Your seat is confirmed only once the first payment is received. There are no refunds on advanced courses, and if fees fall more than a month behind, enrollment is suspended until dues are cleared. If unavoidable circumstances stop you paying on time, there's a leave form. Use it before the due date, not after. Read the full policy

The BHARCS Code — Alongside these policies is the BHARCS Code — a code of conduct you will need to adhere to. The application asks you to declare your practices against it, so read it in full before you apply. Read the Code

(The complete list of our policies is on the Policies page.)

What happens next

After you submit

We'll confirm receipt of your application by email. We review applications within two weeks. If anything in your application needs clarifying, we may contact you for documents, a conversation, or both. Questions at any point: learn@bharcs.com. Add that address to your contacts so our emails don't land in spam.

The form

The application

Section A

Contact details

Gender

The organization you currently work for.

If you work with animals, describe your work (optional)
Section B

CE101 details

We verify completion against our records.

Section C

The BHARCS Code declarations

These declarations are made against the BHARCS Code — read it in full before answering.

Have you gone over the BHARCS Code and are sure you will not be in violation of it at any point of time?
Will you proactively seek a BHARCS audit for your professional practises?
Do you understand that BHARCS works on an honour system and so expects 100% honesty from students
For each of the following, select the statement that describes your practice:
Participate in large dog events
Breed dogs (home or commercial)
Train dogs using dominance techniques
Obedience training using R+
Host multiple dogs in one space at a time
Sell/use products like choke collars, martingales, shock collars and bark collars
Do you sell crates, flat collars, leashes shorter than 3 mtrs or retractable leashes
Do you use flat collars and leashes shorter than 3 mtrs, retractable leashes or crates
Do you advocate the use of any of the products mentioned above?
Section D

Personal statements

A BHARCS student has to be very open to being critiqued rather severely.

BHARCS courses are intense. Students have to be capable of expressing themselves clearly.

Section E

Confirmations & declaration

Your application is in. We review applications within two weeks. If anything needs clarifying, we may contact you for documents, a conversation, or both. Questions at any point: learn@bharcs.com — add that address to your contacts so our emails don't land in spam.

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