Any vet nurses (career advice?)

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Hi my DD is currently in her 2nd year of A levels and looking at the options for university/apprenticeship for training to be an RVN.
She's leaning towards the uni route, and looking at work experience and the possibility of an apprenticeship (though we can't seem to find any advertised or what the likelihood of one being available in our area is at the moment)
We've approached all the veterinary surgeries in the area about work experience and the possibility of an apprenticeship being available once she's finished college, and volunteering on an ongoing basis and got nothing back.
She needs at minimum 10 days work experience for university, but we're really struggling to find anyone that will facilitate this, and nothing about apprenticeship either.
I've never been to university, all this is new to me and she's not getting a lot through college (well that's what she tells me 🤔) and I need some advice on how to put my foot up her arse help her with this.
Is anyone training to be a vet nurse, or is one and can offer any advice at all?
I realise the lack of response to date is likely to be covid related, and that vets are busy people working under strained conditions at the moment and taking on a work experience student isn't high on their priorities right now.
Anyone have any tips or advice? Is the university or apprenticeship pathway deemed more preferred by prospective employers?
Many thanks.

Does she need work experience in a vets? When I was interested in being a vet they wanted animal experience but not just pets/having horses. Eg an animal sanctuary, boarding kennels, farm etc would all count. I think she'll find it easier to find shadowing in outside environments with COVID and smaller animal charities might be grateful for support with outside animals.

Admittedly this was 10 years ago but my sister is a RVN, she took the route after GCSE’s joining an agricultural college who also did vet nursing courses. During this the college arranged for her to do work at experience/ training at a local vets, once she had finished the course the vets kept her on and she has worked her way up the ranks as this particular vets pays their nurses to do specialised training.

I’d second the idea of non vet work experience at present. Lots of practices aren’t taking work experience students, only vet students, to keep covid risk at bay. And VN training places are hard to come by sadly. Definitely write round as many as you can to see if she can find someone looking for a trainee. The colleges are happy to take students on but finding a training spot is hard. Good luck to her.