Innovative Science Teaching for FE Staff

Our Innovative Science Teaching: Practical Skills & Inclusive Strategies for FE Staff Course is aimed at teachers in Further Education (FE) colleges, delivering science and technical subjects, who are eager to enhance their practical teaching skills.

Drone workshop with students in a field

New incubator programme for Cotswold start-ups launches at the Royal Agricultural University

17 April 2025

The Growth Hub Cirencester, the business hub situated in the grounds of the Royal Agricultural University, has launched a new incubator programme, Cotswold Catalyst, for Cotswold start-ups.

 

The programme, funded by Cotswold District Council, offers an outstanding opportunity for high potential start-ups in the Cotswolds to take their business to the next level, preparing them to scale and grow.

Dame Helen Ghosh to deliver this year's Bledisloe Lecture at the Royal Agricultural University

17 April 2025

Former British civil servant and Director-General of the National Trust, Dame Helen Ghosh, who is now Master of Balliol College, Oxford, is to deliver the Royal Agricultural University’s (RAU) esteemed Bledisloe Lecture next month.

Dame Helen Ghosh

Postgraduate accommodation offer

Get your meals for free during term time! 

This offer is for international postgraduate students joining in September 2025 who sign up and pay in advance for on-campus accommodation. You will receive:

  • Two free meals per day
  • Seven days per week
  • Term time only
  • You will pay £201 per week

Eligibility

To be eligible for the offer you must:

Oliver O'Brien

My RAU experience

I chose to come to the RAU because I wanted to study a course that gave me a clear direction post university. The RAU is well regarded within the land and property industry and as a RICS accredited degree it opens up an infinite number of doors in regards to graduate schemes.

Etai Phiri

My RAU experience

I joined the RAU because I was looking for a course that integrated business with agriculture. There have been many highlights studying at the RAU, however one that stands out was when during one of my modules we had guest lectures come and talk about their respective area of expertise. I’ve found that the small size of the university means that you are known personally by your lecturers and they are more willing to have one on one chats and respond to emails, and having those smaller lecture sessions results in more detailed learning.

Pioneering Indian ecologist to deliver free public lecture at the Royal Agricultural University

11 April 2025

Pioneering Indian ecologist, farmer, and scientist Dr Debal Deb is to deliver a free public lecture at the Royal Agricultural University next month.



Dr Deb has worked with farmers in eastern India to conserve indigenous seed diversity and, over almost two decades, he has managed to save more than 1,000 varieties of rice, all of which he stores in community-based seed banks in West Bengal and Odisha where they can be made available for farmers.

Transcript of Postgraduate Virtual Open Day introduction video

Hello and a very warm welcome to our postgraduate virtual open day, we're really pleased that you 

can join us. All of the sessions are being run live today at the times listed on the programme just down below on the screen, they're all being recorded so if you want to watch anything back on demand you can do that after the event.

I'm joined here today by Emily, one of our post-graduate business students. Emily, what's your favourite thing about the course that you're studying?

Royal Agricultural University collaborates with the Women's University in Africa

8 April 2025

A special partnership designed to specifically benefit and empower women farmers in Zimbabwe has been launched by the Royal Agricultural University (RAU).

 

The new collaboration, which is being led by RAU Senior Lecturer in Agricultural Technology Dr Patricia Mathabe, the Cirencester-based university is working with the Women's University in Africa (WUA), in Zimbabwe’s capital city Harare, to develop a one-year Foundation Certificate in Horticulture and Agriculture.

PhD Studentship - Revitalising British Hops: Harnessing Wildflowers for a Greener Future

Closing date: 22 May 2025

Interview date: 2 June 2025

Start date: 15 September 2025

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