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.
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.
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.
New report lays out how the UK can unlock solutions to the pressures on land
2 April 2025
From tree planting to house building, it is estimated that an area more than twice the size of Wales is needed to meet all the UK’s land use policy targets.
Yet there is no more land. If we want to meet these targets, we need to be innovative with how we use the land we have.
Wildfarmed’s Andy Cato to deliver inaugural lecture to celebrate university’s 180th anniversary
27 March 2025
Wildfarmed co-founder, National Trust tenant farmer, and one half of the iconic duo Groove Armada, Andy Cato is coming to the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) next month to deliver the first in a series of six lectures celebrating the institution’s 180th anniversary.
Andy, who sold his music rights to buy a farm in France in 2013 after hearing about the horrors of the industrial food system, will be joining the RAU’s Professor of Agriculture Nicola Cannon for their lecture
