Pilkington Farms Partnership Prize awarded to Real Estate and Land Management Student

07 Oct 2021

Congratulations to RELM student Alice Crump who has won this year’s Pilkington Farms Partnership Prize which has paid for her final year’s tuition fees.

Alice, who has just gone into the third year of her BSc (Hons) Rural Land Management course, won the prize for being the top performing student in her second year.

She is the first winner of the prize, introduced last year by the Pilkington Farms Partnership and the RAU, which is designed to reward academic performance and to celebrate excellence and innovation in real estate and land management.

Chinese HE entrepreneur joins RAU Vice-Presidents and student’s favourite to receive RAU honours

04 Oct 2021

Chinese higher education entrepreneur Tiger Wang, RAU Vice-Presidents Lord Bathurst and Simon Pott, and former Student Liaison Office Sarah Tennant-Bell, all received honours at the RAU’s recent Graduation ceremony.

Tiger Wang, Lord Bathurst, and Sarah Tennant-Bell all became honorary fellows of the RAU while Simon Pott was presented with the University’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award.

RAU signs up to new scheme to ensure quality of international teaching

03 Sep 2021

The RAU is delighted to announce that it is one of the first UK universities to have signed up to a new scheme from the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA).

Commissioned by Universities UK and GuildHE as a voluntary exercise to demonstrate the commitment of UK higher education to deliver high quality trans national education (TNE) experiences for students, the Quality Evaluation and Enhancement of UK Transnational Higher Education Provision (QE-TNE) scheme relates to benchmarking and assuring the quality and standards of international teaching provision by UK univ

Professor Peter McCaffery takes the reins at the RAU

13 Sep 2021

Professor Peter McCaffery has been appointed as Vice-Chancellor at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) for the new academic year 2021-22, replacing Professor Jo Price who left last month.

Professor McCaffery, who has been Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the RAU since January, has worked in the higher education sector for more than 35 years and has leadership, management, teaching, and research experience across a range of institutions from further education colleges to USA Ivy League universities.

Graham Pollard appointed to new role of Chief Operating Officer at Royal Agricultural University

13 Sep 2021

Former University of Liverpool Director of Operations Graham Pollard has joined the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) as its Chief Operating Officer, a new role borne out of the University’s recent review of Professional Services.

Graham joined the RAU earlier this year from the University of Liverpool where he spent the last six years as Director of Operations for the university’s Faculty of Health & Life Sciences.

Jordans and The Prince’s Countryside Fund launch Year Three of their Sustainable Agriculture Bursary

22 Jul 2021

Prospective undergraduates at the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) and the University of Reading are invited to apply for the Jordans and The Prince’s Countryside Fund Sustainable Agriculture Bursary. Successful applicants will get £5,000 of funding throughout their degree.

The Sustainable Agriculture Bursary will fund UK based undergraduate students under the age of 35 to support their academic studies and help pursue their interest in, and knowledge of, sustainable farming and agricultural practices.

9th century Anglo-Saxon cave house - that may have once been home to a king - identified in Derbyshire

15 Jul 2021

A near-complete Anglo-Saxon dwelling and oratory, believed to date from the early 9th century, has been discovered in Derbyshire by archaeologists from the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) and Wessex Archaeology.

Archaeologists from the RAU’s newly-formed Cultural Heritage Institute, working with colleagues from Wessex Archaeology, undertook a detailed survey of the grade II listed Anchor Church Caves between Foremark and Ingleby in South Derbyshire.

Royal Agricultural University welcomes the publication of Government’s National Food Strategy

15 Jul 2021

Statement from Professor Joanna Price, Vice-Chancellor of the Royal Agricultural University (RAU), in response to today’s publication of the National Food Strategy:

“Maintaining food security in the face of climate change is one of our major global challenges and, as a society, it is our responsibility to address the challenges and dilemmas about how, and where, our food is produced, how we all can equally access nutritious food, and the role of individuals, communities, businesses, and government in developing food chains fit for the future.

School Farms Network Conference and Awards hosted by the RAU

14 Jul 2021

Schools from across the UK came together virtually at the weekend to celebrate the benefits of incorporating outdoor learning and school farms into education.

The fourth School Farms Network Conference and Awards was hosted by the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) and run in partnership between the RAU and the School Farms Network (SFN), part of Social Farms & Gardens, which consists of more than 116 school farms across the UK.

RAU announces exciting new partnership with Vytautus Magnus University in Lithuania

02 Jul 2021

The Royal Agricultural University (RAU) is delighted to have joined forces with the Vytautus Magnus University (VMU) in Lithuania.

RAU Vice Chancellor Jo Price, and Pro-Vice Chancellor (International) Neil Ravenscroft, virtually joined a formal ceremony at the British Embassy in Vilnius recently where a memorandum of understanding with Vytautas Magnus University&nbsp

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