Royal Agricultural University Cirencester Real world UNDERGRADUATE COURSES FOR THE REAL WORLD 2019 Know how 2 Our reputation speaks for itself. High graduate A powerful employability global network of 15k 15,000 alumni 89% Learning % Community 95on average over the past five years 89% of students feel part of the RAU community

Our graduates have placements and careers Industry links with prestigious global companies 1st safest Established in 1845, the first agricultural Safest university in institution in the England and Wales English-speaking 1845 world 3

A diverse and multicultural community Find your place with students from 45 countries in our friendly community and thrive with academic and 45 peer support 87% Student satisfaction

1st for carbon Scenic Experts reduction* A picturesque campus Staff who are experts nestled in 25 acres of beautiful in their fields and Cotswold countryside visiting speakers who are captains of industry *In relation to floor area 48 Award-winning student businesses enterprise High completion rates launched programme 13th out of 126 universities in the UK 82% success rate, providing tailored for undergraduate completion rates compared with 44% nationally* support at all levels in The Times and The Sunday Times of business start-up Good University Guide 2018

*Office for National Statistics 4

Welcome to the Royal Agricultural University

The RAU has been at the forefront of Our portfolio of undergraduate courses has been specifically agricultural education and a key contributor designed to help students realise their potential, whether to the land-based sector for more than 170 they have their sights set on further study or a career in the years. land-based professions. Our academics care about their We pride ourselves in combining the knowledge and subjects and their students. Working alongside business industry connections which stem from our rich heritage with leaders and employers, they deliver courses that provide an innovative, forward-thinking and enterprising approach. students with the tools, mindset and networks they need It is this proven combination which continues to open to embrace the opportunities ahead and play essential, doors for our students. RAU graduates leave prepared for leading roles in shaping the future of the industry. The successful careers in their chosen field, whether that be reach and influence of the RAU alumni network worldwide leading innovation and change in industry, informing future is extraordinary. land-based policy, or setting up their own businesses; which Set on the edge of Cirencester in the beautiful Cotswold many of our entrepreneurial students do with great success. countryside, our small size provides a real sense of The current global challenges of food security, climate community amongst students and staff, which supports, change and Brexit provide unprecedented opportunities for develops and encourages undergraduates from all the land-based sector and, importantly, for our graduates. backgrounds to achieve their ambitions. The need to produce more food in a sustainable way, I hope that you choose to join us, this is a unique place to protecting the environment, boosting the rural economy study and I have never met anyone who didn’t enjoy their and enhancing its communities, creates a wealth of career time here. To get a sense of the RAU community and what opportunities; making this an ideal time to choose to study we can offer you please come to one of our open days. at the RAU.

Professor Joanna Price Vice-Chancellor 5

Open Make sure you book your place days at www.rau.ac.uk/opendays Our open days are the perfect opportunity to find out what Dates for your diary: it’s like to live and study at the Saturday 10 March 2018 Royal Agricultural University Monday 9 April 2018 After visiting an in Cirencester. Monday 25 June 2018 RAU open day, I Join us to discover the range fell in love with its charm Monday 10 September 2018 and the wonderful people. of courses on offer, meet Saturday 29 September 2018 It very quickly became my our students and lecturers, home where I can say I have tour our beautiful Cotswold Saturday 13 October 2018 made friends for life. My campus, and ask any Wednesday 24 October 2018 course provided so much questions you have. enrichment and variety, it has Wednesday 7 November 2018 opened up doors that I never could have imagined.” Jennifer Winnett Discover RAU Discover RAU www. Join us for our two-day residential taster course and rau.ac.uk/ discover what life is like as a student at the RAU. discoverrau Wednesday 27 – Thursday 28 June 2018 6 Contents The The University courses Introduction Agriculture Business and Enterprise Open days 5 BSc (Hons) Agriculture 44 BSc (Hons) Students’ Union 8 BSc (Hons) Applied Farm Management 46 International Business Management 72 Clubs and societies 10 FdSc Agriculture and Farm Management 48 BSc (Hons) International Business Management Your Week 14 FdSc Animal Science 50 (Food and Agribusiness) 74 Time out 16 BSc (Hons) FdSc Business and Enterprise Agricultural Management (top-up) 52 76 Enterprise 18 One Year Farming 54 RAU farms 20 Equine Management and Science Rural innovation 22 Food Supply and Management BSc (Hons) Sustainability 24 Applied Equine Science and Business 80 Student resources 26 BSc (Hons) Food Production and Supply Management 58 BSc (Hons) Work experience 28 Bloodstock and Performance Horse Management 82 Accommodation 30 Environment BSc (Hons) Student support 34 FdSc British Wildlife Conservation 62 International Equine and Agricultural Business International students 36 FdSc Management 84 Environmental Conservation Research 38 and Heritage Management 64 BSc (Hons) Equine Studies (top-up) 86 Employability 40 BSc (Hons) Real Estate Countryside Management (top-up) 66 Further information BSc (Hons) Real Estate 90 BSc (Hons) Partner colleges 98 Wildlife and Countryside Diploma Real Estate Valuation 92 Fees and funding 100 Management (top-up) 68 Rural Land Management Admissions 102 BSc (Hons) Rural Land Management 96 Entry requirements 104 How to find us 106

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“The University has an important role to play in providing courses of the highest standard, open to students from all over the world.” University President, HRH The Prince of Wales

For a full list of members of staff We are honoured to have been given the Royal seal of approval. Queen Victoria and governors, granted a Royal Charter to the RAU in 1845. Sovereigns have been patrons ever please visit since, visiting the institution in every reign. His Royal Highness the Prince of www.rau.ac.uk Wales became President in 1982 and recently presented awards to students at graduation.

Patron Vice Presidents Chair of Governors Vice-Chancellor HM The Queen The Earl Bathurst, MRAC The Rt. Hon Michael Jack Professor Joanna Price, BSc, BVSc (Bristol), PhD President Mr Simon Pott, FRICS, (Sheff) HRH The Prince of Wales FRAgS, FInstCPD, FRAU 8

@myrausu Belonging @rausu_official A message from our Students’ Union @rausu_official The Students’ Union at the RAU is extremely active Work hard, play hard! throughout the year. It is dedicated to representing each and The unofficial motto amongst the students of the Royal every student academically, socially and whilst out on the Agricultural University is ‘work hard, play hard!’ and this is sports field. On the one hand, this involves assisting students certainly what our students do. Freshers’ Ball with any problems that they may encounter, on the other, it The Tithe Barn provides a common room area during the day involves maintaining the University’s legendary reputation for for students to meet up with their friends and a student bar social and sporting activities. during the evening to catch up on the day’s activities. It also At Cirencester, many of the traditions and clubs are as old provides a venue for many social functions, ranging from as the buildings themselves. All students are encouraged live music and club nights, to themed evenings, as well as to meet with the Students’ Union to discuss new ideas to being a place to relax, play pool, watch TV or have a drink add to the social calendar. This includes fantastic activities, in the bar. societies and some of the country’s finest events and balls. The Students’ Union organise sports socials and events in You’ll be supported throughout your time here by lecturers, the Tithe Barn at weekends and there are various country personal tutors, the student support services team, and a pubs in the area that welcome students. The Retreat Café strong and proactive Students’ Union, who are all on hand features a coffee bar and provides a quiet space to catch up to help you make the most of your time at the RAU. The with friends. relatively small size of the University makes it one of the friendliest and most supportive in the country. So, if you decide to come to the RAU, you’ll not only study towards a highly-regarded qualification, but you’ll also make life-long friends, join an alumni network which spans the globe and enjoy the occasional Friday evening in the Students’ Union bar: the Tithe Barn.

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African Caribbean night RAG tractor pull RAG rugby World record attempt for speed networking

Student entrepreneurs at Big Feastival

May Ball

Local charity campaigns

Charity cycling challenge

Charity abseil Chinese New Year 10

Find out more Sports clubs Societies www.rau.ac.uk/ Archery Brewers’ club social Clubs and African Caribbean Caledonian society Beagles Chaplaincy Croquet Choir societies Equestrian Christian Union Fencing Engineering The RAU Students’ Union is passionate about providing Fishing Enterprise society the best possible student experience, with a wide range Choir Football Environmental society of sports, clubs and societies on offer. The Students’ “I joined the choir to Horse riding Food and wine Union welcome as many students as possible to reap the continue singing whilst Lacrosse Racing club benefits of being a member of an RAU team or society and meeting lots of new people. Ladies’ hockey Real estate society encourages students to get involved at whichever level We meet every Thursday Men’s hockey Ski trip they feel comfortable at. and enjoy a high standard Netball of singing in a relaxed Wednesday afternoon is set aside for sports, when many Polo environment.” of the teams compete in the British Universities and Rowing Colleges Sports League. Training takes place throughout Rugby Harriet the week and is arranged by the individual teams with the Running club backing of the Students’ Union. There is a comprehensive Shooting range of facilities for sports, both on and off campus, Snow sports including a gym, an all-weather pitch, tennis courts and Team chasing table tennis tables. Young Farmers Club 11 Men’s hockey “I chose to play men’s hockey for the team ethos, it’s a great way to meet like-minded people and kick-start your University career. We’ve been playing at a very high standard, competing with (and beating!) some much larger universities than our own. We also have some great team socials.” Nick

Skiing “The annual ski trip is for anyone and everyone; whether you’re a seasoned skier, a newbie or just want to enjoy the après ski, it’s one of the biggest trips on the student calendar and should not be missed!” Will 12 Lacrosse “I chose to play lacrosse for the camaraderie. I wanted to be part of a team of like-minded people in order to represent the University and to take my school days of playing lacrosse to a more advanced level.” Henny Rowing Engineering “The rowing club is going from strength “I signed up to the engineering society as I to strength. We train on the water at thought it would benefit my knowledge for least twice a week and on land three to the mechanisation module of my course. It five days a week. The rowing club is a has provided me with hands-on, practical lively group of hard-working, confident experience and huge satisfaction being part athletes who endeavour to enjoy regular of a small team working on the recovery of an team socials and big wins.” old tractor and bringing it back to life! Always H a good laugh and great fun if you don’t mind enry getting your hands dirty.” Sophia 13

Netball Shooting “Netball seemed like the “I joined shooting as I’d natural transition to take had a go previously, really following sixth form and I’m enjoyed it and wanted the pleased I took it. The sports chance to get better. It’s fair at the start of the year lovely participating in an gave me the first glimpse of outdoor activity, allowing the attitude taken by players: you the chance to get relaxed, fun and friendly. out and have some fresh Travelling to matches is always air after lectures on a a great chance to catch up with Wednesday.” the rest of the girls, alongside Wednesday night socials.” Sophia Hannah

Croquet “I enjoyed learning a new sport and competing against other universities in a friendly atmosphere. The croquet club offers good social opportunities and is a great way to relax and meet new people.” Chris 14

Follow our students on Your week a not so typical week at the RAU…

be interested in joining in the future. Friday My weekend officially Imogen Proctor-Coughlan Recently, the Enterprise Society starts at 4pm on Friday when my last BSc (Hons) International organised Julian Dunkerton, the lecture finishes. I will often go to the Business Management founder of Superdry, to talk to students Students’ Union bar in the Tithe Barn about his journey as an entrepreneur. for a few drinks and a dance. It’s a always willing to offer advice and It was inspiring; perhaps one day I will great way to relax after a busy week lecturers hold an open-door policy be a millionaire! and catch up with friends. helping with any coursework problems. The Caledonian Society meet every Saturday and It’s always reassuring to have so much Thursday evening in the Boutflour Sunday support when it comes to coursework Monday It’s a quiet first day for Hall where we run through traditional Each weekend is different at the RAU and deadlines. me at University as I have no lectures. Scottish reels and practice the moves so activities vary. Depending on the This gives me the opportunity to read Wednesday I only have one ready for the annual ball at the end of time of the year, we will visit point to around the more difficult modules lecture on a Wednesday due to RAU November. It is such a fun society to points or the races in Cheltenham. such as Financial Management, which sports. My afternoon usually consists be part of and it is so exciting seeing If we want to stay more local, then I find challenging. This allows me to of either supporting the lacrosse team so many old students and friends a dog walk around Cirencester Park plan my week accordingly around (my housemate is Captain!) or working from other universities coming down followed by coffee and cake at one of lectures and social activities. Monday as a Student Ambassador. to Cirencester to take part in our May the independent coffee shops in town is also a good day to work as a It is a great way to earn extra money Ball. The Caledonian Society is one is always a favourite activity. Saturday Student Ambassador attending local and gain confidence when talking to of the few which involves all students night is sometimes takeaway and careers fairs to promote the RAU and new people. Wednesday afternoon is a from first years to postgraduates and movie night. Sunday is also a steady encourage students to think about perfect mid-week break to do non-uni from beginners to expert reelers. I day catching up with friends from further education, whether this be at things such as shopping or relaxing highly recommend joining when you home and welcoming friends back with RAU or at another college or university. with friends. Wednesday night is arrive at the RAU. home-baked goods! The perfect way to The day can finish with a relaxing drink student night where we celebrate our recharge the batteries. with a group of friends at Seventeen victories on the sports field by visiting Black, a popular bar in town. ReVa night club. This is a full day of Tuesday Thursday is usually a busy Friday, late start, first lecture at 1pm today. It’s all about lectures starting at 11am and finishing day for me as I run the Caledonian building my own personal skills and personal development, at 4pm. It’s normally the first chance Society. My first lecture of the day is with this comes a chance to meet alumni and other students that can I get to catch up with friends from with a visiting lecturer in that field of share their stories on what to progress to, we also polish up out CV’s.” my course. There is a real community expertise. The University has some Harry Butson spirit here at the RAU, people are fantastic links with firms that we may 15

Wednesday The day starts Friday The first lecture is at Harry Butson 1pm today. Its all about building my FdSc Agriculture and Farm for me at 10.30am with Machinery own personal skills and personal Management Management lectures, a great lecture development. This gives us the chance RAU Students’ Union with lots of debate around the subject to meet alumni and other students Secretary, Chairman of RAU of how farms can utilise machinery to that can share their stories on what to Young Farmers Club advance. There are no lectures in the progress to, we also polish our CV’s. afternoon due to sports. If the rugby We can also use this time if we want to Tuesday A later start on team are at home, lots of students schedule interviews with businesses. Tuesday starting at 11am with Animal will go to support. However, on a quiet Friday night is a great night in the Tithe Production, giving me time in the Wednesday, I go into town to get some Barn! The SU always arrange a DJ and Monday This is the busiest morning to do some SU work and plan lunch or meet with some friends from normally some theme, but it’s a great day of the week for me, with lectures for the Friday ahead. With only one further afield. Wednesday usually way to bring in the weekend! After Uni, beginning at 9am. Starting off with lecture today, I use the spare time in finishes with a night out in ReVA. I go to work in town but finish around 11-12pm so I can meet up with Agri Policy and Legislation, then a the afternoon to finish off coursework Thursday A 9am morning lecture is everyone in the Tithe. quick break in The Retreat Café to get and plan the monthly ‘Student Voice’ not the best after a Wednesday night, Saturday and a coffee then onto my next lecture of meetings that encourage all students but with coffee in hand the lecture is Sunday I work most of Saturday, Crop Management, before heading to have their say. Tuesday evenings an interesting one all about Livestock but it’s a good time to get coursework out to the RAU’s Harnhill Manor Farm are also when the RAU Young Production. On Thursdays I’m normally done. It’s not an early morning due to walk around the fields and discuss Farmers Club meet, from butchery in the Students’ Union helping to to the night before, but the library is the next steps in the crop season. demonstrations, machinery dealer organise our termly Balls, Friday night usually a good place to start. All of this is useful to write up into tours and talks from agricultural socials or weekend trips. Recently, a final report for the end of year. My industry professionals, it brings myself and the SU Chairman have lectures finish at 1pm, however I have together students from all courses been going to University meetings, on a weekly meeting with the Students’ with a shared passion. We end the a Thursday, the last was Governing Union to discuss the week ahead and night with a social at a local pub in Council where we take the students’ On Friday my 1pm what social activities are coming up. town. Another role is working with the views to the Governors and Vice- lecture is all about Mondays finish with a night out at Alumni and Development office. Chancellors Executive Group. After all building my own personal skills Seventeen Black for a catch up from As Chairman of the 1845 Committee, the meetings I go home and cook with and personal development. This over the weekend. I communicate with the RAU alumni to my housemates. gives us the chance to meet see what they’re getting up to now and alumni and other students that if they can offer our current students can share their stories on what any advice, jobs or scholarships. to progress to, we also polish I recently went to the Cheltenham our CV’s.” Festival to meet alumni face-to-face Harry Butson and hear stories about their time at the RAU. 16 Time out With its pretty Cotswold stone streets, medieval wool The great merchants’ houses and busy market place, it’s easy outdoors to see why so many students never want to leave Cirencester has plenty of Cirencester, even after graduating! green space to enjoy. Cirencester Cirencester, known as the ‘Capital of the Cotswolds’ is a Park in the centre of the town is an ideal thriving student town with a great sense of history, awash place to take your books and revise in the sun. with museums, art galleries, speciality shops, boutiques, In the warmer months, many students enjoy swimming delis and antiques and collectables markets. in natural spring water at the park Lido, the oldest open-air Just a 20-minute stroll from the RAU campus, the market swimming pool in the UK dating back to 1869. town has an eclectic, artisan feel popular with all ages. For the sportier individuals, Cotswold Water Park offers However, the more serious shoppers head to Bath and kayaking, canoeing, sailing, rowing, wakeboarding and Cheltenham or the fashionable designer outlet villages in windsurfing across its magnificent 150 lakes. All these high nearby Swindon and Bicester to grab a bargain. speed, white knuckle rides are just a 15-minute drive away A great night out from the University campus.

Cirencester is a great night out, whatever your taste. Great days out Clubs, pubs, bars, restaurants, there really is something for Hugely popular days out enjoyed by students everyone. Firm student favourites are dedicated student throughout the year include Badminton Horse club nights at Seventeen Black and ReVa as well as the Trials, Cheltenham Festival, Race Days and infamous signature cocktails at Somewhere Else. Point to Points and sporting days out at There’s also some great country pubs nearby. Popular Gloucester or Bath Rugby. Enjoy a spot of retail student haunts include The Tunnel and The Wild Duck therapy, catch a film or explore the Cotswolds which offer student happy hours and delicious pub by walking the Monarch’s Way. classics and local ales, including the University’s own A great location Muddy Wellies Beer! With Bath, Bristol, Oxford and Cheltenham all within an hour’s drive of the University, and hourly direct trains to London Paddington (just 80 minutes away) Cirencester is geographically well placed.

Why not join us and make the Capital of the Cotswolds your home? 17

Just 80 minutes Bath, Bristol, Cheltenham and Oxford to London are all within an hour of the University and promise an exciting day out. 18 Enterprise

United by passion and the drive to succeed The support we provide takes place at four levels:

We place a strong emphasis on entrepreneurialism, creating • Think it for those just starting out opportunities for our students to develop their own business • Try it proof of concept, gaining market research ideas and receive tailored support. and starting to formulate their business model • Launch it take action and get ready to start From student societies to organised workshops and awards, trading budding entrepreneurs can benefit from the bountiful • Grow it for those developing their new business knowledge and experience of their lecturers and the strong industry links the University has carefully cultivated over the years. With a strong entrepreneurial focus, we are committed “I am a testament to the fact that to enhancing the real-life business experiences available to it’s never too late to follow your our students. dream! The Enterprise Programme The Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Programme was absolutely brilliant – it gave me the confidence to believe that I’d Our award-winning Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Programme (EEP) provides an inspiring and supportive really got something.” Sharon Smith environment in which our students can share, develop Sharon enrolled on to the Enterprise Programme as and launch their ideas. Guided by lawyers, marketing a mature student after a 20-year career as a civil professionals and accountants, students from all courses engineer and trainer. Runner-up in the 2016 Grand Idea and years have the chance to realise their aspirations in a Competition with her unique electronic equine behaviour definition tool, Sharon Smith – Horse Logic professional and rewarding environment. As well as acting Sharon went on to set up Horse Logic while studying an MSc in Applied as a springboard for the business leaders of tomorrow, Equine Science at the RAU. In 2017, she launched her OPEN-ration. our celebrated programme has attracted the support of com pasture optimisation and nutrition website and has since gone on to business leaders and PR sponsors across the UK, enabling launch a new company Define; developing wearable technology for horses us to organise networking that will provide behavioural data and an early warning system for owners. events, regular challenges, Sharon has received help and support from Farm491; the RAU’s agritech enterprise workshops, incubation centre to set up and develop her business. mentoring services, Find out more work placements and www.rau.ac.uk/ inspirational talks. enterprise 19

Student Entrepreneurs in Residence Mentoring

Our Student Entrepreneurs in Residence are current Our mentoring programme has been established for many KEY FACTS students at the RAU who are all running successful years and all of our external mentors receive training and

48 businesses launched with businesses alongside their studies, or have run businesses advice from the enterprise and entrepreneurship team. support from the Enterprise in the past. They provide peer mentoring for those students Students find it extremely useful in helping them develop Programme just starting out on their own entrepreneurial journey. their business idea.

82% success rate for Workshops First Steps Fund businesses, compared with 44% nationally* Tailored to each level of the start-up journey, these Our First Steps Fund provides students, staff and recent informative workshops are designed to provide students alumni with proof of concept funding of up to £250 to help Since the launch of Enterprise support in 2007, we have: with the practical information they need to start their them test their business idea. – received 382 business ideas business. – helped 163 ideas develop Next Steps Fund Competitions through the First Steps Fund and The Next Steps Fund provides students with the opportunity Grand Idea competition We run many business competitions which encourage our to apply for up to £1,000 of funding to help them overcome 90 start-up enquiries received budding entrepreneurs. Our ‘Think it’ challenge allows a barrier faced by their business. each year students to submit a two-minute filmed business pitch. Ask the expert However, for those with more established business ideas, Winner of the Enterprise and Employability category at the we hold our annual Dragons’ Den Style Grand Idea business We invite professionals and industry experts to meet with Green Gown Awards 2016 plan competition. Students pitch to an expert judging panel our students on a one-to-one basis to discuss starting their in the hope of winning £1,000 to invest into their business, own business. Crowned Business Innovation as well as around £3,000 worth of in kind business support of the Year at the Cirencester Business incubation Business Awards 2016 prizes. Previous Grand Idea winner Ellie Sear commented: “The Grand Idea is a fantastic opportunity, and it Our Trent Lodge Enterprise Centre offers desk and meeting Runner-up in the Entrepreneurship really is a case of nothing to lose, everything to gain. space for students running their own business alongside category at The Guardian University Awards 2016 I’m excited to see where I can take my business their degree. The space provides a professional environment in the future.” from which to run a business, and to interact with, and Finalist in the Duke of York Award become a part of, our start-up community. for University Entrepreneurship Enterprise Society at the Lloyds Bank National Business Awards 2016 and 2017 Our student Enterprise Society provides the social side to the Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Programme. Between 2007 and 2017, the The society meet regularly to discuss ideas, plan events and RAU Enterprise Programme has provided £95,040.55 of funding organise trips to entrepreneurial businesses. via its competitions and related Recent speakers include; William Chase (Founder Tyrells regional competitions and Chase Distillery), Levi Roots (Founder Reggae, Reggae Sauce) and Julian Dunkerton (Founder Superdry). *Office for National Statistics 20

Our farms Incorporating a range of different The farms are a focus for research. Current projects being farming systems, our farms undertaken include an investigation into reduced cultivation and improvements in soil organic matter and fertility. Field demonstrate a mix of enterprises and plot trials are undertaken on the farms by commercial run on a commercial basis. companies on an on-going basis and the farms provide a number of demonstration and trial areas. The University farms are based at two locations in close proximity to the campus. Coates Manor Farm and Harnhill The University farms are part of the Higher Level Manor Farm total 491 hectares in size and offer very Stewardship Scheme and are committed to enhancing Find out different farming systems. We also offer an equestrian the environmental value of their holdings. Research and more centre with stabling and livery facilities at our Fossehill demonstration projects, often involving outside funding and www.rau.ac.uk/ Farm close to the main campus. other external organisations, are a continual part of the farms farms’ business and educational programmes. All of the enterprises are run on a commercial basis and our students benefit through access to their physical and financial data.

The mix of enterprises across our farms consist of cattle, sheep, outdoor organic pigs, horses and arable and students also have access to dairy farms. These various enterprises provide a field laboratory for students and staff, and are used for farm classes, demonstrations and projects. 21

Harnhill Manor Farm Fossehill Farm

Harnhill Manor Farm is an example of an integrated livestock Fossehill Farm is adjacent to Coates and provides polo and and cropping system, part of which is managed organically. hunter livery stabling and associated exercise facilities. It is associated with a 120-sow outdoor organic pig herd, Converted from a sheep unit in 2006 by the Royal managed as a joint venture with a local business partner. Agricultural University, the stabling is set out over eight In addition, a mule, Lleyn and Highlander ewe breeding flock barns and features a 1,000m all-weather exercise track and is kept under a conventional farming system together with an outdoor arena. a calf rearing enterprise. Arable cropping is rotated with Kemble Farms Ltd forage crops, grown to support the livestock and to facilitate an effective rotation to underpin the management of a mixed This large dairy complex, just half a mile from the main farming system. campus, provides outstanding opportunities for our students to learn about, and experience, all aspects of an increasingly The University has also taken over the tenancy of a large scale and dynamic industry. Kemble Farms Ltd 2.6 hectare vineyard, producing white wine to be bottled allow our students access to observe their commercial and marketed commercially. management of a high-yielding, 900-cow, all-year-round Coates Manor Farm calving dairy unit. In addition, it boasts an anaerobic digester

Coates Manor Farm is predominantly arable cropped, with making use of the cow slurry to generate electricity. some pasture land supporting the equine activity. Leaze Farm We currently grow feed and milling wheat, oilseed rape To provide a contrast, students have access to this 300-cow and spring malting barley. autumn block calving herd utilising a grass-based system.

Additionally, the University uses numerous farms, estates and businesses, both locally and further afield, for visits and practical exercises.

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Find out more www.rau.ac.uk/ Rural Innovation ric

A constantly evolving campus with cutting edge facilities which encourage research and innovation nationally and internationally. Rural Innovation Centre

The Royal Agricultural University has invested £1.2m into the future of its students and the wider community with the Rural Innovation Centre at Harnhill Manor Farm.

This rural centre of excellence enables the sharing of the very latest in scientific knowledge and technological innovation between those undertaking the applied research and those involved in agricultural production. As a ‘knowledge hub’, the centre provides a major on-farm resource for the wider rural sector and the local community, including classrooms, offices, a demonstration area, community space and meeting rooms.

This cutting-edge facility, situated in the sympathetic restoration of an existing barn framework, was made possible by the tremendous vision of RAU staff and generous support from the Frank Parkinson Agricultural Trust. 23

Rural skills training Find The Rural Innovation Centre offers dedicated rural skills • Emergency First Aid out more training to equip students with the vocational hands-on • Hedge Laying www.rau. skills highly sought after by employers; a mandatory • Pest Control ac.uk/study/ requirement in many jobs. Easy access to each of the • Pesticide Application short-courses/ University farms, and a range of modern equipment, adds • Rough Terrain Forklift rural-skills/rural- considerable value to the students’ learning experience. • Tractor Operation and Machine Handling • Welding skills-courses The centre caters for a wide range of abilities and a diverse All courses lead to certification, either from the RAU or, range of programmes is available to supplement existing where applicable, from recognised awarding bodies and aim experience. Courses include: to complement the academic studies which are being, or •TV A www.facebook.com/ have been, undertaken by students. The centre is registered • Chainsaw Operation rictraining/ as a Lantra-approved training centre. • Dry Stone Walling

Farm491

Farm491 is the innovative new agri-tech business incubator Due to be completed this summer, one floor will be used by offered by the Royal Agricultural University. Farm491 adding to its current RAU sites at Trent Lodge and

It provides state-of-the-art facilities to support agri-tech Harnhill Manor Farm. The new structure will also be home businesses and promote technology and innovation within to the Cirencester Growth Hub, an initiative which will help the sector. boost the county’s economy by assisting local businesses, of all sizes and from all sectors, to accelerate growth, create Farm491 enables agri-tech innovators to grow their new jobs and achieve their potential. business in a vibrant working environment, with access to expert advisers. To support this expansion, Farm491 has launched a new three year-long European Regional Development Find The Farm491 project was allocated £2.9million of Funded Programme called Inspiring Agritech Innovation out more funding from the Gloucestershire Growth Deal. In 2016 www.farm491.com www.farm491.com/iai to provide a comprehensive we temporarily launched our Trent Lodge enterprise range of business support activities to aspiring agri-tech centre, which provides an affordable and flexible working entrepreneurs to develop, launch and grow their ventures environment for new and existing businesses. into sustainable businesses We are currently building a new £4.2m project which will Agri-tech companies will also have access to practical support both rural and agri-tech bsinesses. Over £3m workshop facilities, where they can research, create and funding was provided by the GFirst LEP Gloucestershire’s test their products. In April 2017, the RAU launched five Local Enterprise Partnership. cutting-edge workshops at its Rural Innovation Centre at Harnhill Manor Farm. Farm491 membership is free to any Our Rural Innovation Centre has Campaign received a Campaign to Protect full fee paying RAU student wishing to start an agri-tech to Protect business. Rural England Rural England Gloucestershire Gloucestershire Award for its use of sustainable Award technologies and sympathetic visual appearance within its rural setting. 24

Sustainability Working together to make a built environment and food chain and to provide leadership difference. From the way we regionally, nationally and internationally through its education, research and knowledge exchange activities. teach, to the places we work All our courses focus on achieving real-world solutions, in, sustainability is part of our often designed in partnership with other leading make-up. institutions and businesses who share our commitment to The RAU has a time-honoured reputation for safeguarding the planet’s future. delivering teaching and learning based around Sustainability and environmental matters are a core sustainability principles, from managing soils effectively element of our research and consultancy activities. Much through to the impacts of carbon management on of our expertise and teaching relates to the management business decisions, and assessing the effect on of natural resources and property. biodiversity of farm management approaches. Our commitment to sustainability and environmental Our students are conscientious, ambitious and focused matters is enshrined in our mission: to be a centre of on becoming global citizens who can contribute to the excellence for developing the leaders of tomorrow in conservation of the world’s physical landscape. sustainable development relating to the rural economy, 25 Keeping the country green

At the RAU we don’t just teach about, and research, the three accommodation blocks are fitted with solar panels, Find principles of sustainability, we follow them too. generating clean energy from the Cotswold sunshine. out more The Royal Agricultural University has an award-winning Our farms are, in part, managed organically and we are www.rau.ac.uk/ sustainability programme, which gives all students the working to reverse the decline in farmland birds. opportunity to learn about sustainable development and be We have a long history of embedding sustainability into our sustainability part of a low-impact campus. teaching; from learning about integrating environmental In 2017, the RAU was ranked top in England for carbon and commercial management on our farms, through to reduction in relation to floor area, in the Brite Green corporate social responsibility in business, the sustainable University Carbon Programme Tables. re-use of buildings and how to run events sustainably.

In 2016, the RAU was ranked 16th of 150 universities in As well as learning about how to put sustainability the UK for environmental and ethical performance. It was into practice on your course, there are plenty of other Winner of the also announced winner of the Sustainability category at opportunities to get involved with during your time here. Sustainability The Guardian University Awards 2016 and awarded two category at You could join the environmental society, sit on the Green Gown Awards for Sustainability and Enterprise and The Guardian sustainability committee, use the campus as a Living Lab Employability. University in Research Projects and receive professional training and Awards 2016 The University has developed an ISO14001 accredited work experience through the NUS Green Impact Scheme. Environmental Management System and has incorporated Another great reason to choose the RAU. cutting-edge technology to dramatically reduce our carbon footprint.

Initiatives include the installation of a biomass heating system which is used in most teaching rooms and newer Green Gown accommodation blocks, the use of rain harvesting and LED Awards lighting, an air source heat pump which extracts heat from 1st winner 2016 outside and the reuse and recycling of building materials for carbon during development. The Rural Innovation Centre and reduction*

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Resources Along with a well-stocked library and IT facilities, students have access to a range of farming systems through the RAU farms and Rural Innovation Centre affording you a real-world, real-time experience of the land-based sector. 27

IT facilities Library

Here at the RAU, we know IT is an integral part of our students’ The RAU library is the central information resource for students lives, both for learning and research, and also for relaxing and on all courses. You’ll find a wealth of knowledge, either in print communicating with family and friends. or online, plus a dedicated team of library staff ready to help

All of our students are able to bring their own laptops, tablets and you with your research needs. smartphones and use our network for academic purposes and for Our services personal internet access. Free copies of Microsoft Office 365 are • One-stop search (Find it @ RAU) available for downloading onto these devices. • Self-issue / renew / return We have four computer rooms, one open 24 hours a day, and • Cashless payments two areas equipped with screens and Apple TVs for collaborative • Inter-library loans working, while Wi-Fi access is available across the whole campus • Online library help (including all accommodation blocks), so that our students have • Inductions, workshops, and one-to-one advice access to a high-speed internet connection from any computer or • Access to other Higher Education libraries mobile device, anywhere on campus. Our collections With over 140 Windows PCs available, all with Microsoft Office 365, Genstat, SPSS, Read and Write 9 and Mindgenius (to • 24 / 7/ 365 access to 1,000s of e-books and e-journals name but a few applications), there are plenty to go round. We • 100s of print journals and newspapers also provide a wide range of specialised software, including • Market research databases geographical information systems and agricultural management • University archive and special collections packages. Our facilities

All lecture presentations and other teaching resources are • Quiet study spaces available on Gateway, our virtual learning environment, which • Collaborative learning area students can access from anywhere in the world, at any time of • Full Wi-Fi coverage the day or night.

Our students have their own printing accounts, with black and white and colour printers available in the library and the computer rooms, to which they can also print from their own devices. Careers advice

Our courses aim to give students a real head start in a a programme of careers-related events throughout the year competitive workplace. Both foundation and honours degree and the provision of quality information on occupations Watch courses are tailored to meet the requirements of today’s and employers. The RAU also has its own online job portal, our careers fairs increasingly demanding employment market. accessible to both current students and recent graduates. www.rau.ac.uk/ Our careers team is on hand to offer information, advice and Students are shown how to prepare their CV in a professional career-films guidance. They aim to help everyone capitalise on the skills, and appealing style, and are given support and advice on how experiences and qualifications gained at the RAU. to achieve a polished performance at crucial job interviews.

The campaign to help students reach their career goal starts as early as their first year. The services offered include one- to-one advice with a professionally trained Careers Adviser, 28 Work experience At the RAU, we’re not just interested in how we grow crops on the land, we also want to help grow the people and businesses who shape the land-based sector.

Practical hands-on experience is just as important as wish. Students studying on the BSc (Hons) Real Estate desk-based research and classroom teaching, which is or BSc (Hons) Rural Land Management course are why we enable our students to adapt and evolve their supported by course tutors in finding extracurricular practical and academic aptitude through study trips work experience opportunities during the holidays, or abroad, work placements with industry partners and a can opt to complete a full year placement if they wish. rural skills training programme. In previous years, students have enjoyed successful

BSc Honours students on the majority of our courses placements at a wide range of well-respected complete a 20-week work placement in year two, with organisations, helping them to gain the skills, the option to extend this to a full year placement if they knowledge and contacts needed to begin a career.

Jenny Rowe Charlotte Simmons Javier Pericas Farming Team Manager Regional Manager Agronomy Team Leader Albert Goodman Gleadell BASF “We’ve employed several RAU graduates and “Gleadell specialise in grain trading and offer “BASF offer two work placements to RAU find that they are confident and competent a number of opportunities within this field. students each year in our crop protection individuals with the drive and motivation We have successfully appointed placement division, because they have the specialist to succeed. Graduates are equipped with students and a number of RAU graduates agricultural knowledge and farming the business and finance knowledge that who have thrived in our business, developing background that we require from our we require and are eager to advance their both personally and professionally. We find agronomists. We offer a robust training knowledge and excel within the agricultural that students from the RAU have a good programme to bring students up to speed accountancy role.” understanding of agriculture and the running with issues in the crop sector, and equip of a successful business.” them with the tools to identify and solve RAU careers fair these issues for themselves. After their placement and once they have graduated, they have a great opportunity to join our company.” 29

Victoria Funke Max O’Brien D’Arcie Rice BSc (Hons) Agriculture BSc (Hons) International BSc (Hons) International “I chose to complete my placement at Business Management Business Management (Food Wageningen University and Research Centre “For my work placement, I joined the Sales and Agribusiness) because I’ve always wanted to work within and Marketing Department at UCC Coffee UK “I decided to complete my placement at G’s academia and have a keen interest in plant & Ireland. I spent time with the sales team, Fresh because I have a genuine interest in diseases. As Biointeractions and Plant Health understanding the coffee business from the the fresh produce industry. In my role as Intern, the projects I worked on focussed origins to point of sale and received plenty Logistics Co-ordinator, my responsibilities on bacterial diseases; mainly potatoes, of help and guidance from the Head of included; following up undespatched orders, tomatoes and strawberries. I assisted Marketing. My experience at UCC Coffee has arranging transport, ensuring orders were the researchers, collected and processed been invaluable. I’ve gained sales knowledge despatched and liaising with hauliers and samples, conducted field experiments and experience, which has enabled me to production teams. I was fortunate enough and did laboratory work. I also had the see the theory I’ve learnt in my degree put to visit multiple farms, factories and opportunity to collect data for my Research into practice. Furthermore, I have improved conferences, all of which wouldn’t have Project, ahead of my third year at the RAU. my communication skills and increased my been possible without G’s Fresh. I feel I have Working at Wageningen UR has been a great business contacts considerably.” learnt how to deal with major accounts, experience. I’ve made some great contacts, improved my communications and interview and think it will make me a more rounded skills, and gained so much experience with candidate for future jobs.” fresh produce and logistics. I would really like to go on and work for G’s Fresh when I graduate.” 30

Living Woodlands Lodge

We pride ourselves Located on one large site, in 25 acres of picturesque contracts (where you vacate the room for four weeks at on being an inclusive countryside, with a population of 1,200 students, we are Christmas and four weeks at Easter). more like a community than a campus. The RAU is large community where Rooms are allocated on a first come, first served basis enough that many facilities are on-site, yet small enough there is a place and the application will not be processed until a place has to create a friendly atmosphere that inspires students to been offered, accepted and the pre-payment is received. for everyone and consider us a home from home. Accessible rooms are available in Coad Court, Woodlands everyone has the Located in the heart of Cirencester, the campus is an Lodge, Vic Hughes and West Lodge. chance to find integral part of the town, which offers a thriving cultural hub Our bedrooms have stunning views over the fields to their place. full of social opportunities. the village of Coates, the green campus and historic There is a range of on and off campus accommodation Quadrangle, the sports pitches at the front of the building, available to suit all tastes and budgets. the iconic RAU tower or the surrounding fields at the rear of the building. Accommodation Contact the accommodation office We know that your room will not just be a place to study [email protected] and sleep; it will be your space to call home. 01285 889823 There are eight halls of residence across the campus, all Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm with their own individual qualities and characteristics.

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Room definitions Living on-campus

Standard single rooms have shared toilet and shower The University surgery, launderette, café bar and shop facilities. are all located on-campus, just a short stroll from the

Single en-suite rooms have their own bathroom. accommodation. The shop sells a variety of snacks, food items, confectionery, newspapers, drinks, stationery, Twin en-suite rooms where you share with another student. toiletries and RAU clothing.

Included with your room Fancy sharing? • 3 meals a day for students in full board accommodation, If you know another student who is already here or will be or 2 meals a day for students in half board joining with you, there is the option of having a twin en-suite accommodation. We are happy to cater for specific room which will cut down your costs. medical or religious requirements. A self-catered option is available in some residences Off-campus accommodation • Bed linen is provided but you will need to bring your Second and third year students live off-campus in rented own towels houses or flats in Cirencester or the surrounding villages. • Regular servicing of rooms • Wi-Fi Visit the RAU student lettings website • Electricity and heating www.urbanfox.info

• TV aerial point, you must obtain your own TV License George Wing • Bed, work space, wardrobe, bedside table, bedside light and kettle • Free shuttle bus which runs regularly to and from the “George Wing has masses of town centre and Harnhill Manor Farm charm, a great location right in the • Free on-campus car parking middle of University with super • Free membership to the University gym views over the rugby fields. Having everyone on the same floor is perfect for making friends right from the start.” Guilia, George Wing George Wing interior Download “Modern self-catered our accommodation block right in the heart of everything guide on campus with large www.rau.ac.uk/ common rooms that accommodation are great for hanging out with friends.” Rhys, West Lodge

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Main Building interior “Sociable halls. Great views of campus and the surrounding areas with large and spacious rooms.” Jess, Bledisloe Court

Coad Court interior Two staircases within the accommodation block of main build, one to the Tithe Barn, a second to the dining hall and to lectures. A characterful place to live! Dominic, Main building

“Living in Main Building you can

meet a lot of people, not just in Coad Court and around your room, but also “Living in Coad Court I had a at the Tithe Barn and Student “The best thing about living great view across the Cotswolds Lounge in Coad is that my friends .” heading out towards Coates Charlie, Main building were all over the campus Farm and was on campus only no matter where you went, a short distance from friends, and the Tithe Barn is right lecture halls and the Tithe Barn by your door.” bar.” Jamie, Coad Court George, Coad Court 33 Woodlands Lodge

“The rooms are spacious, well equipped and all have en-suites. They are also the only catered halls with a common room, which makes it a great place to catch up with friends.” Grace, Woodlands Lodge

Vic Hughes Hall

“Vic Hughes was really very sociable, where everyone met up in the common room after a day of lectures for a fun but quiet night in.” Freddie, Vic Hughes

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Find out more www.rau.ac.uk/ Support support Students are at the heart of everything we do and ensuring that they have a positive Julie Tottle experience is our number one priority. Our students are part of our friendly and supportive community. The 2017 National Student Survey credited us with an 87% satisfaction rating. One of the advantages of being a small university is that there is ample resource to go around, with committed staff who make themselves available on a one-to-one basis. From an open-door policy to a tailor-made mentoring service, our priority is our students’ success. It’s a caring ethos that our student community share, in the form of their own peer support group.

Our student advice and support network will ensure your time here is both rewarding and fulfilling. Celia Povey Meet the team Julie Tottle Celia Povey M.A., MBACP (Accred) Anna Thomson Student Support Services Student Counsellor, University Nurse Manager Health and Wellbeing Officer “Hello, I’m the University Nurse. I’m here in the “Hello, I’m the Student Support Services Manager. “Hello, I’m the Student Counsellor, Health and clinic in the main quad every Monday, Wednesday I provide an important link between the University Wellbeing Officer. I provide a wellbeing drop-in and Friday during term time, from 9am – 2pm. The support structures. I’m your first point of contact for service to help you find strategies to cope with doctor is available on the same days from 12pm until the majority of questions you may have. For example, common issues whilst at university. Maybe you’re 1.15pm to assist with any medical concerns and for you might come to see me about what disability struggling to sleep, have fallen out with a flat mate general health advice.” services you may be entitled to, learning support, or are negotiating financial and academic stress. course queries etc. I’ll be able to point you in the Wellbeing drop-ins provide you with the ideas and Anna right direction.” resources you need to get the most out of university life, without compromising your health and wellbeing.

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Advice for dyslexic or To ensure you get the recognition and support you require from the start of your first semester, it is vital disabled applicants that you send through your assessment evidence and apply to the DSA at your earliest convenience. Our goal is to support all our students and ensure they have a rewarding experience from start to finish. Medical or physical disability

The University actively welcomes applications from students For any other disability, please send a copy of a consultant’s with dyslexia or other impairments recognised under the diagnosis or similar direct to Dr John Conway when you Equality Act, and promises to consider your application accept the offer of a place. solely on academic grounds. We have designed our courses to be accessible to as wide a range of potential students Disabled Students’ Allowance as possible. We ask that you declare your dyslexia or other UK students are advised to apply for a Disabled Students’ disability to the Disability Officer as early as possible, so Allowance as soon as the Student Loan portal opens as it is that we can ensure we have provision for your needs in an extended and lengthy process. This is free, non-means place when you arrive. tested support for dyslexia or disability.

As some of our degrees are vocational, some modules do Visit www.gov.uk/disabled-students-allowances-dsas require physical activity or visual skills to complete them successfully.

Dyslexia We have an excellent track record of supporting the needs Contact our of students with dyslexia or other forms of specific learning Disability Officer Find difficulties, and aim to be ‘dyslexia friendly’ in all our out more teaching and learning environments. Please send a copy Dr John Conway www.rau.ac.uk/ of your diagnostic assessment (must be from after your [email protected] support 16th birthday and by an educational psychologist or similar) 01285 652531 direct to our Disability Officer, Dr John Conway, as soon as you accept the offer of a place. You’ll then have access to copies of teaching materials in advance, 25% extra time in examinations and access to our dyslexia tutor to help you develop your learning skills. Students are at the heart of everything we do and ensuring that they have a positive experience is our number one priority. Our students are among the happiest in the country. The 2015 National Student Survey (NSS) ranked us within the top 25% of 160 UK universities, and credited us with an 89% satisfaction rating. One of the advantages of being a small university is that there is ample resource to go around, with committed staff who make themselves available on a one-to-one basis. From an open-door policy to a tailor- made mentoring service, our priority is our students’ success. It’s a caring ethos that our student community share, in the form of their own peer to peer support group. We are not just a campus, we are a community. Our student advice and support network will ensure your time here is both rewarding and fulfilling. Meet the team…………………….

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International Ours is a diverse community community and benefit from a strong support network of of people where staff and overseas students. A two-week orientation programme is available for all international students, helping you students become part to prepare for your time with us, introducing you to of a network for life. the practicalities of living in the UK through to visits to Cirencester’s landmarks and local places of interest. When the RAU opened as a College in 1845, its first cohort Find out of students totalled 25. We now have a diverse community Our goal is to support all our students and ensure they have when we are visiting of 1,200 students from over 45 countries. a rewarding experience from start to finish. your country The RAU has a proud history of attracting people from all Students’ Union www.rau.ac.uk/ walks of life, all ages and all academic and professional All international students will have full access to the international backgrounds. Our goal is to nurture people’s enthusiasm Students’ Union and all of the social and sporting activities for the environment, to help them make a difference by organised by RAU students, for RAU students. developing their skills and their perspective. For further information please refer to page 8. The Royal Agricultural University has links around the world. Students from many different countries study at Cirencester, Accommodation travelling from as far afield as China, India, Nigeria, The Royal Agricultural University is the safest university in Malawi, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Follow England and Wales, according to The Complete University the Royal Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Canada amongst Guide 2018. All international students have the opportunity Agricultural others. Overseas universities, government bodies, and (subject to availability) to live on-campus. Please make sure organisations have forged strong connections with the RAU University that you apply for your accommodation as soon as you since its early days. International receive your offer letter. Community on We understand that students who have not previously lived Full details of accommodation Facebook or studied in the UK may require some additional support. can be found on page 32. We will provide you with advice and guidance from initial enquiry, right through to application and enrolment. Once you arrive at the RAU, you can enjoy a thriving student 37

International Orientation Visas and immigration Mid September to October The University offers assistance to all international students Contact This two-week course is designed for non-UK students who with their visa applications. This support is provided free of international will be commencing degree studies in October of every charge and the RAU has a high success rate in obtaining @rau.ac.uk year here at the RAU. It provides an opportunity to explore student visas. Although it is your responsibility to check the the local area and places of interest, such as Oxford, Bath, requirements for entering the UK as a Tier 4 student and to or London, helps with the practicalities of establishing secure the documentation required for your visa application, a presence in the UK and incorporates daily English for the RAU will provide personalised visa and immigration Academic Purposes sessions. support and practical advice throughout the application The cost of the International Orientation programme is process. approximately £350 and is inclusive of accommodation, Student support meals, transport fees, entrance fees and airport pick-up and arrival service. All undergraduate students from the UK and overseas benefit from a well-established support network. Our highly 1st English language requirements trained team of specialist welfare, liaison, international safest All international students are required to hold a recognised support and disability officers work alongside personal English language qualification of at least Grade C (or Grade tutors, chaplains and medical staff at the University surgery 4 for new GCSEs) or an equivalent standard before they to make sure students broaden their knowledge in a apply for a student visa. For students whose first language supported environment. Safest university in is not English, the University will accept the International Full details on student support and information for England and Wales English Language Test (IELTS) with a minimum score of 6.0 disabled and dyslexic applicants can be found on average with no element below 5.5 (taken within the past page 35. two years), or other equivalent recognised English language For admissions details and how to apply turn to qualifications which meet B2 level. page 102. Fees and funding

The RAU fees as well as a range of funding can be found on page 101.

“I chose to come to the Royal Agricultural University As part of the course, we have the opportunity to because it offered a wide range of agricultural take part in rural skills training courses, such as courses and because of its rating as one of the best tractor and trailer driving, forklift operation, dry stone agricultural universities. I’m thoroughly enjoying my walling, blacksmithing and many more. Lecturers time at the RAU as an international student and love and students are very friendly and approachable the fact that there are a lot of practical activities and I love the diversity at the RAU. I’m hoping to Name: Dorcas Kadiata involved in my course. We have daily lectures, but progress on to a Masters degree at this university in Course: FdSc Agriculture and also get to visit farms around the area to see how the future.” Farm Management they operate. 38

Research The RAU has been at the forefront of agricultural education for more than 170 years, delivering educational excellence and contributing to the global agricultural sector. From sustainable agriculture, food security and equestrianism, to Increasing Wheat Production Malawi business, real estate, rural land management and the rural economy, Donwell Kamalongo is from the Department of Agricultural Research our researchers are regularly called upon by the national media for and Technical Services (DARS) in Malawi – a branch of the Ministry their expert opinion on a range of topical issues and policies. of Agriculture. Our research portfolio focuses on applied, near-market research He completed his MSc in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in agriculture and land-based studies. As a result, key users at the Royal Agricultural University in 2010. Since January 2015, he and a broad range of beneficiaries approach our researchers for has been pursuing a PhD in wheat (Triticum aestivum) and faba bean information and advice on science and policy through consultancy or (Vicia faba) crop mixtures under the supervision of Dr Nicola Cannon. contract research proposals. Research activities are field and laboratory based. Ours is a dynamic learning environment in which our students and Donwell will apply the expertise gained from the study in Malawi researchers are unified in their drive to build their knowledge and to the cereals research group. The science underpinning cereal / understanding for the sake of the world’s future. Our projects provide legume crop mixtures can be applied to any crop irrespective of the the right expertise and skills, and interesting collaborations with growing climatic conditions (tropical or temperate). other national and international research groups. Land value research

The RAU was appointed by a consortium of London borough councils, led by Islington Council, to examine the impact of planning changes in land values in London. As part of a team with Kingston University, the University of Reading and Ramidus Consulting, the research has found that the interpretation of recent changes to the planning system has had a significant, negative impact upon affordable housing provision in London through unintentionally inflating land values. 39

Field work underway in an initiative between the RAU Equine Behavioural Neuroscience and Thames Water We specialise in learning more about how the Thomas Edwards has secured the brain controls behaviour, using cognitive tests opportunity to conduct a Masters by to reveal the inner workings of the horse brain. Research study at our Harnhill Manor Shown in the figure on the right is a horse Farm. Sponsored by Thames Water, completing the Three-Choice Serial Reaction the aim is to determine whether Time Task which is designed to tell us more concentrations of metaldehyde can be about abnormal behaviours such as crib-biting reduced via swale mechanisms. and weaving. In the long-term, we hope that our Metaldehyde is a complex chemical used as a pesticide in agriculture. fully automated testing systems can be used Levels of metaldehyde have been found in watercourses nationwide to predict performance traits including racing due to diffuse pollution, infiltration into subsoil and excessive runoff. ability and maybe even screen for Cushing’s Pollutant reduction is normally achieved through filtration systems disease and other equine brain disorders. within water treatment works, but the chemical complexity of Finally, using the horse as a model species we metaldehyde makes it very difficult to filter it out to within the EU limit. are contributing to research into human mental health, with recent publications in the Journal of Swales are designed to transport water through shallow ditches to Neuroscience Methods and presentations at the provide water treatment via interaction with subsoil and vegetation. Festival of Neuroscience in Birmingham. Previous studies have shown that swales are efficient in the reduction of pollutants like heavy metals and nutrients. Co-producing future research priorities in animal health and welfare Microarray techniques for elucidating respiratory allergens in horses Alice Hamilton-Webb and Dr Rhiannon Naylor, lecturers in Rural Land Management at the RAU, have been working with the University of Sam White’s PhD, sponsored Sheffield on a high-impact project. by Haygain Ltd and the Marjory Sainsbury Trust, is identifying The work (co-created with Defra) engaged with key academics which airborne dust particles and industry stakeholders in animal health and welfare to develop from forage cause the allergic a co-produced research strategy for the next three to five years; respiratory disorder in horses establishing strategic social science priorities that will contribute - Recurrent Airway Obstruction to achieving enhanced agricultural outcomes. This includes the (RAO). International collaborators areas of disease control, animal welfare, farmer behaviour and risk in France, Switzerland, USA and communication. Canada have all provided samples for analyses and Sam is discovering The research reflects the importance of enhancing links between that some horses have raised Immunoglobulin E responses to academia, government and key stakeholders to ensure current microorganisms not previously implicated in RAO. He is also research informs policy and practice and future research reflects developing a new diagnostic technique for RAO which produced some shared priorities and offers a strong pathway to impact. excitement at the 2017 World Equine Airway Symposium in Denmark where Sam presented his latest findings. 40

Q. How could the RAU benefit your career prospects? A. Here’s a snapshot from a group of RAU graduates.

I came to the Royal Agricultural I wanted to run my own business. in allowing my business to grow and University because it is known Along with fellow student James establish in the last few years. worldwide to deliver one of the best Flower, we founded Field & Flower, the agricultural degrees. The knowledge premium monthly meat box business. of the lecturers meant that no stone We currently deliver over 1,000 “There are many was left unturned throughout the three subscription boxes a month nationwide skills that I use on a year degree. The practical element and were thrilled to receive an day-to-day basis that was very valuable in the second year, Observer Food Monthly Independent I was taught at the when I travelled to New Zealand for my Retailer runner-up award and be voted RAU, which have been placement to work on two farms. Best Meat Box by The Independent. invaluable in allowing my business to grow The business side of the course There are many skills that I use on a Name: James Mansfield and establish in the was one that particularly appealed day-to-day basis that I was taught at Course: BSc (Hons) Agriculture last few years.” to me, and I quickly identified that the RAU, which have been invaluable Career: Founder of Field & Flower

The RAU offers high quality, flexible equine operations, the RAU provides degree programmes set in inspiring an industry-specific education. “The RAU and its surroundings. The highly credible alumni network, as Whilst on a study tour to Ireland, reputation of the RAU and its alumni well as support and I attended a lecture by Plusvital network, as well as support and advice advice from the staff, Equinome and was able to see how I mean that studying from the staff, mean that studying at could apply the knowledge and skills at Cirencester is an Cirencester is an experience which I was learning to a role within the experience which helps helps shape your future. company. On graduation, I moved to shape your future.” The equine management degree Dublin to begin a job with Plusvital combines business, finance and Equinome and am now their PhD Name: Amy Holtby marketing modules, with more specific Researcher. I have no doubt that the Course: BSc (Hons) Equine equine anatomy and physiology topics. expertise gained during my time at Management With additional input from leading Cirencester kick-started my career in Career: PhD Researcher at industry figures, and trips to successful the home of the Thoroughbred. Plusvital Equinome 41

I decided to study at the RAU joining Bonhams as a trainee in their because I felt that the course and the motor car department. I am now “The course and the environment would give me the right responsible for organising collectors’ mix of people from all mix of skills and experience to succeed motor car auctions and events, over the world was after graduation. including those held at Goodwood invaluable for sharing The international business course and Beaulieu, whilst assisting with opinions, knowledge is a great springboard for anyone the marketing and communications and networking, which I’m sure will stand wanting to launch their career in aspects of the business. me in good stead for business. I gained a strong grounding The course and the mix of people many years to come.” in general business practices, whilst from all over the world was invaluable also specialising in areas of particular for sharing opinions, knowledge Name: Mark Gold interest and applying them practically and networking, which I’m sure will Course: BSc (Hons) International to agriculture. stand me in good stead for many Business Management After graduating, I went on to work as years to come. Career: Business Manager at a contractor for Aston Martin before Bonhams

Choosing to study at the RAU was a practice. Since graduating in 2014, very easy decision for me. I wanted I took up a position at JLL and have “My time at Cirencester to go to a university where the now completed my APC to qualify as was both challenging course would provide me with a solid a chartered surveyor. and enjoyable. Through foundation for my future career. My time at Cirencester was both case studies and report The real estate course provided challenging and enjoyable. Through writing the coursework me with the opportunity to study case studies and report writing the prepared us for the property from both commercial coursework prepared us for the real-life skills expected and residential aspects. real-life skills expected of us after of us after graduation.” Most importantly, the course and the graduation. Beyond the course, huge support provided by the lecturers the RAU provides plenty of social Name: Deborah Bryant-Pearson gave me the confidence to choose opportunities and I have left with Course: BSc (Hons) Real Estate a career in commercial professional friends for life. Career: Graduate Surveyor at JLL 42

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Agriculture 43 Q. How do I gain the skills and experience to become an agricultural specialist?

Agriculture degrees are as much about the hands-on practical The underpinning of the RAU’s success is based on an extensive experience as they are in-depth technical knowledge and network of relationships with farm and agribusinesses, from understanding, which is why we give you the chance to work with which technical knowledge and understanding is practically one of our many industry partners through your work placement. applied to coursework, exams and Research Projects.

Coupled with rural skills training attained through the Rural Academic and research staff are experts within their fields, with Skills Centre you will gain practical skills and credibility that will the knowledge and experience to debate current issues, form appeal to your future employers. Throughout the degree you partnerships with agricultural enterprises, progress our Farm491 will learn about different farm and land-based enterprises, a agri-tech initiative (page 23) and conduct research trials on the range of production systems, how to address the challenges of RAU farms. the realities of sustainable commercial farming, environmental The University continually monitors the factors which stimulate protection and achieve the highest standards of livestock welfare. the need for a sustainable, socio-economic agricultural Our new Farm491 agri-tech hub will give you unparalleled management policy in the UK, EU and globally. Our graduates are access to on-farm / applied product development initiatives equipped to take on the challenges ahead and to create a more and RAU farms will provide access to research trials during sustainable future. your agricultural degree. This will help you to understand what it takes to bridge the gap between the laboratory, the field, the commercial market and the farm.

The Royal Agricultural University’s agricultural curriculum provides a clear response to the current and future issues which A. Royal affect the consumer, the role of technology and the impact of the economic and political landscape. This enhances the Agricultural competitiveness of our students. We offer a range of agricultural University courses which provide a bespoke education to prepare our Cirencester students for the dynamic and highly competitive global market. Know how 44 BSc (Hons) Agriculture Our degree is tailored to meet the changing needs of the Course structure UCAS code: D700 industry and is continually updated in consultation with The three-year programme will be delivered through a our industry advisors. As the agricultural and supply chain Full-time or part-time series of lectures, seminars and practical classes at the sectors become increasingly regulated and technical, Course manager RAU farms, local farms, agribusiness enterprises and RAU our graduates need to be familiar with opportunities for Dr Rachael Foy laboratories. Students also have access to the University’s technological transformation and demands of global email Farm491 facility, an innovative agri-tech business incubator [email protected] production, economic consequences and new policy providing facilities and support to agri-tech businesses and developments. These are critical elements of our agriculture Entry requirements promoting technology and innovation within the sector. programme which has a solid grounding in fundamental UCAS points 104 science whilst promoting progressive and commercial Our exceptional industry contacts and external visits to A Level BCC (minimum three A2 production agriculture. livestock and crop enterprises and agribusinesses provide Level passes) preferably one in a invaluable insights and case study examples. science or technology subject. Career prospects Farm491 will give you unparalleled access to on-farm / BTEC DMM applied product development initiatives and RAU farms will GCSE English and Mathematics Our graduates have gone on to pursue careers within provide on-farm research trials during your agricultural Grade C are required (Grade 4 for agricultural companies worldwide: degree, helping you to understand what it takes to bridge new GCSEs) • Agrii • Criddle the gap between the laboratory, the field, the commercial A period of practical experience is •AG NIAB T • Gleadell market and the farm. highly recommended. • AGCO • Cefetra • Yara • Dalmark Group Please see page 104 for full Modules are assessed through a blend of examinations and • Alltech • Farming and Wildlife coursework, including real-life case studies, presentations details. • Procam Agriculture Advisory Group and reports. • G’s Fresh • RSPCA • Mole Valley Farmers • Intelligent Precision The Research Project is an integral part of the course. Farming Meet the • Genus Breeding Completed in your third year, it provides the opportunity to course research a subject of specific interest or of direct relevance manager Working within the following roles: • Agronomist • Animal Scientist to your future employment. Find out more • Nutritionist • Agricultural about Dr Rachael Foy’s Work placement • Geneticist / Journalist experience and expertise. Breeding Specialist • Research Consultant In the second year, you’ll apply and develop your expertise / Advisor www.rau.ac.uk/RachaelFoy • Farm Manager during a 20-week work placement. If you wish to undertake • Health and Welfare • Academic Lecturer an extended period of work placement you may interrupt Manager your studies to undertake a 12 or 18 month work Find placement. You may choose to link this to your final year out more elective modules or Research Project. Not only could you www.rau. find yourself working for prestigious companies in the UK ac.uk/ug-a or across the world, you will develop the confidence and industry contacts to propel yourself forward upon leaving the RAU. This industry experience helps our graduates to develop key employability skills and gain invaluable industry contacts. 45 Modules Year one Year two Year three

– Introduction to Business – Economic Applications for Farm – New Developments in Agricultural – Emerging Agricultural Issues Management Enterprises Science – Management Information Systems – Soil and Environmental Science – Agricultural Policy and Legislation – Sustainable Agricultural for Farming Businesses – Crop Production Science – Agricultural Research Methods Intensification – Research Project – Crop Production 1 – Grass and Forage Crops Plus TWO elective modules, selected from: – Livestock Science – Livestock Production 2 – Sustainable Management of Soil – Climate Change and Development – Livestock Production 1 – Crop Production 2 and Water – Farmland Ecology – Agricultural Mechanisation and – Farm Mechanisation Management – Advanced Crop Production – Entrepreneurship Buildings – Environmental and Woodland – Advanced Livestock Production – Wine Industry – Introduction to Food Production Management – Advanced Crop and Plant Science – Sustainable Business and Agri-food – Work Placement – Farm Machinery Management Supply Chains – Agricultural and Equine Journalism – Integrated Organic Systems – Soil Analysis and Interpretation

Course modules are subject to change. The most up-to-date course details can be found at www.rau.ac.uk

“The lecturers know you by name and soon work out just what you are capable of and are always on hand to help you achieve your aims. I would not be where I am today without them.”

Name: Charlotte French Course: BSc (Hons) Agriculture Career: Integrated Beef Supply Chain Manager

After falling into agriculture on my gap year capable of and are always on hand to help units in our in Australia, the Royal Agricultural University you achieve your aims. I would not be where supply chain as allowed me to gain a wealth of knowledge I am today without them. well as managing and experience I would not have gained Between finishing exams and graduating, logistics and data and through just practical experience alone. I was lucky enough to be offered a job in a helping out where needed. The beauty of the RAU and its small campus relatively new integrated beef company, a It has been, and continues to be, a is that everyone knows everyone and not job I gained with the help of the contacts I massive learning curve, which I’m positive just the students. The lecturers know you by had made through the RAU. I’m now being I would not have managed without the name and soon work out just what you are trained to help liaise between the various knowledge and skills I learnt at the RAU. 46

BSc (Hons) Applied Farm Management

Effective and professional farm management has never Within the following areas: UCAS code: 34F6 been more crucial as farmers and landowners seek to • Farm Manager • Agricultural Full-time or part-time develop and diversify within a globalised food supply • Agronomist Journalist chain. It is vital that future farm business leaders have the • Nutritionist • Research Consultant Course manager / Advisor knowledge and skills to be competitive and thrive. • Geneticist / Dr Rachael Foy Breeding Specialist • Academic Lecturer email This degree course develops the farmers, farm managers [email protected] Course structure and consultants of the future, with the skill set and Entry requirements knowledge required to develop a career within the The course will be delivered through a series of lectures, UCAS points 104 agricultural and land-based industries. The range of seminars, practical classes at the RAU farms and A Level BCC (minimum three A2 production systems adopted and commercially practised on laboratories. Our exceptional industry contacts, external Level passes) preferably one in a our farms, and local farm businesses, provide an invaluable visits to livestock, crop enterprises and agribusinesses science or technology subject. insight into the current realities of commercial farming, provide valuable additional case studies. BTEC DMM while our Rural Innovation Centre allows for a variety of Farm491 will give you unparalleled access to on-farm GCSE English and Mathematics research and land-based training. / applied product development initiatives and RAU farms Grade C are required (Grade 4 for Students also have access to the University’s Farm491 will provide on-farm research trials during your agricultural new GCSEs) facility, an innovative agri-tech business incubator providing degree, helping you to understand what it takes to bridge A period of practical experience is facilities and support to agri-tech businesses and promoting the gap between the laboratory, the field, the commercial highly recommended. technology and innovation within the sector. market and the farm. Please see page 104 for full Career prospects Modules are assessed through a range of coursework, details. including real-life case studies, presentations and reports.

Our graduates have an in-depth understanding of farm The Research Project is an integral part of the course. and business management, as well as the wider rural Completed in your third year, it provides the opportunity to Meet the environment, and have gone on to work within a range research in-depth a subject of specific interest or of direct course high-profile organisations worldwide: manager relevance to your future employment. • Procam Agriculture • Velcourt Find out more • Keenan Systems • Dalcour Maclaren about Dr Rachael Foy’s • GEFCO • Albert Goodman experience and expertise. • Ecow • Sentry Farming www.rau.ac.uk/RachaelFoy • FAI Farms • Farmcare Trading • Farming Connect • ADAS Find out more www.rau. ac.uk/ ug-afm 47

Work placement

In the second year, you’ll apply and develop your expertise during a 20-week the UK or across the world, you’ll develop the confidence and industry contacts work placement. If you wish to undertake an extended period of work placement to propel yourself forward upon leaving the RAU. This industry experience helps you may interrupt your studies to undertake a 12 or 18 month work placement. our graduates to develop key employability skills and gain invaluable industry You may choose to link this to your final year elective modules or Research contacts. Project. Not only could you find yourself working for prestigious companies in Modules Year one Year two Year three

– Introduction to Business – Farm Business Management – Integrated Farm Project – Soil and Environmental Science – Applied Farm-Level Human – Applied Agricultural Finance – Crop Production Science Resource Management – Research Project – Crop Production 1 – Farm Management Research – Emerging Agricultural Issues – Livestock Science Methods – Management Information Systems for Farming Businesses – Livestock Production 1 – Agricultural Policy and Legislation Plus TWO elective modules, selected from: – Agricultural Mechanisation and – Agricultural Marketing – Entrepreneurship – Forestry and Woodland Buildings – Farm Mechanisation Management – Business Strategy Management – Introduction to Food Production – Environmental and Woodland – Corporate Finance – Advanced Livestock Production Management – Marketing Communication – Rural Business Diversification – Work Placement – Consumer Behaviour – Advanced Crop Production Plus ONE elective module, – Countryside Management – Sustainable Business and Agri-food selected from: – Agricultural and Equine Journalism Supply Chains Livestock Production 2 – Game and Deer Management Crop Production 2 Course modules are subject to change. The most up-to-date course details can be found at www.rau.ac.uk

“My experience of the Applied The University’s connection with alumni and industry Farm Management degree professionals is also an asset with regards to life after has been excellent, with graduation. innovative and modern concepts discussed in lectures.” My experience of the Applied Farm Management degree has been excellent, with innovative and modern concepts discussed in lectures. The lecturers are approachable and Name: Tom Adcock eager to debate and share industry knowledge. During my Course: BSc (Hons) Applied Farm Management second year I undertook a work placement on a mixed farm in Dorset, looking after pigs and beef and dairy cows, Prior to joining the RAU I had limited experience of the agricultural which was a fantastic opportunity. industry, having previously studied bio chemical engineering. I chose the RAU because it offers a high quality, customisable My aim is to become the manager of a mixed farm which is degree course which allowed me to focus on the areas of innovative and sustainable. I believe that my three years at the agriculture and business management that I’m interested in. RAU have helped me well on the way to achieving this goal. 48 FdSc Agriculture and Farm Management

With our rural location, over a century of experience and a Course structure UCAS code: D401 wealth of industry contacts, the RAU is the place to be if you Real-world experience is paramount to a firm understanding want to learn from the best and use your skills within farm Full-time or part-time of the agricultural industry, which is why the first year will management. Course manager see your energies focused towards practical studies. You’ll Tom Overbury Today’s employers, many of whom form part of our global advance even further with a period of compulsory work email network of contacts, will be looking for candidates who experience during the summer vacation between the first [email protected] know how to operate in a climate of uncertainty and and second year, which will be recorded in your portfolio. Entry requirements fluctuating commodity prices – study with us and that The core subjects are studied in the first year, with the UCAS points 56 could be you. Add to that the practical training from a work teaching heavily biased towards practical, work-related A Level CD (minimum one A2 Level experience placement, you’ll graduate with a portfolio sure situations. The first two terms of the second year are used pass) to make you stand out from the crowd wherever you choose for further teaching and experiential learning. The Integrated BTEC MPP to go next. Project is then undertaken during the final term, ensuring GCSE English and Mathematics Whether you wish to manage an agricultural enterprise or that you’re fully conversant with both financial and physical Grade C are required (Grade 4 for farming business, migrate into finance or journalism, or management techniques in the field. new GCSEs) continue studying agriculture and land management, this The course will be assessed through a wide range of A period of practical experience is agriculture and farm management course will give you the techniques, including research projects, examinations, highly recommended. practical, financial and leadership skills you need. We’ll case studies, business plans, portfolio, presentations and even guide your progression on to other conversion courses Please see page 104 for full practical skills. if you so wish. That might be one of our own BSc Honours details. top-up courses or a relevant opportunity at another Higher You’ll have the opportunity to gain relevant practical Education institition in the UK. experience and qualifications through rural skills training at the Rural Innovation Centre at Harnhill Manor Farm. Meet the Career prospects You can enrol for courses leading to the award of course Certificates of Competence. manager Our graduates have gone on to pursue a range of careers: • Farm Manager • Journalist Work placement Find out more • Agricultural Trader • Research Consultant You’ll complete a 10-week period of compulsory work about Tom Overbury’s / Supplier / Advisor experience and expertise. • Agricultural Insurer experience, usually during the summer holiday between www.rau.ac.uk/TomOverbury your first and second year, to gain further training and experience in farm management. Find You’ll be expected to produce a portfolio of evidence of your out more learning experience. www.rau. ac.uk/ ug-afmt 49

“The reputation of Cirencester stretches far and wide, which I Modules quickly found out after graduating.”

Year one Name: Rupert Turnbull – Accounts and Economics Course: FdSc Agriculture and Farm Management and – Animal and Crop Science BSc (Hons) in Agricultural Management (top up) – Crop Production Career: Arable and livestock systems in New Zealand – Estate Management – Farm Business Management I’m not from a farming background, After graduating in 2017, I went on – General Agriculture but decided to study at the Royal to work for Savills, Knight Frank, – Livestock Husbandry Agricultural University as I have a Ramsbury Estate, RM & N Lawton, – Machinery and Buildings passion for country pursuits. The Bettws Hall as well as an estate in the – Personal Development / Employability reputation of Cirencester stretches far Scottish West Highlands which has Year two and wide, which I quickly found out been invaluable and added to my ever- after graduating. growing list of qualifications. – Work-based Learning – Agricultural Policy and Legislation The lecturers are second to none I’m currently about to embark on – Animal Production and are active experts in their field; a working holiday to New Zealand – Crop Management providing you with information and for nine months where I am going – Environmental and Woodland Management insights into current and emerging to explore their arable and livestock – Commodities Marketing agricultural issues inside and outside systems as this has always been – Machinery Management the lecture rooms. The courses one of my dreams. Once back from – Data Handling and Technical Writing cover the production side of arable my travels, I’m going to undertake a – Farm Business Planning and livestock farming focusing most Masters in Rural Estate Management importantly on the business of running before looking for a full-time job in Course modules are subject to change. profitable and successful enterprises rural surveying. The most up-to-date course details can be found at to give you a firm grounding of At the RAU you make friends for life, www.rau.ac.uk the agricultural industry. Both the work hard and live in one of the most Foundation Degree and BSc allow you Progression opportunities idyllic settings with people who share to explore your own interests within The course prepares you for further education in agriculture similar interests from far and wide. agriculture and network with potential and land management. Upon successful completion of employers. the foundation degree, you’ll have the opportunity to progress on to an appropriate BSc Honours top-up course, such as BSc (Hons) Agricultural Management at the RAU. Progression opportunities will also be available to appropriate honours conversion courses at other Higher Education institutions in the UK. 50 FdSc Animal Science Subject to validation

Whether you’re interested in domestic animals, exotic Career prospects UCAS code: AS1C species or farm animals, studying the science and Full-time or part-time technology of the field is a gateway to many rewarding The programme has been designed to enable graduates to careers. Our degree course in Animal Science will give you pursue a range of careers in the following areas: Course manager the academic and practical experience to take your pick Dr Anne Stevenson • Animal Nutritionist • Animal Conservation email from a range of careers including a nutritionist, laboratory • Laboratory Bodies [email protected] technician and veterinary specialist. Technician • Farms • Veterinary Practices • Zoos and Animal Entry requirements Studying with us gives you access to the expertise and Collections UCAS points 56 resources of the RAU and our partners Cirencester College, Course structure A Level CD (minimum one A Level including new state-of-the-art bioscience laboratories and pass) an animal centre with more than 80 species. This course has been designed with our partners at Cirencester College, utilising the expertise and resources BTEC MPP On this specialist animal science degree, you’ll gain in- of both institutions; including the use of the Cirencester GCSE (Minimum five GCSEs) – depth laboratory training and practical animal handling and College animal centre. English and Mathematics Grade husbandry skills – all underpinned by a strong theoretical C are required (Grade 4 for new core of knowledge relevant to a range of animal species As well as laboratory classes and animal handling classes GCSEs) and animal business contexts. at both the RAU and Cirencester College campuses, you’ll Access to HE 45 credits at Level learn via lectures, seminars and a period of practical work- When it comes to applying your knowledge, you’ll have 3 of which 15 must be awarded at based learning at both level 4 and level 5, enabling you to the added advantage of commercial experience and Merit or higher apply theoretical learning to real-life practical situations in a entrepreneurial know-how, developed on a work experience range of different commercial businesses. Please see page 104 for full placement during the summer holiday after your first year. details. This will significantly strengthen your portfolio, whether you use it to gain future employment or continue your studies in a range of animal-related subjects, including farm animals, equine, wildlife and zoology-based areas. Meet the course manager

Find out more Find about Dr Anne Stevenson’s out more experience and expertise. www.rau. www.rau.ac.uk/AnneStevenson ac.uk/ ug-as 51

Modules Year one

• Bioscience Laboratory Skills 1 • Anatomy and Physiology 1 • Fundamentals of Biology • Animal Husbandry • Introduction to Animal Behaviour, Ethics and Environmental Impact • Work Based Learning 1 Year two

• Bioscience Laboratory Skills 2 • Animal Health and Nutrition • Genetics and Breeding • Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Animal Science Sector • Work Based Learning 2 • Specialist Elective (focused on either agriculture, equine, wildlife or exotic/companion animal species)

Course modules are subject to change. The most up-to-date course details can be found at www.rau.ac.uk

Progression opportunities

Upon successful completion of the foundation degree, you’ll have the opportunity to progress onto an appropriate BSc (Hons) top-up programme delivered or validated by the RAU, including BSc (Hons) in Agricultural Management, BSc (Hons) Equine Studies, BSc (Hons) Wildlife Conservation, BSc (Hons) Animal Science & Management. Progression opportunities will also be available to appropriate Honours conversion courses at other Higher Education Institutions in the UK. 52 BSc (Hons) Agricultural Management (top-up) There has never been greater demand for well-qualified, Course structure UCAS code: D400 enterprising farm business managers who know what it You’ll study two core modules covering current affairs takes to sustain a viable agricultural economy. Studying on Full-time or part-time within the agricultural industry and an integrated farm an agricultural management top-up with us will help you Course manager planning project requiring the production of a business prepare for a future that realises your ambitions and meets Dr Rachael Foy plan and complete a Research Project on an area of your the world’s needs. email own interest. You’ll then select four elective modules, to [email protected] Whether you’re aiming for a career in farm management, further specialise in a specific sector or to gain a broader Entry requirements agricultural consultancy or an environmental / land understanding of agriculture, land-use and business issues. A foundation degree or a HND management advisory role, this course will lead you there. If you’ve already secured employment you may choose to award (merit) in a related subject. You’ll learn about everything from business planning, study up to 50% of the course in the workplace, reducing soil analysis, livestock production and welfare and crop the amount of time you are required to attend campus- production to environmental protection; with lessons taking based modules. place in the lecture theatre and in laboratories as well as on The course will be delivered through a series of lectures, Meet the farms and via practicing agricultural case studies. course seminars, group projects, visits and demonstrations at local manager Career prospects farms, agricultural businesses and in the RAU laboratories. Find out more Students also have access to the University’s Farm491 about Dr Rachael Foy’s Our graduates have gone on to pursue careers within facility, an innovative agri-tech business incubator providing experience and expertise. agricultural companies worldwide: facilities and support to agri-tech businesses and promoting www.rau.ac.uk/RachaelFoy • Agrii • Dalmark Group technology and innovation within the sector. • NIAB TAG • Witney Grain Modules are assessed through a range of blended learning • AGCO • Mole Valley Farmers techniques, including research projects, examinations, • Alltech • Agrovista presentations, work based learning and case studies. Find • Natural England • Bright Seeds out more • G’s Fresh • Hutchinsons www.rau. • NFU • Courtyard ac.uk/ • Waitrose Partnership ug-am • Criddle & Co Ltd • Intelligent Precision Farming • Gleadell Fulfilling roles within the following areas: • Farm / Estate • Farm and Manager Environmental • Food and Bio Advisor Crop Manager • Agricultural Supplier • Agricultural / Land- • Grain Trader based Consultant • Crop Advisor 53

“The RAU holds a place in the heart of anyone who has studied there, and the memories made whilst at Modules Cirencester will remain forever. Core modules My advice to anyone thinking of studying here would be, do it!” – Integrated Farm Project – Emerging Agricultural Issues Name: Ben Cavill – Honours Dissertation Course: BSc (Hons) Agricultural Management (top-up) Plus FOUR elective modules, selected from: Career: Anaerobic Digester Plant Operator – Management Information Systems for Farming Businesses Having grown up in the countryside The University’s extensive range – Farm Machinery Management with an ambition to work in agriculture, of literature along with the expert – Rural Business Diversification choosing to study at the Royal knowledge of the teaching staff is – Advanced Crop Production Agricultural University was an easy second to none. – Advanced Livestock Production decision for me. Having not wanted Upon leaving the RAU, I took on the – Marketing Communication the hustle and bustle of university in operator role of an on-farm anaerobic – Agricultural and Equine Journalism a town or city, the close-knit campus digestion plant in Cornwall producing – Farmland Ecology and community spirit made the RAU a electricity for the national grid, a farm – Game and Deer Management welcoming home from home. diversification that uses home grown – GIS Modelling of the Environment The University has academic resources feedstocks and potato waste to supply – Corporate Finance to suit all learning styles which offers approximately 2,000 homes. – Advanced Crop and Plant Science every individual the opportunity to The RAU holds a place in the heart – Soil Analysis and Interpretation meet their full potential and the mix of of everyone who has studied there – Climate Change and Development full group seminars and smaller focus and the memories made whilst at – Countryside Management groups allows lecturers to get to know Cirencester will remain forever. My – Wine Industry you on a personal level and strive to advice to anyone thinking of studying – Critical Issues in Organisation push your personal development. here would be, do it! – Small Scale Farming and Local Food Supply – Farming and Integrated Environmental Local Delivery – Sustainable Business and Agri-food Supply Chains – Integrated Organic Systems – Management Information Systems for Farming Businesses

Course modules are subject to change. The most up-to-date course details can be found at www.rau.ac.uk 54 One Year Farming course

The agricultural industry is undergoing a critical phase of Career prospects Full-time or part-time adaptation and change as it faces numerous challenges. Course manager Individuals who have the practical skills and knowledge Our graduates have the skills and knowledge to pursue a Michael Draper to be part of the solutions, being carved out across the career as: email field, are in high demand. The RAU, with over a century of [email protected] • Livestock or Crop • Animal Health experience and a global reputation, is perfectly placed to Operators Representatives To apply: help you play your part in the future of farming. • Enterprise and • Farm [email protected] Unit Managers Representatives This one-year farming course has been tailor made for and Advisors Entry requirements those seeking to become farmers, landowners or managers Course structure GCSE Five GCSEs Grades A*-C of contemporary farm enterprises. You’ll find yourself (Grades 9-4 for new GCSEs) learning alongside the best in the business on site at our This short course aims to expand your understanding of including English and Mathematics. farms and at our Rural Innovation Centre. some of the current challenges facing the agricultural Evidence of effective use of time industry, such as improving production methods, traceability You’ll study all key aspects of modern farming practices, post-GCSE. and sustainability. The course covers all key aspects of crop and animal husbandry and science, as well as farm A period of practical experience is modern farming practices, including crop and animal mechanisation, administration and an introduction to farm highly recommended. husbandry and science, as well as farm mechanisation, and estate management. administration and an introduction to farm and estate Please see page 104 for full On successful completion of the course, you’ll be awarded management. details. a Royal Agricultural University Certificate of Agriculture and It will be delivered through a series of lectures, seminars will be entitled to use the MRAU post-nominal letters. and practical classes at the University farms and As a tailor-made, skills-based course, it will provide you laboratories. Assessment activities centre largely around Meet the with the opportunity to hone your practical skills on our real-life scenarios based on the farms. You’ll complete course manager farms and at the Rural Innovation Centre. project work, case studies, presentations and one-to-one This is a privately-funded course. Applicants will not discussions. There are termly tests to monitor progress and Find out more provide feedback. about Michael Draper’s have access to student loans from the Student Loans experience and expertise. Company or other government funding initiatives. Fees www.rau.ac.uk/MichaelDraper must be paid in advance at the start of each semester.

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Modules – Crop Production and Science – Livestock Production and Science – Machinery and Buildings – Estate Management – General Agricultural Issues – Farming and the Environment – Farm Administration – Skills Training 56

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Food Supply and Management 57 Q. How can I contribute to improving the efficiency and sustainability of the food and drink supply chain?

Everyone has to eat, and the agri-food production and the skills to manage sector is booming, worth around £97 complex supply chains on a local and a billion and employing more than 3.5 global scale. million people in the UK alone. The Our courses aim to equip you with the sector is also the key to providing safe skills, knowledge and confidence to foods in an economically, socially and lead this industry; either from within environmentally sustainable manner to a large corporation or through your a growing world population on an ever- own entrepreneurial business start-up. decreasing cultivatable land footprint. You’ll graduate with a food degree that The effects of changing consumer is focussed towards your own interests A. demands, government edicts about and career aspirations; whether that Royal dietary diseases, such as obesity and is as a buyer of sustainable food Agricultural diabetes, and natural disasters, not ingredients, a quality or technical to mention Brexit, mean this fast- manager, a government adviser on University moving industry requires confident, food policy or the CEO of your own Cirencester reliable, enthusiastic employees with food business. an excellent understanding of food Know how 58 BSc (Hons) Food Production and Supply Management Food supply chains provide the link between primary Pursuing career opportunities as: UCAS code: D642 producers and the consumer, through processors, • Food Production • Buyer Full-time or part-time manufacturers, suppliers, marketing organisations, Manager • Supplier Implant wholesalers and retailers. These aspects must link together • Distributor • Sales Manager Course manager • Customer effectively whilst considering the impact of economic, social • Account Manager Dr John Dooley Co-ordinator • Retail Manager email and environmental factors on sustainability. [email protected] As supply chains become more globalised and complex, Additional hygiene qualifications gained throughout the there is greater emphasis on food safety and quality, course enable graduates to enter supply chains at various Entry requirements traceability and public health. stages as technical or operational managers, buyers and UCAS points 104 safety managers. A Level BCC (minimum three A2 Developed in consultation with major companies within the Level passes) agri-food sector, this course addresses these issues while Course structure BTEC DMM focussing on the management and quality enhancement of The course will be delivered through lectures, tutorials, GCSE English and Mathematics products. It provides a grounding in the technologies that industrial visits, student and tutor-led seminars, directed Grade C are required (Grade 4 for define modern food production and explores the impact of reading and case studies, including use of our recently new GCSEs) rapidly evolving consumer behaviour on food supply chain acquired vineyard. Practical experience would be management. advantageous, but a desire to learn Modules are assessed through coursework, including about food is more important. Career prospects real-life case studies, presentations (including food products developed as part of your study), reports and Our graduates are equipped with the skills necessary to Please see page 104 for full details. some examinations at the end of each semester. manage key aspects of the complex and dynamic food sector at both the small-medium enterprise and large Work placement corporate scale. They have gone on to work for the following You’ll complete a 20-week work placement in your second Meet the companies: course year, relevant to your interests and aspirations. If you wish • Waitrose • Willy Chase’s manager to undertake an extended period of work placement you • Tebay Services • Self-employed may interrupt your studies to undertake a 12 or 18 month Find out more • Huntapac (own start-ups) work placement. This industry experience helps you to about Dr John Dooley’s • Co-op • DHL experience and expertise. • Silver Crane • Daylesford develop key employability skills and gain invaluable industry www.rau.ac.uk/JohnDooley Company contacts. • Primafruit Find out more www.rau. ac.uk/ ug-fpsm 59

“The RAU has given me a solid foundation of friendship and knowledge which will Modules last a lifetime and has been instrumental Year one in demonstrating how diverse and crucial the agri-food industry really is.” – Introduction to Food Production – Business Environment – Human Nutrition, Health and Society Name: Jessica Maude – Agricultural and Food Production Science Course: BSc (Hons) Food Production and Supply Management – The Business of Food Career: Distribution and Supply Chain Team at Daylesford Organic – Food Testing and Science – Business Finance I will never forget my first morning Within three months of graduating, I – Personal Development Planning waking up on campus and opening began my career at Daylesford Organic Year two the curtains to beautiful Cotswold as part of the distribution team, which countryside; there was no doubt in my involves communicating with suppliers – Food Safety and Quality Management mind that I had made the right choice and dealing with supply chain issues, – Consumer Science to study at the RAU. linking in perfectly with my RAU – Fresh Produce Dynamics I’ve always had a keen interest in studies. – Food and Agricultural Marketing the provenance of food and the – International Business (Agricultural Trade) The RAU has given me a solid processes it goes through to get to – Research Methods foundation of friendship and my plate and my time reading Food – Food Supply Chains in Practice knowledge which will last a lifetime Production and Supply Management – Marketing Management and has been instrumental in has only reinforced this passion – Work Placement demonstrating how diverse and crucial through improving my knowledge of the agri-food industry really is. Year three how supply chains work. From animal – Advances in Food Science and Technology and crop sciences, to operations – Advanced Dairy Food Chains management, the unique opportunity – Global Meat Chains to study such an extensive range of – Honours Research Project topics was truly the best start to a Plus TWO elective modules. career in food supply chains.

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Environment 61

Q. How can I make a difference for a sustainable environment? The Royal Agricultural University offers Our University farms, along with the you a fantastic opportunity to learn how Rural Innovation Centre at Harnhill to manage the countryside, wildlife and Manor Farm and a neighbouring rural heritage. The key aim is to equip forestry estate, give us ideal platforms you with the necessary knowledge on which to train students in the and understanding, alongside those various vocational skills required by practical and leadership skills, that industry, such as use of machinery employers are looking for. We offer a (chainsaws, brushcutters, ATVs and range of foundation degree pathways tractors) and ecological survey work allowing you to develop your interests (vegetation and mammal surveys). in a particular subject area, with the A. In essence, the University works to Royal opportunity to progress onto a bespoke deepen the understanding of the living top-up degree at the RAU. and physical environment and promote Agricultural We take full advantage of the great working in partnership with land University contacts we have with industry, managers to contribute to sustainable Cirencester through guest speakers, field visits and management for the future. work-based placements. Know how 62 FdSc British Wildlife Conservation This course gives you a comprehensive understanding Course structure UCAS code: 7C27 of the key concepts and principles in British habitat The course has been designed with our partners at conservation and wildlife management. It combines Full-time or part-time Cirencester College, utilising the expertise and resources of academic theory with work-based experience and ensures Course manager both institutions; including use of the Cirencester College you’re fully trained in industry standard techniques of Kelly Swallow animal centre with more than 80 species. email research and fieldwork. You’ll be trained to manage wildlife [email protected] sites sustainably, in the light of environmental change, In the first year, teaching places emphasis on work-related population demands, economic pressure and agricultural situations in addition to academic study. In the second year, Entry requirements requirements and understand the roles of different you’ll develop a deeper understanding of the key issues UCAS points 56 regulatory and advisory bodies involved in the protection of covered. You’ll visit numerous environmental conservation A Level CD (minimum one A2 Level these sites. and wildlife management enterprises. pass) BTEC MPP Career prospects There will be an opportunity to gain practical rural skills GCSE English and Mathematics training through the Rural Innovation Centre at Harnhill Grade C are required (Grade 4 for Our graduates have gone on to pursue a range of careers Manor Farm. The cost of the practical training courses is new GCSEs) within a number of organisations: included in the tuition fee. A period of practical experience is • Farming and Wildlife • Forestry The course will be assessed through a wide range of highly recommended. Advisory Group Commission techniques including research projects, examinations, • National Trust • Ecological case studies, field reports, portfolios, presentations and Please see page 104 for full • The Wildlife Trusts Consultancy Businesses practical skills. details. Fulfilling roles within many areas: Work placement • Ecological • Environmental Consultant Education Officer You’ll complete a 30-day period of compulsory work Meet the • Conservation / • Practical Land- experience usually during the summer holiday between course Biodiversity Officer based Skills Trainer manager your first and second year, to experience wildlife and • Landscape Ecologist • Field Survey Worker environmental management activities within the sector. • Community • Reserve Ranger Find out more You’ll be expected to produce a portfolio of about Kelly Swallow’s Wildlife Officer evidence of your learning experience. experience and expertise. www.rau.ac.uk/KellySwallow Find out more www.rau. ac.uk/ ug-bwc 63

“The location of the university is stunning, sitting in an area of Modules outstanding natural beauty, so studying conservation being in Year one an area which contains so much wildlife and heritage is amazing.” – Introduction to Environmental Conservation and Heritage Management – Landscape: Physical and Biological Name: Alice Handscombe – Wildlife Conservation: Principles and Practice Course: FdSc British Wildlife Conservation – Field Ecology Career: Student – Wildlife Handling and Survey I don’t come from any sort of chainsaw and first aid. The lecturers – Practical Conservation Skills agricultural or environmental are also so enthusiastic about the Year two background at all, being from a course and experts in their field. – Wildlife Habitat Management built-up town. However, I had always You genuinely feel a part of the group – Landscape Conservation wanted to study in this area and after learning up-to-date information about – Wildlife Management researching and exploring the different the subjects. universities and the courses they – Amenity, Access and Education The location of the University is had to offer, the Royal Agricultural – Personal Wildlife Study stunning, sitting in an area of University clearly defined itself and – Supervisory and Mentoring Skills outstanding natural beauty, so studying I couldn’t be more pleased with my Course modules are subject to change. conservation being in an area which choice. The most up-to-date course details can be found at contains so much wildlife and heritage www.rau.ac.uk The practical, hands-on approach the is amazing. I’ve met so many great RAU offers is one of the key points people and can’t wait to spend the Progression opportunities that made me choose to study here. next few years studying here. The course prepares you for further education Practical days are a vital part of this in wildlife and environmental conservation. Upon course, which gives us valuable skills successful completion of the foundation degree, you’ll needed in conservation. After the have the opportunity to progress on to an appropriate first semester, I’ve already got extra BSc Honours course, such as BSc (Hons) Wildlife qualifications from courses such as and Countryside and Management or BSc (Hons) Countryside Management at the RAU. Progression opportunities will also be available to appropriate honours conversion programmes at other Higher Education Institutions in the UK. 64 FdSc Environmental Conservation and Heritage Management This course has been developed in response to the Course structure UCAS code: D492 increasing demand for employees within the environmental, The course has been designed with our partners at conservation and heritage sectors, with significant Full-time or part-time Cirencester College, utilising the expertise and resources of input from those organisations who are involved in the Course manager both institutions. conservation and preservation of our natural habitats, Dr Ian Grange The first year is the underpinning year, which introduces email landscapes and historic resources. [email protected] the principles of ecology, landscape development, cultural The course has been designed with the input of industry history and heritage management. The second year will Entry requirements and sector specialists along with our partners at Cirencester further develop your skills through more in-depth activities. UCAS points 56 College and offers a unique blend of academic and You’ll undertake habitat surveys, research projects, A Level CD (minimum one A2 Level practical training that will be your professional gateway into presentations and produce information resources. pass) environmental, conservation and heritage sectors. BTEC MPP In addition, you’ll be trained in a range of practical GCSE English and Mathematics Career prospects conservation, archaeological and field skills. You’ll have Grade C are required (Grade 4 for opportunities to complete recognised training courses Our graduates are well placed for employment within: new GCSEs) in machinery and equipment operations at the Rural • Historic England • Forestry A period of practical experience is Innovation Centre Harnhill Manor Farm, relevant to • Natural England Commission conservation or heritage activities. The cost of these training recommended. • Environment Agency • Farming Wildlife Advisory Group courses is included in the tuition fee. • National Trust Please see page 104 for full • RSPCA • RSPB The course will be assessed through a wide range of details. Fulfilling roles within many areas: techniques including research projects, examinations, • Countryside Ranger • Community case studies, business plans, portfolios, presentations • Reserve Manager Wildlife Officer and practical skills. You’ll also be required to supervise Meet the • Estate Manager • Environmental and mentor first year students on practical conservation Education Officer course • Archaeological activities as part of your training in volunteer management. manager Consultant • Landscape Ecologist • Ecological • Farming and Work placement Find out more Consultant Wildlife Advisor about Ian Grange’s You’ll complete a 30-day period of compulsory work experience and expertise. • Conservation / • Agri Environmental Biodiversity Officer Advisor placement, usually during the summer holiday between www.rau.ac.uk/IanGrange your first and second year, to gain an in-depth experience wildlife, heritage, and environmental management activities Find within the sector. You’ll be expected to produce a portfolio of out more evidence of this learning experience. www.rau.ac. uk/ug-echm 65 Modules “The RAU helped me to develop an Year one interest in environmental research – Introducing Environmental Conservation and Heritage and I am now studying for my PhD.” – Species and Environment – Landscape Cultural History and Change Name: Lloyd Cockram – Field Ecology Course: FdSc Environmental Conservation and – Heritage Management 1 Heritage Management and BSc (Hons) Countryside – Practical Conservation Skills Management Year two Career: RAU PhD student

– Heritage Management 2 I was drawn to the foundation degree years away from the RAU gaining – Landscape Conservation in Environmental Conservation and further research experience, through – Wildlife Habitat Management Heritage Management at the RAU by internships and job roles, before – Amenity Access and Education its dual emphasis on academic tuition returning to study for a PhD. – Historic Asset Management and practical experience. – Supervisory and Mentoring Skills I’m currently carrying out research The flexibility offered by the course investigating the potential for natural Course modules are subject to change. gave me the opportunity to explore my features to remove pesticide pollutants The most up-to-date course details can be found at own interests and the curriculum was from agricultural surface runoff. www.rau.ac.uk engaging enough that I was constantly It’s a real testament to my opinion Progression opportunities discovering new interests to pursue. I of the RAU that after spending three found the support and encouragement years studying here, I would so readily The course prepares you for further education in of the staff second to none, helping commit to three more. environmental conservation and heritage management. me to meet all challenges and to Upon successful completion of this foundation degree, realise my own potential. I decided you’ll have the opportunity to progress onto an appropriate to progress on to the BSc (Hons) BSc Honours course, such as BSc (Hons) Countryside Countryside Management top-up Management or BSc (Hons) Wildlife and Countryside course and found the two courses Management at the RAU. Progression opportunities will also complemented each other well. be available to appropriate honours conversion courses at other Higher Education Institutions in the UK. It was through my experience at the RAU that I developed an interest in environmental research, which I was keen to pursue further. I spent two 66 BSc (Hons) Countryside Management (top-up) Recent decades have seen a critical rise in the demands Course structure UCAS code: D444 and challenges faced by the countryside, from population You’ll study the core module in Countryside Management, growth and food production, to habitat reduction and Full-time or part-time which cover a range of key issues, and select five biodiversity loss, recreational pressures and urban Course manager elective modules. Within the broad remit of countryside development. Addressing those challenges requires a level Dr Ian Grange management, these elective choices give you the of expertise that the RAU, with over a century of experience email opportunity to pursue specific areas of interest and better [email protected] working within the sector, is ideally suited to help you position yourself in the job market. You’ll also complete a master. Entry requirements Research Project within a subject area of specific interest or A foundation degree or a HND Whether you already work in this arena or aspire to do so, relevance to your future job aspirations. award (merit) in a related subject. this countryside management course will advance your If you’ve already secured employment and are studying environmental and landscape knowledge, empowering part-time, you may elect to follow the Work-based Research you to have the necessary skills and knowledge to make Project: Improving Personal Professional Practice module informed and effective countryside management decisions. in place of the Research Project, thus reducing the time Meet the required to attend campus-based modules. course Career prospects manager The course will be delivered through a series of lectures, Our graduates go on to pursue careers within the seminars and group projects. This is further enhanced Find out more conservation or countryside management sectors, working about Ian Grange’s through field visits hosted by environmental organisations within statutory bodies, NGOs, county councils, country experience and expertise. and land managers working within the countryside sector. parks, and large farms and estates, such as: www.rau.ac.uk/IanGrange Modules are assessed through a range of techniques • Natural England • The Wildlife Trusts • Historic England • RSPB including research projects, examinations, presentations, • National Trust • Farming and Wildlife and case studies. Advisory Group If the elective Ecology Study Tour is selected, there will be Find Fulfilling roles within many areas: a student contribution of up to £1,000 and an institutional out more • Countryside Ranger • Community contribution of up to £1,000. www.rau. • Reserve Manager Wildlife Officer ac.uk/ • Estate Manager • Environmental Education Officer ug-cm • Archaeological Consultant • Landscape Ecologist • Ecological • Farming and Consultant Wildlife Advisor • Conservation / • Agri Environmental Biodiversity Officer Advisor 67 Modules “The RAU has provided me with Core modules brilliant career prospects, as well as – Countryside Management important contacts for the future.” – Research Project OR Name: Thomas Edwards – Work-based Research Project: Improving Personal Course: BSc (Hons) Countryside Management (top-up) Professional Practice* Career: RAU MScR student Plus FIVE elective modules, selected from: – Ecology Study Tour On completion of a foundation degree an enjoyable learning environment, – Farmland Ecology in horticulture, I looked to the Royal enhanced by regular farm visits and – Farming and Integrated Environmental Local Delivery Agricultural University to further trips to national parks. This gave us – Forestry and Woodland Management my education. I already knew of its the opportunity to engage with farmers – Game and Deer Management prestigious reputation and had heard and park management teams. – Rural Business Diversification excellent recommendations from – Sustainable Management of Soil and Water Graduating from the Countryside previous students. – Climate Change and Development Management top-up provided me with – Heritage Property My passion for the natural environment an excellent stepping stone to enrol on Course modules are subject to change. lead me to the BSc (Hons) Countryside to a Masters by Research programme The most up-to-date course details can be found at Management top-up degree, on which at the RAU, supported by Thames www.rau.ac.uk I was able to study a broad variety Water (read more on page 41). of agricultural and environmental Once I have completed this, I hope *If you’ve already secured employment, you may elect management topics. The course to pursue a career in environmental to follow the Work-based Research Project: Improving boasts a wide range of modules, research consultancy. Personal Professional Practice module, thus reducing the including forestry and woodland, soil time required to attend campus-based modules. The RAU has provided me with brilliant and water management and farmland career prospects, as well as securing ecology, so I was able to hone my important contacts and making like- academic disciplines into a career path minded lifelong friends. that suited me.

I received excellent support from staff who provided me with the knowledge I needed to excel. Tutors provided 68 BSc (Hons) Wildlife and Countryside Management (top-up) Do you see yourself pursuing a career as an ecological Career prospects UCAS code: C1D4 consultant, a field ecologist, biodiversity officer or perhaps a Full-time or part-time wildlife reserve or country park manager? These and other Graduates are highly likely to pursue a range of careers routes will be open to you as a graduate of this Wildlife and within a number of organisations: Course manager Countryside Management top-up course, which has been Kelly Swallow • Farming and Wildlife • Forestry email designed with the help of employers and organisations Advisory Group Commission [email protected] directly involved in conservation. • The Wildlife Trusts • Ecological • National Trust Consultancy Entry requirements As the world of countryside management finds itself • Local Government A foundation degree or an HND confronted by ever more complex challenges, the industry Fulfilling roles within many areas: award (merit) in a related subject. is eager to recruit highly skilled people who know how to • Ecological • Environmental balance environmental, economic and agricultural demands. Consultant Education Officer This course will give you that know how. • Conservation / • Wildlife Centre Biodiversity Officer Worker You’ll study animal ecology, including animal behaviour, Meet the • Landscape Ecologist • Reserve Ranger course evolution and ecological processes over a range of • Community • Country Park manager ecosystems and species. You’ll also study ecological Wildlife Officer Manager consultancy, to ensure you’re trained in report writing, client • Field Surveyor Find out more about Kelly Swallow’s liaison, legislation and policy and conducting key protected Course structure experience and expertise. species surveys. This course has been designed with our partners at www.rau.ac.uk/KellySwallow An elective 7-10 day ecology study tour will provide Cirencester College, utilising the expertise and resources you with practical understanding of ecology, land-use of both institutions; including the use of the Cirencester and research in a contrasting environment. The current College animal centre with more than 80 species. destination is Namibia, although alternative locations are a Find possibility. You’ll study three core modules and complete a Research out more Project. You’ll also select three elective modules, giving www.rau. you the opportunity to pursue specific areas of interest and ac.uk/ better position yourself in the job market. ug-wcm The course will be delivered through a series of lectures, seminars, group projects and visits and demonstrations. Modules are assessed through a range of techniques, including research projects, examinations, presentations and case studies.

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Modules “Being a student at the Core modules RAU gave me the skills and knowledge to secure a position – Countryside Management in the ecology sector, before – Animal Ecology I had even graduated!” – Ecological Consultancy – Research Project Name: Martin Thomas Smith OR Course: BSc (Hons) Wildlife and Countryside – Work-based Research Project: Improving Personal Management (top-up) Professional Practice* Career: Assistant Ecologist for Ethos Environmental Planning Plus THREE elective modules, selected from: – Ecology Study Tour The Royal Agricultural University was I also made connections at the RAU – Farmland Ecology perfect for me; the classes were often that assist me with continued learning – Game and Deer Management intimate with a high-level of interaction and career development. Through the – Forestry and Woodland Management between students and lecturers and university I have gained knowledge – Farming and Integrated Environmental Local Delivery much of the fieldwork and classes concerning farming. This has given – Sustainable Management of Soil and Water were taken outside. The campus me a different set of skills to many – Natural Resource Management environment was great for fieldwork others looking to enter the ecology – Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing and the surrounding landscape of sector, as most ecologists are not – Improving Personal Professional Practice* common land, calcareous grasslands as knowledgeable when it comes to and ancient woodland was great for farming. This may also provide new Course modules are subject to change. wildlife and history. I completed the opportunities if farming subsidies are The most up-to-date course details can be found at course with a first-class honours reformed. Looking back, I made a good www.rau.ac.uk degree and because the course was decision to attend the University. I will *If you’ve already secured employment, you may elect applied and practical, I was able to be going back to the RAU in May to to follow the Work-based Research Project: Improving take modules which were directly assist with bat surveys on the campus. Personal Professional Practice module, thus reducing the related to my current work position as time required to attend campus-based modules. an Assistant Ecologist. Being a student at the RAU gave me the skills and knowledge to get a position in the ecology sector before I had even graduated. This was through applied modules, knowledgeable lecturers that provided us with real countryside experience and the flexibility to work and volunteer alongside studying. 70

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Business and Enterprise 71

Q. How do I learn to make profit and be socially responsible? If you’re an aspiring entrepreneur We believe this enhances our students’ or keen on developing a successful CVs and makes them more attractive career in business or agribusiness, to potential employers. Annual then studying an undergraduate membership to thre CMI is free for one business degree at the Royal year after graduation. Agricultural University is the right The University runs an award-winning choice for you. Enterprise and Entrepreneurship You’ll be taught by academics who are Programme, which has supported experts in their subject area and bring many students in starting their own their industry experience and research successful businesses. in to the classroom to ensure you The programme offers First Steps develop the knowledge and skills the Funding to help students test their industry is looking for. business idea and provides help and All of our students undertake a work guidance at all levels of business placement as part of their programme, start-up. Entrepreneurial skills are which allows them to gain valuable highly prized by employers, who seek A. experience and see how what they employees who can demonstrate their Royal are learning is used in practice. All creativity and will help the company to of our honours degrees have dual evolve and develop. Agricultural accreditation from the Chartered Business is a vibrant and exciting University Management Institute (CMI), so in Cirencester subject and we look forward to addition to your degree you’ll receive welcoming you as one of our students. a separate qualification from the CMI. Know how 72 BSc (Hons) International Business Management This course provides you with a thorough grounding in Pursuing career opportunities as: UCAS code: N200 general business management and the opportunity to study • Business Consultant • Consultant Full-time or part-time particular themes in greater depth. It will equip you with • Commodity Trader • Public Administrator the analytical and problem-solving skills required within a • Market and • Communication, Course manager Insurance Broker Media or Event business context. Dr Federico Topolansky • Recruitment Manager email The BSc (Hons) International Business Management course Manager • Project Manager [email protected] is accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). Course structure Entry requirements The curriculum has been reviewed by the CMI and students UCAS points 96 completing the programme will receive the CMI Level 6 The course will be delivered through lectures, tutorials, A Level CCC (minimum two A2 Diploma in Management and Leadership and become a visiting lecturers, student and tutor-led seminars, directed Level passes) member of the Chartered Management Institute (MCMI). reading, problem-based and experiential learning and BTEC MMM Annual membership to CMI is free for one year after case studies. GCSE English and Mathematics graduation. Modules are assessed through a range of coursework Grade C are required (Grade 4 for In addition, this BSc (Hons) course, when taken with the including essays, reports, presentations, and group work. new GCSEs) marketing electives, has been approved and accredited by There are timed examinations at the end of each year. the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) to provide direct Please see page 104 for full The Research Project is an integral part of the course. entry onto the CIM’s Professional Diploma in Marketing. details. Completed in your third year, it provides the opportunity to study in-depth a subject of specific interest or of direct Accredited by the Career prospects relevance to your future employment. Chartered Management Institute Our graduates go on to use their business training in a Work placement range of companies nationally and internationally: Member of the Chartered You‘ll complete a 20-week work placement in your second • Old Mill Group • Winkworth Association of Business Schools • Criddle • Chesterfield Group year, relevant to your interests and aspirations. If you wish • Millar Cameron • Fastnet Brands Ltd to undertake an extended period of work placement you • Morrisons • G’s Fresh may interrupt your studies to undertake a 12 or 18 month Meet the • ADM • St James’s Place work placement. You may choose to link this to your final course • Mitsubishi • Pipers Crisps year elective modules or Research Project. Work experience manager Motors UK • Harrods helps you to develop key employability skills and gain • Weatherbys Find out more invaluable industry contacts. about Federico Topolansky’s • Unilever experience and expertise. Find www.rau.ac.uk/FedericoTopolansky out more www.rau. ac.uk/ ug-ibm 73 Modules

Year one Year two Year three

– The Business Environment – Marketing Management – Making Management Decisions – Entrepreneur in Action – People Management and – Management, Ethics and Professional Development – Communication and Information Organisation – Business Strategy – Human Resources in Context – Financial Management – International Business Issues – Fundamentals of Marketing and – Work Placement Incorporating – Research Project Retailing Personal and Professional Plus TWO elective modules, selected from: – Business Finance Development – Critical Issues in Organisation and – Management Accounting – The Business of Food – Researching Business, Management Management – Operations Management – Personal and Professional and Entrepreneurship – Marketing Communication – Consumer Behaviour Development Planning – Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship – Strategic Human Resource – Entrepreneurship – Principles of Business and Company and Enterprise Development Management – Wine Industry Law in the UK – International Business – Corporate Finance – Rural Business Diversification – Omni Channel Business Course modules are subject to change. The most up-to-date course details can be found at www.rau.ac.uk

“The 20-week work placement that I undertook in year two was a great experience that looked excellent on my CV and allowed me to put my understanding into practice.”

Name: Hannah Renwick Course: BSc (Hons) International Business Management Career: International Strategy Consultant

After looking around several different The International Business Management CV and allowed universities, I chose to study at the Royal course gave me an excellent broad overview me to put my Agricultural University due to its uniqueness, of general business management, but also understanding into size and stunning campus. I loved the provided opportunities to study key aspects practice. friendly community feel that it had and the in more depth. A big seller was the fact that I have thoroughly small class sizes meant I could get the most the course is accredited by the Chartered enjoyed my out of my study and allowed me to build a Association of Business Schools meaning time studying at close relationship with my lecturers. it is highly regarded by employers across the RAU and wouldn’t think twice about the country. The 20-week work placement The RAU has a strong reputation and the recommending it to anyone. lecturers are enthusiastic and professionals that I undertook in year two was a great within their fields. experience that looked excellent on my 74 BSc (Hons) International Business Management (Food and Agribusiness) Do you have your sights set on a career in the world of UCAS code: DN62 Career prospects corporate finance, event management or consultancy Full-time or part-time on the international stage? Whatever your ambitions, Our graduates have gone on to enter general business our International Business Management (Food and management positions across all industries, as well as the Course manager Dr Federico Topolansky Agribusiness) course, which is accredited by the Chartered food industry specifically: email Management Institute (CMI), will help you get there. • Old Mill Group • Laurent-Perrier UK [email protected] The increasingly fast-paced corporate climate has created • Criddle • Pipers Crisps Entry requirements a wealth of opportunities for business management • Millar Cameron • St James’s Place • Morrisons • Bakkavor Group UCAS points 96 graduates with strong analytical expertise and problem- • ADM • Weatherbys A Level CCC (minimum two A2 solving business acumen. Our course leaders will also help • Mitsubishi • Unilever Level passes) you improve your communication and presentation skills, Motors UK BTEC MMM ensuring that you graduate with the know-how that today’s Pursuing potential career opportunities as: GCSE English and Mathematics employers are looking for. • Food Produce • Consultant / Advisor Grade C are required (Grade 4 for This course equips you with the skills and knowledge Manager • Communication, new GCSEs) necessary to pursue career opportunities within • International Media, or Event Sourcing Manager Manager organisations across a wide range of sectors and Please see page 104 for full • Supply Chain • Finance Manager details. interests. You’ll develop the analytical and problem-solving Manager • Accountant skills required within a business context and gain an • Food and Drink • General Business Accredited by the understanding of how to engage with the food industry Manager Manager Chartered Management Institute globally. The curriculum has been reviewed by the CMI Course structure and students completing the programme will receive the Member of the Chartered CMI Level 6 Diploma in Management and Leadership and The course will be delivered through lectures, tutorials, Association of Business Schools become a member of the Chartered Management Institute visiting lecturers, student and tutor-led seminars, directed (MCMI). Annual membership to CMI is free for one year reading, problem-based and experiential learning and after graduation. case studies. Modules are assessed through a range of coursework, including essays, reports, presentations and Meet the In addition, this BSc (Hons) course, when taken with the course group work. There are timed examinations at the end marketing electives, has been approved and accredited by manager of each year. The Research Project is an integral part of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) to provide direct the course. Completed in your third year, it provides the Find out more entry onto the CIM’s Professional Diploma in Marketing. about Federico Topolansky’s opportunity to study in-depth a subject of specific interest or experience and expertise. of direct relevance to your future employment. www.rau.ac.uk/FedericoTopolansky Find out more www.rau. ac.uk/ ug-ibmfa 75

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You will complete a 20-week work placement in your If you wish to undertake an extended period of work second year, relevant to your interests and aspirations. placement you may interrupt your studies to undertake a 12 or 18 month work placement. Modules Year one Year two Year three

– The Business Environment – International Agribusiness Marketing – Making Management Decisions – Communication and Information – Omni Channel Business – Ethical Leadership in Global Organisations – Entrepreneur in Action – Management and Organisation: – Food and Agribusiness Strategies – Human Resources in Context Critical Perspectives in Global Food – International Agri-Food Issues – Fundamentals of Marketing and – Financial Management – Research Project Retailing – Work Placement Incorporating Plus TWO elective modules, selected from: – Business Finance Personal and Professional – Critical Issues in Organisations – Operations Management – The Business of Food Development Planning – Marketing Communication – Consumer Behaviour – Personal and Professional – Researching Business, Management – Strategic Human Resource – Entrepreneurship Development Planning and Entrepreneurship Management – Wine Industry – Principles of Business and Company – Entrepreneurship, Intrapreneurship – Corporate Finance – Rural Business Diversification Law in the UK and Enterprise Development – Management Accounting – Agricultural Marketing Course modules are subject to change. The most up-to-date course details can be found at www.rau.ac.uk

“Attending the RAU is the best decision I have made to date and has got me to where I am today.”

Name: Harriet Pullen Course: BSc (Hons) International Business Management (Food and Agribusiness) Career: Marketing Officer

and Agribusiness) course, I grew in both RAU, which was a great experience. Since confidence and ability, made life-long friends leaving, I have begun employment within The Royal Agricultural University was my and gained a good degree. The small class the marketing department at Agrii, using top choice of university, having heard of sizes mean that the lecturers know everyone my knowledge and many life skills learnt at its reputation from friends and graduates. personally, which greatly enhances the Cirencester. Attending the RAU was without a I wanted to experience student life in learning experience. doubt the best decision I have made to date a rural setting and benefit from a high and has got me to where I am today. standard of teaching. During the BSc (Hons) Upon graduation, I decided to further my International Business Management (Food education with a Masters degree at the 76 FdSc Business and Enterprise UCAS code: 328B

As the business world becomes increasingly competitive, valuable, hands-on business experience. The course will UCAS code: 328B entrepreneurial spirit and a firm grounding in the nature of be assessed through a wide range of techniques including Full-time or part-time enterprise are in high demand. Our foundation business research projects, examinations, case studies, business course will set you up to meet that demand, whether you plans, portfolios, presentations and practical skills. Course manager aspire to set up your own business, lead an organisation to Dr Carol Zhang Work placement email success or excel as part of a strong team. [email protected] You’ll complete a period of compulsory work experience This course provides you with the education, knowledge during the summer holiday between your first and second Entry requirements and skills necessary to gain employment in a range of year. This will allow you to put the knowledge and skills UCAS points 56 businesses or to run your own business. You’ll explore that you have gained in the first year in to practice in the A Level CD (minimum one A2 Level core business disciplines alongside the dynamic nature of workplace. pass) enterprise and develop a practical and theoretically strong BTEC MPP foundation on which to start and run your own business or GCSE English and Mathematics work effectively as an employee. Grade C are required (Grade 4 for new GCSEs) Career prospects

Please see page 104 for full Our graduates will be well prepared to start and run their details. own enterprise, or work for an existing business as: • Business • Human Resource Development Manager Manager • Enterprise Partner • Marketing Manager Meet the course Course structure manager The course has been designed with our partners at Find out more Cirencester College, utilising the expertise and resources of about Carol Zhang’s experience and expertise. both institutions. www.rau.ac.uk/CarolZhang The core modules are studied in the first year, with teaching emphasis on practical and work-related situations. Once you’ve successfully completed the first year of the course, you’ll progress onto the second year where you’ll develop Find broader business and management skills. out more www.rau. The experiential nature of this course means that you ac.uk/ will be given a high level of practical, real-life experience. ug-be There will be many opportunities to engage with individual entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial businesses and gain 77

“The lecturers on my course are passionate and extremely helpful, they have provided me with plenty of support and equipped me with the tools to either start my own Modules business or work for an existing business once I have graduated.” Year one

– Personal and Professional Development Name: Sophie Marland – Being Enterprising Course: FdSc Business and Enterprise – Work Placement Career: Student – Foundations of Marketing I chose to study at the Royal There is a great team spirit on the – Managing Operations Agricultural University having heard course which reflects the community – Management and Leadership 1 of its great history and reputation. atmosphere at the RAU. Studying here – Managing People The lecturers on my course are has enabled me to grow academically – Introduction to Business Finance passionate and extremely helpful, as well as personally and I have made Year two they have provided me with plenty of lifelong friends. I have enjoyed studying – Enterprise in Action support and equipped me with the at the RAU so much that I plan to stay – Research Project tools to either start my own business for a third year to top up to BSc (Hons) – E-commerce and Social Media or work for an existing business once in International Business Management. – Current Issues in Business and Enterprise I have graduated. The work placement I would highly recommend this course – Management and Leadership 2 allowed me to gain experience, using at the RAU to anyone interested in – Managing Finance the knowledge from my first year business. – Managing Marketing to work in a business environment. – Business Planning

Course modules are subject to change. The most up-to-date course details can be found at www.rau.ac.uk Progression opportunities

The course prepares you for further education in business and enterprise. Upon successful completion of the foundation degree, you’ll have the opportunity to progress on to the final year of the BSc (Hons) International Business Management course at the RAU. Progression opportunities will also be available to appropriate honours conversion programmes at other Higher Education institutions in the UK. 78

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Equine Management and Science 79

Q. How do I get a career in equine science or become a business manager and entrepreneur?

With around 100 equine degrees in sporting venues, including Cheltenham the UK, why should you choose RAU? Racecourse and Badminton Horse After 25 years of experience we have Trials. Due to our close links with discovered that a mixed approach equine enterprises, students gain a to education produces the most first-hand appreciation of the business employable and dynamic graduates. dimensions and the day-to-day As such, our courses deliver a blend running of equestrian sporting events. of equine science and business Our courses are delivered by a team along with agriculture based subject of research active and industry matter. In place of practical modules linked staff with decades of teaching in equitation and horse management, experience between them. Members we deliver transferable skills in science of the equine team publish their work and business and a 20-week industry in internationally renowned journals work placement. This will better equip and we enjoy industry derived research our students for managerial positions sponsorship from companies such as A. at feed companies such as Dengie, Haygain, Natural Animal Feeds and Royal bloodstock and equestrian accountants SoLab. Overall, the Royal Agricultural including Smith and Williamson University offers a unique learning Agricultural and laboratories such as Plusvital ecosystem which will support and University Equinome. Based in the Cotswolds, nurture your career aspirations in the Cirencester the RAU is ideally positioned to take global equine sector. full advantage of world-leading Know how 80 BSc (Hons) Applied Equine Science and Business The equine industry generates huge amounts of revenue Course structure UCAS code: L5BB for some of the world’s major economies, which are The course will be delivered through a series of lectures, increasingly on the lookout for bright, skilled employees. Full-time or part-time tutorials, case studies, directed reading, laboratory practical The practical and academic knowledge base that you build Course manager exercises, demonstrations and visits. up with us on our equine science and business degree will Simon Daniels Modules are assessed through a range of methods, email enable you to grasp the growing number of opportunities [email protected] available. including essays, group work tasks and individual presentations. There are timed examinations at the end of Entry requirements Those equine business opportunities are open to you as each semester. UCAS points 96 soon as you start, thanks to a work placement that will see A Level CCC (minimum two A2 you tap into our unrivalled network of industry contacts The Research Project is an integral part of the course, the Level passes) one science subject to gain transferable business skills to complement your successful completion of which leads to the BSc (Hons) is desirable. studies. You’ll be joining an active research community classification. It provides essential experience in the BTEC MMM specialising in nutrition and behavioural science. As such design and execution of a research project focussing on GCSE English and Mathematics you could also see your Research Project featured in one either science or business subject matter, with a view to Grade C are required (Grade 4 for of the many prestigious academic journals that regularly publication of any significant findings. new GCSEs) publish our students’ work. Work placement Please see page 104 for full Career prospects You’ll complete a 20-week work placement in the second details. year of the course, which enhances and develops key Our students have been entering responsible scientific and transferable skills. If you wish to undertake an extended managerial positions in the equine industry for more than period of work placement you may interrupt your studies to two decades, in companies including: undertake a 12 or 18 month work placement. In conjunction Meet the course • Haygain • Tattersalls with University staff, students are encouraged to organise • Dengie Horse Feeds • Blair Castle manager placements that extend their current skill set and align with • Newbury Horse Trials career goals. This is an excellent opportunity to develop a Find out more Racecourse • Plusvital Equinome about Simon Daniels’ • Highclere Castle • Weatherbys range of links within the growing equine industry. experience and expertise. • Natural Animal • National Trainers www.rau.ac.uk/SimonDaniels Feeds Federation Fulfilling a wide range of roles: • Event Manager • Technical Sales Find • Lecturer Representative out more • Stud Manager • Brand Manager www.rau. • Research Scientist ac.uk/ • Trainer ug-aesb 81

Modules “My aim in life is to improve farm animal Year one welfare through – Equine Evolutionary Anatomy changes in legislation and education using – Nutritional Biochemistry and scientific research.” Feeding – Business Environment – Equine Bioveterinary Science 1 Name: Justine Pearce – Breeding and Genetics Course: BSc (Hons) Applied Equine – Equine Industry Science and Business Having a love of both horses and – Personal Development Planning Career: PhD science from a young age, I wanted – Business Finance to study equine science. After visiting After graduating my lecturers helped numerous universities, I knew the RAU me find my next steps. I decided to take Year two was the place for me. a year out, before continuing my studies at the University of Exeter where I – Equine Business Finance and – Equine Research and Ethics Not only is Cirencester a wonderful completed an MSc in Animal Behaviour. Taxation – Equine Alternative and place to spend your university years, the – Rural Business Enterprise Complementary Therapies equine courses really prepare you for I’m now part of the London – Equine Grassland Management –w Equine La the industry. Although my main interest Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme – Equine Bioveterinary Science 2 – Work Placement is science, the course enabled me to where I hope to use artificial intelligence Year three take some business modules which to investigate locomotive behaviours in provided necessary transferable skills chickens and how they relate to welfare. – Equine Industry Developments – Research Project for both life in general and business. My aim in life is to improve farm animal – Advanced Equine Business – Advances in Equine Science welfare through changes in legislation Management – Negotiation in Business The RAU is small in size giving and education using scientific research. you much more contact time with Plus THREE elective modules, selected from a list including: experienced lecturers. This allows you – Equine Behaviour and Welfare – Equine Health to build a strong rapport with them – Equine Performance Nutrition – Equine Breeding Management which is important for the future. You’re – Agricultural and Equine Journalism – Advances in Training the Equine also able to ask questions, obtain – Equine Genetics Athlete help when necessary and build much – Rural Business Diversification – The Irish Bloodstock Industry (study stronger relationships with your peers. – Event Management tour additional fee applies) – Marketing Communication

Course modules are subject to change. The most up-to-date course details can be found at www.rau.ac.uk 82 BSc (Hons) Bloodstock and Performance Horse Management The racing industry is worth billions worldwide and relies on Career prospects UCAS code: W529 the scientific expertise and business acumen of a myriad Full-time or part-time of professionals. Stud managers, trainers, bloodstock Graduates are likely to go on to pursue a career as: agencies, feed companies and sports journalists all play • Bloodstock Agent • Stud Manager Course manager their part among many others, and so could you with a Ashley Ede • Nutritional Advisor • Sales Manager email qualification from the RAU. If you aspire to a career in • Racecourse • Trainer [email protected] the thoroughbred or sports horse industry, our specialist Manager • Technical Advisor • Equine Journalist Bloodstock and Performance Horse Management course Entry requirements will teach you all you need to know about training, breeding, UCAS points 96 Course structure racecourse and enterprise management. The knowledge A Level CCC (minimum two A2 The course will be delivered through lectures, seminars, you gain will be further enhanced by a work placement Level passes) one science subject visiting speakers and field trips. in a business of your choice and visits to leading racing is desirable. businesses in Newmarket and Ireland offer you a stepping Modules will be assessed through a range of methods BTEC MMM stone into the professional world. including examinations, reports, business plans, case GCSE English and Mathematics studies and presentations. Grade C are required (Grade 4 for Launched in 2016, this innovative course specialises in new GCSEs) the bloodstock industry, comparing science and business The Research Project is an integral part of the course, the practices to those within the sports horse industry. successful completion of which leads to the BSc (Hons) Please see page 104 for full You’ll study the business management aspects of a classification. It provides essential experience in the details. booming global bloodstock sector, address ethical issues design and execution of a research project focusing on facing racing and gain the skills and knowledge to pursue a either science or business subject matter, with a view to career within a wide range of racing and performance horse publication of any significant findings. related businesses. Meet the Work placement course manager You‘ll complete a 20-week work placement in your second year, relevant to your interests and aspirations. If you wish Find out more about Ashley Ede’s to undertake an extended period of work placement you experience and expertise. may interrupt your studies to undertake a 12 or 18 month www.rau.ac.uk/AshleyEde work placement. You may choose to link this to your final year elective modules or Research Project. Work experience helps you to develop key employability skills and gain Find invaluable industry contacts. out more www.rau. ac.uk/ ug-bphm 83

Modules “The course gave me a thorough overview of the Year one global racing and bloodstock – The Business Environment industry, vital for a career in the – Business Finance thoroughbred marketplace.” – Equine Industry – Personal Development Planning Name: Isabella Budge – Equine Evolutionary Anatomy Career: Sponsorship Manager – British Bloodstock Production – Breeding and Genetics From an early age I knew I wanted a career I graduated with a first class degree and – Equine Bioveterinary Science 1 in racing, the only question was which route started my career at the Racing Post, which Year two would provide the best education. over two years saw me travel to Ireland, – Equine Business Finance and Taxation The equine provision at the RAU ticked France, Dubai and Los Angeles. I now work – Soil and Grassland for Equestrian Use all the right boxes in terms of course at Newbury Racecourse and am responsible – Rural Business Enterprise content and offered the best networking for multi-million pound sponsorship deals. opportunities through their alumni and – Equine Research and Ethics The education and life learnings I gained industry contacts. – Global Bloodstock Industry from the RAU have helped me to achieve – Equine Nutrition and Training I gained a thorough overview of the global everything I have done to date and for years –w Equine La racing and bloodstock industry, as well to come. – Work Placement as equine business management Year three and breeding; vital for a career in the thoroughbred marketplace. The – Advances in Equine Science best element for me was the – Advances in Training the Equine Athlete 20-week work placement, – The Irish Bloodstock Industry which I divided between (study tour additional fee applies) Weatherbys, Cheveley – Equine Breeding Management Park Stud and the – Research Project French Bloodstock Plus TWO elective modules, selected from: Agency. Having – Equine Genetics experience of three different areas of the – Marketing Communication racing industry strengthened my CV and – Equine Behaviour and Welfare conveyed the ‘can do’ attitude required to – Equine Health succeed in racing. – Agricultural and Equine Journalism – Equine Performance Nutrition

Course modules are subject to change. The most up-to-date course details can be found at www.rau.ac.uk 84 BSc (Hons) International Equine and Agricultural Business Management With many of the world’s economies expanding their Fulfilling a wide range of roles: UCAS code: DN42 equine and agricultural industries, the opportunities for • Event Manager • Equine Journalist Full-time or part-time passionate, educated graduates reach far and wide. • Bloodstock Agent • Racehorse Trainer Our course in International Equine and Agricultural • Stud Manager • Race Day Staff Course manager • Farm Quality • Advertising Business Management gives you a platform to pursue Dr Andrew Hemmings Control Officer Account Manager email your aspirations. [email protected] Course structure The RAU’s world-renowned reputation in teaching and Entry requirements research means that not only are we extremely well The course will be delivered through a series of lectures, UCAS points 96 connected, we also have the facilities and the knowledge to seminars, tutorials, visiting lecturers, case studies, directed A Level CCC (minimum two A2 help you develop a thorough grounding in equine production reading, laboratory practical classes and demonstrations. Level passes) one science subject systems, agricultural management, equine science, This course features compulsory study tours to Northwest is desirable. marketing and finance. Our course will see you delve into Europe (two weeks) and the USA (two and a half weeks). An BTEC MMM the changing dynamics of the UK horse industry, as well additional course supplement of £3,500 will apply, although GCSE English and Mathematics as international equine business and science, covering study bursaries are available subject to availability and Grade C are required (Grade 4 for Northwest Europe, the USA, the Middle East, Latin America eligibility criteria: www.rau.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/ new GCSEs) and Asia. fees-and-funding/funding/equine-travel-bursaries A unique feature of the course rests in its international Modules are assessed through a range of methods, Please see page 104 for full dimension. Studies of the international equine industry including essays, reports, case studies and presentations. details. carried out in Northwest Europe and the USA are There are timed examinations at the end of each semester. complemented by contributions from internationally-reputed The Research Project is an integral part of the course, the visiting speakers from all areas of the equine industry. successful completion of which leads to the BSc (Hons) Meet the course Career prospects classification. It provides essential experience in the manager design and execution of a Research Project focusing on Our graduates have gone on to pursue careers within either science or business subject matter, with a view to Find out more publication of any significant findings. about Dr Andrew Hemming’s agriculture, equine and leisure related rural enterprises: experience and expertise. • Weatherbys • Volac International Work placement www.rau.ac.uk/AndrewHemmings • Haygain Dairy Nutrition • Newbury • Racing Post You’ll complete a 20-week work placement in your second Racecourse • National Trust Farms year, relevant to your interests and aspirations. If you wish • Highclere Castle • Middleham Park to undertake an extended period of work placement you Find Bloodstock • Juddmonte Stud may interrupt your studies to undertake a 12 or 18 month • Tattersalls • Mole Valley Farmers out more work placement. You may choose to link this to your final www.rau. • Blair Castle ac.uk/ Horse Trials year elective modules or Research Project. Work experience ug-ieabm • Horse and Hound helps you to develop key employability skills and gain invaluable industry contacts. 85

Modules

Year one Year two Year three

– Introduction to Food Production – Rural Business Enterprise – Emerging Agricultural Issues – Soil and Environmental Science – Equine Business Finance and – Negotiation in Business – Business Environment Taxation – International Equine Industry (includes study tours to Northwest Europe and – Livestock Science – Equine Research and Ethics the USA) – Equine Industry – International Agribusiness Marketing – Equine Industry Developments – British Bloodstock Production –w Equine La – Research Project – Equine Bioveterinary Science 1 – Farm Enterprise Management – Advanced Equine Business Management – Business Finance – Work Placement Plus TWO elective modules, selected from a list including: Plus ONE elective module, selected – Rural Business Diversification – Equine Health from: – Agricultural and Equine Journalism – Advanced Livestock Production – Equine Nutrition and Training – Equine Behaviour and Welfare – New Developments in Agricultural – Equine Bioveterinary Science 2 – Equine Performance Nutrition Science – Marketing Communications – Advances in Equine Science – Advances in Training the Equine Athlete Course modules are subject to change. The most up-to-date course details can “The University provides a be found at www.rau.ac.uk unique and dynamic setting which I would recommend to anyone and the teaching levels as well as varied courses are second to none.”

Name: Tom Blain Course: BSc (Hons) International Equine The support and knowledge I gained and Agricultural Business Management whilst at the Royal Agricultural Career: Stud Manager at the Barton Stud University was invaluable and has played a fundamental role in my of the equine world, an aspect which career as Stud Manager at Barton Stud. has proved hugely instrumental in The University provides a unique and my career. Furthermore, the people dynamic setting which I would recommend whom I met whilst at the University, to anyone and the teaching levels as well both lecturers and fellow students as varied courses are second to none. alike, have provided both vital support The International Equine and Agricultural and a wide associated client basis which Business Management course is particularly has been valuable. Each lecturer provides diverse and enabled me to gain further key information on current issues and are all knowledge and understanding into all areas experts within their associated fields. 86 BSc (Hons) Equine Studies (top-up)

If you’re looking for an equine studies course that offers Course structure UCAS code: D422 you the flexibility you need as you advance your scientific, You’ll study two core modules, and complete a Research management and entrepreneurial knowledge base in a Full-time or part-time Project. This is a chance to study a particular subject dynamic learning environment, this is the ideal solution. Course manager in-depth which may also be of direct relevance to your Dr Andrew Hemmings Coming from a Foundation Degree or HND background, particular career aspirations. email you’ll be able to tailor your studies to take in any number of [email protected] You’ll then select four elective modules which reflect your the equine industry’s fascinating aspects and offshoots into interests and career goals. Those with a science focus may Entry requirements the professional realm, including equine breeding, event choose from a range of modules in applied equine science, A foundation degree or a HND management and journalism. whilst those with business management interests can award (merit) in a related subject. Our one year top-up course is a reliable springboard to opt for modules which emphasise business skills. On the further research or employment in the equine industry with other hand students are free to pursue an approach which careers in equine media, consultancy or any number of includes a blend of both areas. avenues successfully pursued by our former graduates. The course will be delivered through a series of Meet the Should your studies inspire you to go further, you may lectures, seminars, group projects, visits and laboratory course decide to transition onto our research-based Master of manager demonstrations. Modules are assessed through a range Science by Research (MScR) programme. of techniques, including research projects, examinations, Find out more about Dr Andrew Hemming’s Career prospects presentations and case studies. experience and expertise. Our graduates go on to pursue a range of careers in the The Research Project is an integral part of the course, the www.rau.ac.uk/AndrewHemmings equine industries: successful completion of which leads to the BSc (Hons) • Stud Manager • Technical Sales classification. It provides essential experience in the • Equine Journalist Representative design and execution of a research project focussing on • Lecturer • Horse Sport either science or business subject matter, with a view to Administrator • Nutritionist publication of any significant findings. • Racecourse • Research Scientist Manager Overall, the global expansion of equine commerce has led to a diversity of employment options for both business and science-focussed students. Successful completion of the Find BSc (Hons) Equine Studies top-up can also lead on to our out more equine MScR programme. www.rau. ac.uk/ ug-es 87

“I enjoyed my BSc (Hons) top-up year so much that I enrolled for the MSc (Hons) Applied Modules Equine Science and furthered Core modules my education with relish.”

– Equine Health Name: Sandra Ireton – Equine Behaviour and Welfare Course: BSc (Hons) Equine Studies (top up) and – Research Project MSc (Hons) Applied Equine Science Plus FOUR elective modules, selected from a list Career: Lecturer and Course Manager including: – Agricultural and Equine Journalism If you’re looking at this prospectus I enjoyed my BSc (Hons) top-up year – Consumer Behaviour you‘ll be in a similar position to me so much that I enrolled for the MSc – Equine Breeding Management some years ago trying to decide where (Hons) Applied Equine Science and – Equine Genetics to complete your education. I chose furthered my education with relish. the RAU and I haven’t looked back – Equine Performance Nutrition After graduating I was so enthused by since. After completing my HND at a – Event Management the lecturing staff that I became one local college, I was looking to ‘top-up’ – Marketing Communications myself and currently work at Newton to degree level and the RAU offered – Rural Business Diversification Rigg College in Cumbria, most recently everything that I was looking for and – Advances in Training the Equine Athlete having set up a Level 4 Apprenticeship much more besides. As a more mature – Advances in Equine Science in Agricultural Business Management. student my focus was on the quality Course modules are subject to change. Seeing the first cohort receiving their of education alongside lecturers who The most up-to-date course details can be found at awards was one of the proudest were accessible when I needed help www.rau.ac.uk moments in my life. or more information and the RAU Life at the RAU is fab – you won’t delivered. A truly fabulous calendar regret it! of social events is also on offer on campus and in the wider community.

The lecturing staff are second to none and are active experts in their field which keeps things relevant and up-to- date. This is invaluable after graduation and ensures that you are ‘job ready’ when you leave Cirencester. 88

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Real Estate 89

Q.How do I balance property development with its impact on the countryside? The Royal Agricultural University has a long history and enviable reputation for education and training of the future leaders of the real estate profession. Employers have a high regard for our courses, evidenced by the excellent employability of our graduates who occupy leading positions within the real estate industry in the UK and overseas.

Our courses embrace the theories, methodologies and practice of urban and rural property investment, development and management. The BSc (Hons) Real Estate degree is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Most academic staff are fully qualified members of the RICS and hold teaching qualifications in higher education. Experts in their fields, they offer extensive A. professional and academic experience and a deep knowledge and understanding Royal of current issues, practice and policy in the sector. We also organise sessions Agricultural with high profile speakers, who are drawn from the University’s national and global network of real estate professionals. University Cirencester Know how 90 BSc (Hons) Real Estate

Singapore, Dubai, Brussels, Hong Kong and the UK, just Recent graduates have gone on to work within a wide range UCAS code: N210 some of the destinations where graduates of this course of companies and organisations in the UK and overseas: Full-time or part-time have gone onto work, and so could you. Whether you wish • Jones Lang LaSalle • Deloitte Real Estate to pursue a career in commercial, rural, residential or • Bruton Knowles • Hamptons Course manager industrial property, our Real Estate course will develop your • CBRE International Peter Smith, MRICS • Knight Frank • Savills email skills, networks and confidence. • Valuation Office [email protected] • Hartnell Taylor Cook Agency Accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors • Bidwells • NHS Property Entry requirements (RICS), this is the ideal launch pad into the professional • Dalcour Maclaren • Taylor Wimpey UCAS points 104 world of real estate. The course is almost unique in that • Marsh and Parsons • Network Rail A Level BCC (mainly from A Levels) it constitutes a general or mixed practice curriculum that • Cluttons • Aldi BTEC DMM covers rural as well as urban property issues throughout • Cushman and Wakefield • Whitmarsh Lockhart GCSE English and Mathematics all years of the programme. The broad nature of the • Newland Homes Grade C are required (Grade 4 for curriculum keeps your options open for future specialism The course equips students with the knowledge, new GCSEs) in areas that interest you most in your final year. You’ll understanding and skills to practice within the following A period of practical experience learn about acquisition, sales, letting, development and sectors: is recommended but not a management of property interests and investments, town • Valuation surveying • Town and country requirement. and country planning and building construction. Alongside • Property investment planning and this, you’ll develop an understanding of the history of and asset development Please see page 104 for full vernacular architecture and the psychology of sales, letting management • Commercial and details. and negotiation, ensuring you have the full set of skills • Rural agency and residential property management sought by prospective employers in professional practice. estate management Accredited by the Royal • Real estate taxation; Institution of Chartered • Estate agency; residential and business rates Surveyors Career prospects commercial and council tax • Land buying On completing the course, many of our graduates secure within the house employment undertaking the two-year RICS Assessment building industry Meet the of Professional Competence (APC) in order to qualify as course Course structure manager Chartered Surveyors. The course will be delivered through a series of lectures, Find out more smaller group tutorials, interactive learning sessions, visiting about Peter Smith’s lecturers from professional real estate practice, practical experience and expertise. Find sessions, study visits and real life case studies involving www.rau.ac.uk/PeterSmith out more properties made available by property owners and chartered www.rau. surveyors in practice. You’ll study eight modules each year, ac.uk/ which are divided into three streams: Property, Land Use ug-re and Development and Business. As you progresses to the third year core modules increasingly overlap and integrate. 91 Modules are assessed through a blend of coursework and seen and unseen examinations, although some modules Modules are assessed solely on coursework. Assignments set are Year one Year two often based on case studies which help you to see the – Valuation 1 – Valuation 2 practical application of the subjects you’re studying. In your – Law 1 – Law 2 third year you’ll complete a Research Project in a subject – Building Technology – Building Management area of specific interest or relevance to your future career. – Property Transactions – Property Agency The course is flexible, such that we allow students to – Surveying – Property Market Analysis transfer from the Rural Land Management degree onto the – Introduction to Property Economics – Property Management Real Estate degree, and vice versa, at the end of the first – Professional Practice – Planning and Development year, and occasionally, at the end of the second year. – Business Finance – Business and Property Finance and Taxation A part-time or distance learning route to study is available. Year three

Work experience – Research Project – Integrating Project In your first and second years, you’re encouraged to – Property Investment Finance and Valuation – Practice Management complete work experience during the holidays. – Contemporary Issues in Property and Society

Although not a formal part of the course, at the end of Plus TWO elective modules, selected from: your second year you’ll have the option to undertake a – Advanced Residential Agency – Marketing Communication work placement year, before returning to complete your – Commercial Property Management – Rural Business Diversification studies in the third year. However, if you decide to take up – Corporate Finance – Management Accounting this option you’ll be responsible for organising your own – Heritage Property – Consumer Behaviour placement. This placement year option might count towards – Entrepreneurship – Game and Deer Management the first year of your RICS Assessment of Professional Course modules are subject to change. The most up-to-date course details can be found at www.rau.ac.uk Competence.

Name: Sophie Sismanovic “I am now a trainee graduate surveyor in professional Course: BSc (Hons) Real Estate practice, and the foundations learnt from the RAU proved Career: Graduate Surveyor invaluable throughout my graduate programme.”

The University has a current and up-to-date information direct from Developments. The speakers allowed students prestigious reputation within the real estate professionals of today, with most to gain an insight into the opportunities within the industry and also provides staff currently practicing within the industry. the property industry hearing first hand from the connections worldwide which really The modules I studied at the RAU gave me a professionals. Upon graduating in 2017, I was appealed to me. wide breadth of knowledge, allowing for a awarded the Dent Silver Trophy for the Greatest

Cirencester is a fantastic place to both live and range of opportunities. Contribution to the Life of the University. I’m study. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the RAU Whilst at the RAU, I was heavily involved in the now working as a Graduate Surveyor in Leeds from attending lectures and site visits not only Real Estate Society. During my year within the within the Savills development team undertaking locally but internationally too. The support from role of Co-Chair, I hosted a number of guest valuations for residential development purposes. the lecturers could not have been better, from day speakers within the property industry from a wide I plan to complete my Assessment of Professional one each student is given a personal tutor, who range of pathways. Guests included, Ken Jones Competence (APC) within two years, to then is always happy to help you no matter what the from the Crown Estate, Mike Strong from NHS become a qualified Chartered Surveyor with the problem is. Students are provided with the most Property Services and Toby Baines, from Citygrove hope to progress within the company. 92 Diploma Real Estate Valuation

If you’re already working in private practice or the public Course structure Part-time or distance sector, this part-time vocational property valuation course learning This part-time course is delivered by blended learning; a will take you to the next level, empowering you with the combination of teaching on-campus, access to a virtual Course manager skills and insights that industry professionals respect. John Hockey, FRICS, IRRV learning centre with a range of teaching materials, and a email You’ll delve into all key aspects of the market, covering vast electronic library. [email protected] commercial, residential, industrial, retail, leisure and Each year involves the study of four modules, which recreational property. Teaching and learning will focus on To apply: equates to 600 study hours. Campus-based teaching the valuation, acquisition, sale, letting, development and [email protected] comprises two blocks of two days for each set of four management of property interests and the relevant law and Entry requirements modules. There will be regular contact with module leaders practice underpinning these functions. UCAS points 80 and a dedicated personal tutor. Accredited by the Institute of Revenues, Rating and A Level CDD (minimum three A2 The normal time taken to complete the course on a part- Valuation (IRRV), our Diploma in Real Estate Valuation Level passes) time basis is four years, maximum six years (16 modules). BTEC MMP is a unique opportunity to bolster your credentials by The course will be delivered through group and individual GCSE English and Mathematics transitioning into the IRRV Diploma membership. presentations, student-led seminars, case studies, Grade C are required (Grade 4 for The course is delivered by block blended delivery. experiential learning, role play and business simulations. new GCSEs) Modules are assessed through case study analysis, written Applicants working within the Career prospects coursework and examinations. Guest speakers from property profession will be Students who undertake this course as part of their industry and professional bodies provide a valuable insight, considered on the basis of both personal and professional development will be better as well as regular networking opportunities. academic qualifications and equipped to undertake more challenging work. The course experience in the workplace. encompasses valuation, business skills, law, finance, IT, Please see page 104 for full economics and management, delivering the knowledge details. and skills expected within a wide range of organisations. Nationally and internationally recognised firms, practices Accredited by the Institute and bodies regularly recruit from our courses. of Revenues, Rating and Valuation

Meet the course Find manager out more Find out more www.rau. about John Hockey’s experience and expertise. ac.uk/ ug-rev www.rau.ac.uk/JohnHockey 93

“The learning experience has been a fantastic journey with exceptional teaching, guidance and online learning resources.” Modules Name: Edward Doran Certificate of Higher Education (Level 4) Course: Diploma Real Estate Valuation – Real Estate Environment Career: Valuation Caseworker for the – Building Technology Valuation Office Agency – Law 1 – Valuation 1 Working for a government department I The learning experience has been – Surveying have been very fortunate to have been a fantastic journey with exceptional – Introduction to Property Economics sponsored to undertake a distance teaching, guidance and online learning – Business Finance for Real Estate learning course through the RAU. This resources. I‘m proud of what I have – Property Transactions has provided me with a professional achieved with the help of the RAU Diploma of Higher Education in qualification that has allowed me and will always look back on my time Real Estate Valuation (Level 5) to progress within the organisation fondly. whilst having the knowledge that my – Building Management As a learning institution, I would have qualification and where it was obtained – Law 2 to say that you can’t go wrong with is highly respected by others in the – Planning and Development the RAU. wider profession. – Valuation 2 – Real Estate Business and Finance The level of teaching whilst visiting – Property Market Analysis the campus and the distance learning – Property Management element of the course allowed for a – Statutory Valuation well-structured, innovative, informative and rewarding experience. This is Course modules are subject to change. due to the high levels of expertise, The most up-to-date course details can be found at knowledge and the overall quality of www.rau.ac.uk the teaching staff. 94

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Rural Land Management 95

Q. How do I ensure the preservation of the natural landscape, rural property and communities? The Royal Agricultural University has a Surveyors has its roots in the long history and enviable reputation as accreditation of our course since the a supplier of education and training of 1930s. We are proud of the substantial rural land and property professionals. contribution made to the development The ways in which the rural, of the global surveying profession by agricultural, residential, commercial our alumni and staff. and leisure elements of land and the Employers have a high regard for our associated property are managed has course, evidenced by the excellent a major impact on the quality of our employability record of our graduates. lives and the environment, as pressure You’ll benefit directly from the close of demand on land use intensifies at association with employers and the both global and local levels. rural land management profession. A. Our course embraces the theories, Whether your interest is in a career Royal methodologies and practice of rural managing traditional rural estates, land management, providing you buying and selling country houses, Agricultural with a clear understanding of the residential agency, commercial University multi-functionality of land in the UK. property, or providing valuation and Cirencester The partnership between the University technical advice, our degree course and the Royal Institution of Chartered will provide you with a firm foundation. Know how 96 BSc (Hons) Rural Land Management This highly regarded course offers you a proven route to Recent graduates have gone on to work within a range of UCAS code: N231 rewarding careers within the management of land, property companies including: Full-time or part-time and business in the countryside. • Strutt and Parker • Savills • Carter Jonas • Knight Frank To prepare you effectively, a wide range of subjects Course manager • Bruton Knowles • Bidwells Sam Parkes, MRICS is covered. An understanding of agriculture and farm • Brown and Co • Dalcour Maclaren email management is fundamental to rural professional practice, [email protected] • Valuation Office • Fisher German alongside the core property subjects of law, valuation, Agency Entry requirements building construction and management, planning and Fulfilling a variety of job roles: 104 development. You’ll develop an essential understanding UCAS points • Land Agent • Valuer A Level BCC (minimum three A2 of wider business management to enable you to • Chartered Surveyor • Estate Manager Level passes) provide effective advice about farm, estate and other • Land and • Auctioneer BTEC DMM rural businesses in practice, whilst gaining an overall Property Agent • Civil Servant GCSE English and Mathematics understanding of the multi-functionality of land. Course structure Grade C are required (Grade 4 for new GCSEs) Career prospects The course will be delivered through a series of lectures, A period of practical experience is seminars, group tutorials, practical sessions and visits to Our graduates typically enter employment in rural practice highly recommended. local farms, commercial properties and rural estates. surveying, undertaking the two-year RICS Assessment of You‘ll study eight modules each year across a wide variety Please see page 104 for full Professional Competence (APC) within national, regional of subjects. These are developed and integrated as you details. and local firms, private estates, county farm estates and large landowners to qualify as Chartered Surveyors. Many progress and prepare you for professional practice. Accredited by the Royal also go on to become members of the Central Association Institution of Chartered Modules are assessed through a range of coursework, Surveyors of Agricultural Valuers (CAAV). often based on real-life case studies and sponsored by land management firms, which help you to see the practical application of the subjects you’re studying. The case study material becomes more challenging throughout the Meet the course Find course, culminating in the third year case studies which are manager out more supplied by practising surveyors from their own portfolios of work. Find out more www.rau. about Sam Parkes’ ac.uk/ The Research Project is an integral part of the course. experience and expertise. ug-rlm Completed in your third year, it provides the opportunity www.rau.ac.uk/SamParkes to study in-depth a subject of specific interest or of direct relevance to your future employment. 97

Internships and placements

In your first and second year, you’re encouraged to complete work If you wish to undertake an extended period of work placement you may experience placements and internships during the holidays. Practical interrupt your studies to undertake a 12 or 18 month work placement. experience is invaluable for developing a network of industry contacts This could involve working in rural land management with your time whilst gaining an understanding of the diverse nature of professional counting towards the required relevant experience and structured work. Many national and local firms offer paid summer internships. training for the two-year RICS Assessment of Professional Competence, or you may wish to undertake a placement of your choice. Modules

Year one Year two Year three

– Valuation 1 – Valuation 2 – Research Project – Law 1 – Law 2 – Agricultural Law and Valuation – Building Technology – Rural Buildings – Contemporary Issues in Rural Land Management – Landscape Management and – Planning and Development – Estate Management Surveying – Rural Property Finance and Taxation – Rural Professional Practice – Agriculture for Land Management – Farm Business Management Plus TWO elective modules, selected from: – Rural Land Use – Rural Practice Management – Rural Business Diversification – Advanced Residential Agency – Professional Practice – Environmental Management – Heritage Property – Corporate Finance – Business Finance – Commercial Property Management – Marketing Communication – Game and Deer Management – Consumer Behaviour – Forestry and Woodland – Wine Industry Management – Integrated Organic Systems – Agricultural and Equine Journalism “The practical nature of the course meant Course modules are subject to change. that I was able to apply what I had learnt and quickly gain more responsibility.” The most up-to-date course details can be found at www.rau.ac.uk

Name: Grace Reed Course: BSc (Hons) Rural Land Management Career: Student

On the Rural Land Management course, we departments such as rural consultancy, the first day I was involved with valuation don’t have compulsory placements; instead country house sales and professional reports, tenancy agreements and agricultural we’re advised to find work experience over services. Having decided that I was most law. The practical nature of the course meant the holidays to get to know local firms and interested in rural consultancy, I spent that I was able to apply what I had learnt think more about departments in which we 10 weeks working at a regional firm last and quickly gain more responsibility. I really might like to work. In my first and second summer. The placement was paid and most enjoyed my placement and will be applying year holidays, I spent a couple of days at importantly allowed me to undertake work for a job at the firm this year. several firms, and shadowed agents in which directly linked into the course; from 98 Partner colleges In addition to the Foundation degrees and Bachelor degrees available to study at the RAU, the University validates a number of courses at partner colleges. Askham Bryan College Berkshire College of Bishop Burton College Agriculture Askham Bryan College was Bishop Burton College prides itself • FdSc Business Management for the established more than 65 years ago Berkshire College of Agriculture (BCA) on being one of the country’s finest Equine Industry and has an excellent reputation for students can expect an outstanding land-based colleges, holding Centre • FdSc Equine Sports Science and the high quality of its land-based level of commitment and support. of Vocational Excellence status in Coaching education and its veterinary nursing As a land-based centre for research both agriculture and equine. Bishop • FdSc Equine Therapy and programmes. The teaching staff have and education for over 70 years, their Burton offer a range of further and Rehabilitation a wealth of experience in the land- programmes reflect their heritage and higher education courses, as well • BSc (Hons) Agricultural Resource based industries and strong links with our subject-specific expertise. Set in as apprenticeships and work-based Management (top-up) employers. The main campus at York 400 acres of beautiful countryside, learning opportunities. • BSc (Hons) Business Management BCA’s campus is fully equipped with for the Equine Industry is easily accessible, located just a few • FdSc Agriculture modern teaching facilities, an excellent • BSc (Hons) Equine Science miles outside of York city and close to • FdSc Agriculture (Farm Business Equestrian Centre, and the outstanding • BSc (Hons) Equine Therapy and major road and rail networks. Administration) BIAZA accredited Animal Management Rehabilitation • FdSc Veterinary Health Studies • FdSc Agriculture (Precision Crop Centres. • BSc (Hons) Equine Sports Science • FdSc Veterinary Nursing Technology) and Coaching • BSc (Hons) Veterinary Health • FdSc Animal Behaviour and Welfare • FdSc Agriculture (Precision • FdSc Agrifood Health and Nutrition Studies (Top-up) • FdSc Equine Entrepreneurship and Livestock Farming) (subject to validation) • BSc (Hons) Veterinary Nursing Business Management • BSc (Hons) Equine Health and (Top-up) • BSc (Hons) Veterinary Physiotherapy Nutrition (subject to validation) Capel Manor College

Capel Manor College is London’s • FdSc Garden Design and largest land-based college, combining Plantsmanship academic excellence with practical • FdSc Urban Green Space skills. Capel students have the Management Askham Bryan College Berkshire College of Agriculture opportunity to gain an internationally • FdSc Animal Management and recognised qualification, with the Zoology prospect of progressing on to further • BSc (Hons) Animal Management study or employment. Discover a world (Top-up) (subject to validation) of exciting career opportunities in their outdoor classrooms. 99

Find out more www.rau.ac.uk/ partnercolleges

Cirencester College Kingston Maurward College Wiltshire College Lackham

Cirencester College is proud to be Since becoming a College in 1947 With its beautiful landscape and working in partnership with the Royal Kingston Maurward has created strong picturesque surroundings, Lackham Agricultural University in developing links with both rural and business campus offers the perfect backdrop an exciting range of Foundation sectors to add relevance to its for land-based study. With access to degrees and Top-Up programmes. teaching. Its suite of specialised Higher mixed woodlands, an animal centre, As one of only three designated Education programmes have been zoological garden and fully operational specialist Sixth Form Colleges in the developed in collaboration with key farm, students will benefit from South West, the College’s reputation partners. Tutors use the college’s 750 studying in an environment which fully for excellent teaching, learning, acre estate, working farm and state- supports practical learning for land- innovation and student support is of-the-art animal science, agritech, based studies. On-site accommodation outstanding, producing consistently horticulture and equine facilities to is supported by excellent facilities, high achievement rates and making it provide engaging teaching to students, both academic and social. Their one of the highest performing colleges as well as the beautiful Dorset communal areas such as the student in the country. The programmes landscape and Jurassic Coast. restaurant and common rooms provide offered through the partnership are • FdSc Animal Behaviour and Welfare welcoming areas in which to relax. mainly delivered on the RAU campus • FdSc Countryside and Coastal • FdSc Animal Science and and include: Conservation Management • FdSc Environmental Conservation • BSc (Hons) Animal Behaviour and • BSc (Hons) Animal Science and and Heritage Management Welfare (top-up) Management (Top-up) • FdSc British Wildlife Conservation • FdSc Agricultural Science (subject • FdSc Business and Entrepreneurship to validation) • FdSc Animal Science (subject to validation)

Wiltshire College Lackham campus 100

Fees and funding 101

Course fees Course specific costs RAU skills bursaries - RAU Cirencester Scholarship - up to £3,000 per year fee waiver Royal Agricultural University tuition BSc (Hons) International Equine and The University encourages all (maximum three years) fees for 2019 entry are: Agricultural Business Management undergraduate students to make - RAU Outstanding Achievers has a supplement of £3,500 for the applications for awards from our £9,250 per annum for UK / EU Scholarship - up to £2,000 per year international study visits, normally fund, created to enable students to students (maximum three years) charged at £1,750 at the beginning of enrol on skills-based courses at our £10,000 per annum for non UK / EU - RAU Sports Scholarships - up to year two and year three. The University Rural Innovation Centre at Harnhill students £3,000 per year (maximum three offers 10 travel bursaries of £3,500 Manor Farm and other locations. years) These fees relate to new to cover all travel and accommodation Qualifications obtained from these - Sir Emrys Jones Scholarship - undergraduate students starting on costs (excluding sustenance) of the practical courses can make a valuable £1,500 for one academic year full-time taught courses in 2019. two compulsory study tours, for eligible contribution to future employment - The Vice-Chancellor’s Overseas students. prospects. Please note these fees are subject to Excellence Scholarships - up to change in future years. BSc (Hons) Bloodstock and RAU scholarships £1,000 for one academic year Performance Horse Management has - Walter Smith Award - £2,000 per The RAU offers scholarships, awards an additional course cost of £575 at year (maximum three years) and bursaries to assist those students the beginning of year three for the Irish in need of support which may enable Bloodstock Industry study tour. them to achieve their full potential. The RAU also offer a package of For the Diploma Real Estate Valuation The range of support available support for eligible students.* course the cost of each module is encompasses merit based, academic - Reimbursement of transportation to £920, with registration and payment excellence and means tested awards. the RAU for an open day, applicant required for each set of four modules Full scholarship details can be found day or personalised visit before you at the start of each intake. on the University’s website, together start - up to £700 If the elective Ecology Study Tour with the online application and - Travel allowance - up to £1,000 per is selected, there will be a student reference forms. year contribution of up to £1,000 and - Living support allowance to cover The RAU currently offers the following an institutional contribution of up to costs such as food, social activities, scholarships.* £1,000. course materials etc. - £1,500 per - University Core Bursary - £1,000 year per year (maximum three years) *scholarships are subject to change, for the - RAU Support Bursary - £1,000 per most up-to-date information please visit www. year (maximum three years) rau.ac.uk/ug-scholarships - Equine Travel Bursary - £3,500 to Find cover two study trips (excluding out more subsistence) www.rau.ac.uk/ - Emmott Foundation Scholarship - ug-scholarships £3,000 per year (maximum three years) - FE Turner Award - £1,500 per year (maximum three years) 102 Admissions

We have an active policy of equal opportunity Conditions of entry in the recruitment of students and staff The qualifications to join the University’s degree and seek applicants from urban as well as courses vary. They are detailed on each course rural backgrounds and from all cultures and page of this prospectus and on page 104. faiths. We welcome students with disabilities and endeavour to make all reasonable The RAU welcomes applicants with vocational, as adjustments to ensure equal access to well as academic, entry qualifications. Applicants Higher Education. studying non-traditional academic qualifications, such as access to Higher Education programmes, Please notify us on the UCAS form or contact us are advised to contact the Admissions Office for in advance to discuss your needs. entry requirements for each course. The application procedure RAU Applicant Days Applications for all full-time courses must be Applicants who receive an offer from the RAU, or made through the UCAS system. Applications those who are requested to attend an interview, are submitted online. Applicants should register will be invited to attend an RAU Applicant Day. with UCAS and submit an online application form These events are a great opportunity to get a feel via UCAS for life at the RAU. You’ll find out more about your www.ucas.com/ucas/undergraduate/ucas- chosen course through sample lectures, group undergraduate-apply-and-track. activities and visits and get all the information Forms may be obtained from UCAS, PO Box you need about student finance, future careers, 28, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 3ZA, accommodation, sports and the Student Union. England. Applicant Days will be held in the spring term to For help with your application, please contact the help you make your final decision about firm and RAU Admissions Office. insurance university choices. Courses are subject to review or modification by the University’s Academic Board. All courses and individual modules are offered subject to acceptable minimum numbers of students and Contact availability of staff. admissions@ Applicants can apply for one or more courses on rau.ac.uk the application form. 103

Interviews standards or work experience. The conditions are usually the attainment of at least the minimum Borderline applicants living in the UK may be academic standards. invited to attend an interview before a place is offered. For candidates resident outside the UK and EU, conditions of entry are comparable to UK Candidates from overseas residents and British candidates. Overseas applicants are not required to attend Disabled Persons Policy prior to the start of their course, but are welcome to arrange an appointment to visit the RAU should The University is committed to achieving equal they be in the UK before their course starts. opportunities for all of its students and actively encourages potential students who may be For overseas qualifications, the Admissions disabled or have specific learning needs to apply. Office will refer to the UK National Recognition Information Centre for equivalent qualifications. Please see page 39 for more information. Applicants must be competent in the English Part-time attendance language and all courses require GCSE English at Grade C or above (Grade 4 for new GCSEs), The majority of our full-time courses are available or an equivalent qualification. International on a part-time basis. Applicants wishing to students for whom English is not their first study a course part-time must apply directly to language must provide evidence of English the RAU. Please contact the Admissions Office language competence according to the course to discuss your requirements and obtain an they apply for. application form.

Overseas students not based in the UK are Joining instructions advised not to travel until the Finance Office has All applicants will have access to My confirmed receipt of payment and all necessary RAU, containing details about induction, visas are in place. accommodation and finance, as well as joining Find Offer of place instructions. Regular updates will be posted out more during the months leading up to registration. www.rau.ac.uk/ Upon receipt of all necessary documentation, Most courses start teaching on the first Monday ug-apply acceptable candidates are sent an offer of a in October, with registration and induction place on one or more courses. Formal offers of activities taking place at the end of September. places are forwarded by UCAS. This offer will be unconditional if they already fulfil the entry requirements or conditional on specific academic

Every effort is made to ensure that the information in this publication is accurate at the time of going to press. The University reserves the right to make alterations to any of the matters contained within the prospectus, both before and after a student’s admission to the University. The University will communicate to applicants if substantial changes are made to the advertised programmes however, we ask applicants to always check the most up-to-date information via the RAU website www.rau.ac.uk Acknowledgements: Thank you to all the students who gave permission for us to publish their photographs in this prospectus. 104 Entry requirements UCAS Scottish Irish Leaving IB Course points A Level BTEC Highers Certificate* Diploma

AGRICULTURE

BCC BCCCC or BSc (Hons) Agriculture 104 (Minimum three A2 passes) DMM BCCCC 2H4 + 3H3 26 BCC BCCCC or BSc (Hons) Applied Farm Management 104 (Minimum three A2 passes) DMM BCCCC 2H4 + 3H3 26 CD CCC or FdSc Agriculture and Farm Management 56 (Minimum one A2 pass) MPP CCC 2H4 + 1H3 24 CD CCC or FdSc Animal Science 56 (Minimum one A2 pass) MPP CCC 2H4 + 1H3 24

FOOD SUPPLY AND MANAGEMENT

BCC BCCCC or BSc (Hons) Food Production and Supply Management 104 (Minimum three A2 passes) DMM BCCCC 2H4 + 3H3 26

ENVIRONMENT

CD CCC or FdSc British Wildlife Conservation 56 (Minimum one A2 pass) MPP CCC 2H4 + 1H3 24 CD CCC or FdSc Environmental Conservation and Heritage Management 56 (Minimum one A2 pass) MPP CCC 2H4 + 1H3 24

BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISE

CCC CCCCC or BSc (Hons) International Business Management 96 (Minimum two A2 passes) MMM CCCCC 3H4 + 2H3 26 CCC CCCCC or BSc (Hons) International Business Management (Food and Agribusiness) 96 (Minimum two A2 passes) MMM CCCCC 3H4 + 2H3 26 CD CCC or FdSc Business and Enterprise 56 (Minimum one A2 pass) MPP CCC 2H4 + 1H3 24

EQUINE MANAGEMENT AND SCIENCE

CCC CCCCC or BSc (Hons) Applied Equine Science and Business 96 (Minimum two A2 passes) MMM CCCCC 3H4 + 2H3 26

CCC CCCCC CCCCC or 26 BSc (Hons) Bloodstock and Performance Horse Management 96 (Minimum two A2 passes) MMM 3H4 + 2H3 CCC CCCCC or BSc (Hons) International Equine and Agricultural Business Management 96 (Minimum two A2 passes) MMM CCCCC 3H4 + 2H3 26

REAL ESTATE

BCC BCCCC or BSc (Hons) Real Estate 104 (mainly from A Levels) DMM BCCCC 2H4 + 3H3 26 CDD CCCDD or Diploma Real Estate Valuation 80 (Minimum three A2 passes) MMP BCCCD 3H4 and 2H3 24

RURAL LAND MANAGEMENT

BCC BCCCC or BSc (Hons) Rural Land Management 104 (Minimum three A2 passes) DMM BCCCC 2H4 + 3H3 26 105 Applying to the RAU through UCAS

Mid-January Application completed with Deadline for receipt at up to five choices UCAS of all applications, including the reference, Reference added by school or college for guaranteed equal and application sent to UCAS consideration. UCAS sends acknowledgement to applicant, who checks it carefully

UCAS sends copies of application to all universities and colleges chosen

Each university or college makes decision on application

Offer is made. Unsuccessful application UCAS sends details to applicant

Conditional offer based on Unconditional offer examination results

Decisions received from all chosen universities and colleges. Applicant replies to offers using Decline Track at www.ucas.com or by calling the UCAS Customer Service Unit

May accept one firm and one insurance place

University or college does Examination results published not confirm place

University or college All applications declined or rejected confirms place

EXTRA CLEARING APPLICANT ACCEPTED Firm acceptance Extra and Clearing are UCAS commits applicant to the services that help an applicant, Royal Agricultural University without an offer of a place, to continue their application to find a suitable higher education course. 106 How to get here The University is clearly signposted from the Cirencester bypass. There are frequent train and coach services to Cirencester. The nearest train station is Kemble. Royal Agricultural University, Stroud Road, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 6JS 107

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