Agriculture: Degrees
(asked on 27th March 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many agriculture degrees in England offer modules on agroecology.
Answered by
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on UK higher education (HE).
Analysis of HESA’s ‘Student Record 2017/18’ shows that there were 2 HE institutions in England with one or more participants in agroecology[1] modules in the academic year 2017/18. These agroecology modules were all at postgraduate level at either Harper Adams University or Coventry University.
Module data for HE provided by further education colleges and alternative providers is not held centrally.
[1] Relevant module titles identified in the HESA Student Record were ‘Fundamentals of Agroecology’, ‘Agroecological Techniques and Practices’ and ‘Agroecological Production Systems’.