Schumacher College is a progressive college for ecological studies offering postgraduate and undergraduate programmes, research degrees, short courses and a practical agroecology residency.

We focus on interactive and experiential education to help students develop the practical skills and strategic, holistic thinking required to face 21st century challenges and to instigate regenerative futures.

Our learning ethos is about participating, getting out into the field, into the kitchen, experiencing the world as a starting point for more in-depth enquiry. We exist to help our students become real change-makers and work out how to act meaningfully to help resolve the pressing issues we all face today.

Schumacher College and its founder Satish Kumar are also proud recipients of the 2023 RSA Bicentenary Medal for outstanding contribution to ecological education.

ABOUT US: Read more about our history and ethos >

Grower in our growing space, Henri's Field

Degrees

We are currently delivering a range of postgraduate and undergraduate courses as part of our learning portfolio. Find out more about our subject areas here.

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flexible learning

There are so many ways to connect with our learning programmes to suit your lifestyle – including low-residency or part time routes, unaccredited modules, and blended learning models.

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Our Courses

Our courses celebrate the ethos of learning by doing and nature connection developed here at Schumacher College and across a century of arts learning on the Dartington estate. They unite ecology, craft skills and contemporary art with politics, philosophy and social justice, underpinned by a stronger sense of our place in the world. Our learning experiences are offered alongside short courses from the Dartington Arts School as part of a collaborative learning community.

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Unaccredited modules

If you love our degree programmes but can’t commit to a full course, it’s possible to select modules as unaccredited short courses. 

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Sustainable Growing online course

Our on deman online course taking you through 6 months of the growing season and introducing you to a range of eco-friendly practices to boost biodiversity.

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virtually schumacher

– Ongoing series of live chats with course tutors
Podcasts
Video archive – including our long-running Earth Talks series

research at dartington

We offer research degrees in partnership with University of Westminster CREAM. Our researchers have expertise in a wide range of topics including arts practice-led research; animism; medieval literature; modernism; story and myth; arts, design and ecology; ecology and spirituality; Goethean science; regenerative economics, farming and food; social work with adults and children; and social enterprise.

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latest news & blogs

Stories in Time

Stories in Time

Dr Sarah Elisa Kelly, tutor on our short course Unravelling Time, writes on eco-perspectives and how the socities we live in can shape our own relationship with time.

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Bullfinch Diaries by Dr Stephan Harding

Bullfinch Diaries by Dr Stephan Harding

In this blog post Dr Stephan Harding reflects creatively on the vicissitudes of life and our place in the world following a chance encounter with a bullfinch.It’s mid-March, and the snow falls thick and fast, most unusually for early spring in the south west of...

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watch: Soil To Supper – Sustainability at Schumacher

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We`re delighted to welcome a private learning visit with attendees from Japan this week. This bespoke #schumacherexperience involves participating in lectures, gardening, cooking, wood carving, gong meditation, a deep time walk with Stephan Harding and time with Satish, pictured. If you`re interested in bringing a group to learn about our unique pedagogy here at Schumacher, drop us a line on shortcourses@dartington.org ...

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Honoured and delighted that, along with Satish, we have been awarded the prestigious RSA Bicentenary Medal in recognition of our contribution to new economic and ecological learning. See link in bio for the full story. ...

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🍃 Join us on Saturday 2 September as we celebrate Small Is Beautiful and EF Schumacher`s proportionate approach to economics. 🍃 What did it mean 50 years ago when he published this influential book? What does it mean for us and the environment today? How can we adapt and reimagine his ethos for a sustainable, even regenerative future?
🍃 We`re bringing together some leading thinkers and doers in the field of alternative and regenerative economics including Helena Norberg-Hodge, Ruth Potts, Jonathan Dawson, Jay Tompt, Sebastian Berger, Frances Northrop and Satish Kumar and more! You can book online now to be part of the conversation, joining us at the College for a full day, with lunch included.

#regenerative #economics #smallisbeautiful #alternative #ecoactivism #environment #ecological #ecology
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Insightful interview with writer, artist and technologist James Bridle on the latest episode of the Arts & Ecology podcast. James is the author of `New Dark Age` (2018) and `Ways of Being` (2022) and their work can be found at http://jamesbridle.com.

Listen to the podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/arts-ecology/id1632823460
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