Black Mountains College

  • Educating the Ecological Imagination: The Work of Black Mountains College

    The multi-faceted nature of climate and ecological crisis demands educational practices that help us to grapple with complex systems.

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  • Meet Shirish! Our Newest Trustee…

    BMC are very proud to welcome Shirish Kulkarni to our Board of Trustees! Shirish is an award-winning investigative journalist, researcher…

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  • What is a University?

    In our most recent meeting with the Youth Panel, our academic lead and author of Who are Universities for?,  Professor…

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  • Sue Pritchard on sustainable farming, food and Black Mountains College

    Sue Pritchard, Director of the RSA Food, Farming & Countryside Commission, talks about sustainable food, farming and land use, and how…

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  • Why Black Mountains College is Important: An Artist’s Perspective. By Heather Ackroyd

    Heather Ackroyd, of artist duo Ackroyd and Harvey tells us in her video how BMC will be an important driver…

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  • Why Black Mountains College is Important: A Conservationist’s Perspective. By Sir Tim Smit KBE

    Black Mountains College is possibly the UK’s most exciting and important development in education.  It draws together strands of humanities…

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  • Why Black Mountains College is Important: A Farmer’s Perspective

    By Jeff Gwillim.   My family have farmed the land above Talgarth since the 1700s and, in this time, much has…

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  • The Story so Far

    On a wintry night in 2016, with wind rattling the windows, Ben and his neighbour Owen talked about the frightening…

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