Great responsibilities will rest on his shoulders one day. But in the meantime, Prince William is going back to being a student. |
Great responsibilities will rest on his shoulders one day. But in the meantime, Prince William is going back to being a student. The future king starts a ten-week course in agricultural management at Cambridge University next week. The ‘bespoke’ course has been organised for the 31-year-old Duke of Cambridge to give him an understanding of issues affecting farms and rural communities. It will also, no doubt, come in handy when he inherits the Duchy of Cornwall, one of the biggest private estates in the country, from his father. The second in line to the throne, who has a geography degree from St Andrew’s University, will have around 20 hours a week of timetabled lectures, seminars and meetings. He will also be expected to undertake extensive study in his own time and may be sent on field trips. Although he will still be based at Kensington Palace with the Duchess of Cambridge and son George, staff have organised private accommodation for the prince when he needs to stay in Cambridge. He is likely to be away from home two or three nights a week. The course is run by Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, an institution within the university’s School of Technology and has Prince Charles as its patron. However, Prince William will be based in the Department of Land Economy, teasingly referred to by other students as the ‘Department of Grass Management’. The Duke will not be awarded any qualification at the end of the course, which he is set to finish in mid-March – shortly before he sets off on an official tour of New Zealand and Australia with his family. An aide said: ‘Like his father, the Duke is very much a countryman, he enjoys and is passionate about the countryside and its people. ‘He will continue to take an interest in and champion rural communities but this course will also, of course, be useful to him in future years.’ The cost of the study and accommodation is being met privately, a Kensington Palace spokesman said yesterday. Aides were also quick to stress that as it was being organised specially for the prince, there was no question of any other student places being affected. Prince William quit operational service with the Armed Forces in September after more than seven years. His most recent posting was as a search and rescue pilot with the RAF based in Anglesey, North Wales. In the autumn, Kensington Palace announced that the Duke did not plan to become a full-time working royal immediately, preferring a ‘transitional period’ in which he would undertake public service and work experience-style placements ranging from government departments to charity offices. Critics, however, have accused the prince of being ‘workshy’ and derided that plan as little more than an extended gap year. Prince Charles graduated with a 2:2 degree in history at Trinity College Cambridge after studying there from 1967 to 1970. His father, the Duke of Edinburgh, served as chancellor of the university from 1976 to 2011. |
綜合外國(guó)媒體12月30日?qǐng)?bào)道,英國(guó)劍橋公爵威廉王子將從下周開(kāi)始在劍橋大學(xué)就讀農(nóng)業(yè)管理課程。 該課程屬于劍橋大學(xué)可持續(xù)發(fā)展領(lǐng)導(dǎo)力項(xiàng)目,以講座、研討會(huì)等形式授課,每周20小時(shí)左右,主要目的是讓威廉了解當(dāng)代農(nóng)業(yè)經(jīng)營(yíng)和農(nóng)村社區(qū)。威廉將自行承擔(dān)大量研究,撰寫(xiě)論文,可能還會(huì)去農(nóng)村實(shí)地考察。該課程將持續(xù)10周,從1月初開(kāi)始,到3月中旬結(jié)束,結(jié)業(yè)后不會(huì)授予證書(shū)。 毫無(wú)疑問(wèn),此次學(xué)習(xí)會(huì)在威廉從父親手中繼承康沃爾公爵領(lǐng)地時(shí)派上用場(chǎng),該領(lǐng)地橫跨23個(gè)郡,占地面積13萬(wàn)英畝(約5.26公頃)。一位助手說(shuō):“和他的父親一樣,(劍橋)公爵在很大程度上是個(gè)鄉(xiāng)下人,他喜歡農(nóng)村和農(nóng)民,對(duì)他們充滿熱情。” 肯辛頓宮發(fā)言人日前表示,學(xué)費(fèi)和住宿費(fèi)還在私下商討中,將由王室自付。助手們強(qiáng)調(diào),該課程是為威廉專門(mén)設(shè)置的,不會(huì)影響其他學(xué)生。另?yè)?jù)報(bào)道,威廉仍然和凱特王妃、喬治小王子一起住在肯辛頓宮,但是工作人員也為他在劍橋安排了私人住宿,一周中他可能有兩三晚不能住在家中。 威廉今年9月從英國(guó)皇家空軍退役,他將在未來(lái)幾個(gè)月里承擔(dān)大量的王室工作,替女王和愛(ài)丁堡公爵分憂。不過(guò)肯辛頓宮此前曾宣布,威廉并不打算馬上承擔(dān)全職的皇家工作,他更傾向于有一個(gè)“過(guò)渡期”,在這個(gè)期間里他想從事從政府部門(mén)到慈善機(jī)構(gòu)的一些公共服務(wù)。 早在2005年,威廉就獲得了圣安德魯斯大學(xué)二等一級(jí)地理學(xué)學(xué)位,并在這里遇到了現(xiàn)在的妻子凱特。此后他在桑赫斯特英國(guó)皇家陸軍軍官學(xué)院接受了44周的軍事訓(xùn)練,并于2008年進(jìn)入英國(guó)皇家空軍服役,在近期退役前擔(dān)任皇家空軍搜救直升機(jī)的駕駛員。 相關(guān)閱讀 【我的中國(guó)夢(mèng)】癌癥患者的重生之夢(mèng) 【走出國(guó)門(mén)】文萊華裔不再“無(wú)國(guó)籍” (玉潔 編輯:信蓮)
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