LONDON: Britain's Prince William today started attending an agricultural management course at Cambridge, travelling to the prestigious university by train.
The Duke of Cambridge, who lives with wife Kate and baby George at Kensington Palace in London, took a train from the city's King's Cross station to arrive at the university town.
He is expected to undertake the 46-minute journey regularly during his 10-week course organised by the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership but may also take up a private residence in the town in case some of his seminars begin early or finish late.
While the programme has been specially designed for the future king, he will be studying alongside other PhD students in some classes.
The 31-year-old was greeted at St John's College, where some of his tutorials will take place, by vice-chancellor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz along with Master of St John's Professor Christopher Dobson and Polly Courtice, director of the Programme for Sustainability Leadership.
William, dressed in a navy blue suit, then toured the college grounds in the rain and stopped along the way to view a plaque commemorating a visit to the college in April 2011 by his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
Designed to help equip William with agricultural know-how ahead of one day inheriting the vast Duchy of Cornwall estate from his father Prince Charles, the course will run until mid-March and will be funded privately by the royal family.
According to The Times, the Duke will have 20 hours of teaching time each week, including work in small groups as well as one-to-one tuition and his own additional reading.
He will also go on a series of field trips and will be taught by academics specialising in geography, land economy and plant sciences.
Modules he is expected to study include rural and planning policy, farming and supply chains, site management, agricultural policy and conservation governance.
The course is at the centre of what has been described as his transitional year after the end of his service as a Royal Air Force (RAF) rescue helicopter pilot in Anglesey, Wales, last year.
Some students at Cambridge University have accused the prince of securing a free pass to the university.
In one of its articles, university newspaper The Tab wrote, "The Tab must point out that normally students need A*AA at A-level to gain entry to Cambridge University, whilst the prince only achieved a mediocre ABC."
But others have rallied behind the royal student, who will no doubt add an edge to the traditional rivalry with Oxford University.
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