Black Mountains College is a brand-new college in the Brecon Beacons National Park, having launched in 2021 with our first cohort of students. We aim to create a future where nature and humans thrive. BMC focuses on the challenge of our times: how to build a fair and just society within safe planetary boundaries. We offer Further Education NVQ courses, various short courses and residential camps, and a single degree programme - BA (Hons) Sustainable Futures: Arts, Ecology and Systems Change.
Our learning model, applied across all our courses, integrates the head, hands and heart, multi-sensory protocols, outdoor learning and multiple hierarchies of knowledge or ways of knowing.
Learning in context, on the land, in ecosystems, within economies and social structures and organisations is what applied, experiential and problem-based learning is all about. All our courses acknowledge the forest school principle that re-connection to nature begins with making nature itself the classroom. Studies have shown that outdoor learning correlates with enhanced learning outcomes, well-being, concentration, behaviour, memory, and confidence.
