Pope Benedict XII in 1337 laid down, in the bull Pastor bonus, that 5% of Benedictine monks should be university students. But from the middle of the fourteenth century onwards there was an alternative, at the University of Cambridge. There were also the Benedictine Durham College, Oxford, and Canterbury College, Oxford.
Pope Benedict XII's 1337 bull Pastor bonus mandated that a certain percentage of Benedictine monks engage in higher education. As a result, an alternative route to university education developed at the University of Cambridge, alongside institutions such as the Benedictine Durham College and Canterbury College in Oxford.