Keele University Prospectus Undergraduate | 2016 | Page 217

For further information, please contact The course Keele University boasts the longest running foundation year in the country, being established in 1949. Since then the programme has flourished and continues to evolve in order to meet the needs of students from a variety of learning backgrounds. It is highly student centred and has a fully modular structure. The programme is very suitable for students from a wide range of backgrounds; around one third of the total foundation year intake have non-traditional qualifications. Dr Sam Bishop Foundation Year Centre Keele University Staffordshire, ST5 5BG T: 01782 734959 E: [email protected] WWW.KEELE.AC.UK/UNDERGRADUATE Key Information All applicants must meet the University’s general entry requirements, but you will be given the opportunity to achieve subject-related requirements during the year. There is a central core that provides training in generic transferable skills and additional modules are chosen on an individual basis in consultation with a personal tutor. A variety of subjects is studied in the foundation year, including those most closely related to your intended subsequent degree. Being taught on the university campus by university staff, the programme introduces you to the style and pace of a degree course. Extended degree programme The foundation year forms the first year of an extended degree programme (except in the case of the General Foundation Year), with the Foundation Year being the first (additional) year. In most cases progression to the following years of the degree is dependent only on passing the Foundation Year with the required grades. In the case of the International Foundation Year and the Accelerated International Foundation Year, the degree plus Foundation Year is a 1 + 3 programme and you are required to obtain a new visa after the Foundation Year. However, apart from that constraint, progression to most degree subjects is automatic, subject to passing the Foundation Year with the required grades, via a progression agreement in place between the Foundation Year and the degree programmes. Up to date information can be found on the foundation year web page at www.keele.ac.uk/foundationyear www.keele.ac.uk/ugcourses 217