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What is a Foundation Degree?

What is a Foundation Degree?. Two-year qualification, broadly equivalent to first two years of an Honours Degree Option to ‘top-up’ to full honours degree Vocational focus

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What is a Foundation Degree?

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  1. What is a Foundation Degree? • Two-year qualification, broadly equivalent to first two years of an Honours Degree • Option to ‘top-up’ to full honours degree • Vocational focus • Newcastle College Foundation Degrees are designed in conjunction with employers to develop practical skills and knowledge required by employers

  2. Entry Requirements • Varies from institution to institution, but often vocational equivalents may be accepted rather than A-levels. Prior experience may also be taken into account. • Newcastle College generally require 160 UCAS points and Maths and English GCSE at grade C or higher, or functional skills level 2 • Creative Industries courses generally look for 120-160 UCAS points plus portfolio/interview/audition

  3. Progression Routes

  4. Subject Areas • Aerospace • Art and Design • Beauty • Business • Childcare • Computing • Digital Arts • Paralegal Practice • Engineering • Health and Social Care • Music • Performance/ Production Arts • Science • Sport and Exercise • Travel, Aviation and Hospitality

  5. Industry Supporters

  6. Getting your money’s worth…. • Demonstrable experience • Some courses offer the chance to undertake additional or professional accreditation/ certification • Volunteering opportunities/ Students’ Union support • Newcastle College has Internships (paid) through Student as Producer • Opportunity to get involved in RSA

  7. Aviation Academy

  8. Art and Design

  9. Music

  10. Performing Arts

  11. Beauty Therapy

  12. Parsons Building

  13. Sandyford Campus

  14. Tuition Fees £6,900 per year - considerably less than most institutions £1,000 cash bursary for each year of study

  15. Student Loans

  16. Part Time • Part-time study is often popular with adult learners who intend to juggle the degree alongside full-time employment or childcare commitments. • Choosing to study a foundation degree or honours degree top-up part time impacts upon how much money a student is entitled to from Student Finance England. • If students wish to go part-time at Newcastle College, they will not have to go through the UCAS application process, and can apply directly through our website. • At Newcastle College part-time students can expect to pay just £4,000 per year.

  17. How to apply for a full time degree

  18. “I went to a friend’s graduation at one of the big universities and it wasn’t nearly as fun and upbeat as our celebrations!” Liliana Lima BA (Hons) Travel and Tourism Management Graduated 2015

  19. Further Information To find out more about Foundation Degree study at Newcastle College please contact: Alicia Clovis at Alicia.Clovis@ncl-coll.ac.uk

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