Foundation degrees.. what&#x27;s the difference?

A foundation degree (if you pass the course) gives you entrance to a regular degree.

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Nambi

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A foundation degree is two years of a regular degree AND supposed to be more geared towards the workplace.

I have an FdA in Graphic Design. After completing it you can get your third year top-up and get a BA Hons (but I hated it so didn't bother). We did a lot of 'live' briefs.

Depends on what he wants to do with his life.

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EmersonDrain

A foundation degree (if you pass the course) gives you entrance to a regular degree.

So it's basically like doing A levels again?

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username211340

Well I'm doing a 1 year foundation course in Clinical Sciences at Bradford, and providing I get 70% I have the opportunity to transfer to Leeds medical school, and if I don't make the transfer, I can continue onto the 3-year Clinical Sciences course. It's a pretty good deal really. They're far from useless.

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Nambi

A foundation degree is two years of a regular degree AND supposed to be more geared towards the workplace.

I have an FdA in Graphic Design. After completing it you can get your third year top-up and get a BA Hons (but I hated it so didn't bother). We did a lot of 'live' briefs.

Depends on what he wants to do with his life.

Well he wants to go into Business Management, that's all I know.

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lady_leon

So it's basically like doing A levels again?

Sort of but not really. It's a foundation course that helps students prepare for degree level study. A-levels are actually pretty irrelevant for many degrees and the foundation courses are better preparation, as the material is closer to the subject content of the degree that you would enter after the foundation year.

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Nambi

A foundation degree is two years of a regular degree

Sometimes its two years, many foundation courses are just one year and then the students start year 1 of the regular degree programme.

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EmersonDrain

Sort of but not really. It's a foundation course that helps students prepare for degree level study. A-levels are actually pretty irrelevant for many degrees and the foundation courses are better preparation, as the material is closer to the subject content of the degree that you would enter after the foundation year.

So you couldn't just do a foundation degree and graduate from that - you'd have to move onto a BA or a BSc in order to get a degree?

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s_libra

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some degrees offer a built in foundation thats what im currently starting know, maybe he can look it to that its like year 0 and once you complete that you move on to year 1 but thats if you pass it!

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lady_leon

So you couldn't just do a foundation degree and graduate from that - you'd have to move onto a BA or a BSc in order to get a degree?

Yes - a foundation degree is not really a degree in its own right. You need to complete it and then move on to a degree - it's just an alternative entry route for people who didn't take the correct A-level subjects or got lower grades than are required for entry to the normal degree programme.

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EmersonDrain

Yes - a foundation degree is not really a degree in its own right. You need to complete it and then move on to a degree - it's just an alternative entry route for people who didn't take the correct A-level subjects or got lower grades than are required for entry to the normal degree programme.

So if you just stopped after a foundation degree, employers wouldn't look at you in any specific light?
I don't think he wants to take 5 years of education, that's why.

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Juno

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Everyone here is getting mixed up between foundation degrees and foundation courses.

A foundation degree is 2 years, a foundation course is 1.

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Nambi

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EmersonDrain

Sometimes its two years, many foundation courses are just one year and then the students start year 1 of the regular degree programme.

A foundation degree is always 2 years and equivalent to having completed two years of a 'normal' degree

A foundation course is A Level equivalent

Very very different levels of education

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