[annyilf]

I am 17 years old, and I live in Brazil my dream is to study in London but I don't know where to begin, some people tell me to do A levels, olthers Foudation course or straight to university! HELP

[A.A.T.]

Depends on your qualifications and where you study (i.e. state school/college or private school/college).

A foundation course at university is a stepping stone to the degree and A Levels is a step before university.

It is true that some students from school go direct to a foundation degree but this would be after a proper assessment of grades, experience and other qualities etc has been sought.

Seems you need some proper guidance from an educational advisor which usually schools have.

[Clare~Bear]

You need a-levels or (your countries) equivilent to get into uni. A foundation degree is an extra year at the beginning of a degree course thats teaches you relevant stuff at a-level standard. Its for people who do irrelevant a-levels to the course, but do well in them - so not for people who want to do english but failed both englishes at a-level. Or are you talking about a foundation course/ access course you do at colleges? they're equivilent to a-levels. My mum never completed a-levels at 6th form. A few years ago she did an access course and did history at uni.

I know London is the capital, but living and studying there will be extremely expensive. There are just as good/better universities in other parts of the country.

The best British unis include (but probably not in this order, and there are a few others that are just as/nearly as good);

Oxford
Cambridge
Durham
St Andrews
Warwick
Bath
Bristol

Non of those are in london, but the following are;

University College London
London School of Economics
Imperial college London