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University with no qualifications

Just after some advice.

I really want to go to university. But I'm 20 years old and have no qualifications at all due to previous personal issues (apart from a Level 1 in Employment, Teamwork and Community Skills from The Prince's Trust and a couple of U, X, D, E GCSEs and E, D, F, U GCSE equivalents).

Is there any chance that any uni's will accept me on a course with a foundation entry?

I emailed University Of Central Lancashire about a Screenwriting in Film, Television and Radio (Foundation Entry) BA (Hons) as Television is the route I want to go down and that course is my first choice should I apply (which I haven't yet as I'd rather to know whether it's worth it before probably getting loads of rejections).

But am I wasting my time?
(edited 8 years ago)
plenty people get on foundation degrees with no quals; go for it
You are unlikely to get into university, even for a foundation year with no GCSEs. I would recommend that you take GCSEs in maths and English this academic year. After that, your best options are an Access to HE course, which is a one-year fast track level 3 course designed to help mature students into university, or a foundation year. The former are offered at most further education colleges. They have much lower tuition fees than foundation years, but you cannot get help from Student Finance. A foundation year at a university is treated as Year 0 of a degree, and you can get normal Student Finance for it.

A foundation degree is different from a foundation year.It can be taken at an FE college, usually takes two years, and can be topped up to a BA/BSc at certain universities. There is a limited choice of foundation degrees, and you may not be able to find anything suitable for screenwriting, etc.
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Klix88
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Good advice from Schadenfreude. Most unis will want proof of recent successful study and hopefully UCLan will give you pointers for the course you're interested in.

I would echo the advice that GCSE English and Maths at Grade C or above, are the very minimum you'll need to be considered. Some basic level of literacy and numeracy will be needed for uni, and those will provide the proof.

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