Foundation year after access course
I am coming to the end of my access to health course and it's looking like I'm not going to get all the ucas points I need to go to my chosen university nursing course. Are my doors still open and am I eligible for a foundation year to get me to where I want to be or am I completely out of options without the required ucas points😩 any advice is greatly appreciated!🤞🏼🤞🏼
Original post by Georgie_C08
I am coming to the end of my access to health course and it's looking like I'm not going to get all the ucas points I need to go to my chosen university nursing course. Are my doors still open and am I eligible for a foundation year to get me to where I want to be or am I completely out of options without the required ucas points😩 any advice is greatly appreciated!🤞🏼🤞🏼
There are certain courses that come with foundation years, but once you're in the course it's difficult to transfer out to another course or university. See the following as examples:
https://www.wlv.ac.uk/courses/bnurs-hons-mental-health-nursing-with-foundation-year/
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/undergraduate/nursing-studies-registered-nurse-adult-nursing-foundation-year/2023#entry
https://courses.uwe.ac.uk/B900/health-professions#entry
https://www.salford.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/nursing-children-and-young-peoples-with-health-care-foundation-year
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/study-at-northumbria/courses/health-education-and-social-care-foundation-year-uufhed1/#entry-next-year
Not sure about the following, so you would need to check with undergrad admissions:
https://www.coventry.ac.uk/cus/course-structure/foundation/nursing-allied-health-professions/
https://www.aru.ac.uk/health-education-medicine-and-social-care/allied-health/public-health-foundation-a-route-to-nursing-or-odp
I would use the following to double check whether the above degrees would allow you to become a nurse (otherwise there would be little point in you doing the degree considering your goals): https://www.nmc.org.uk/education/approved-programmes/
Original post by Georgie_C08
I am coming to the end of my access to health course and it's looking like I'm not going to get all the ucas points I need to go to my chosen university nursing course. Are my doors still open and am I eligible for a foundation year to get me to where I want to be or am I completely out of options without the required ucas points😩 any advice is greatly appreciated!🤞🏼🤞🏼
Hey @Georgie_C08,
There are definitely options out there - we have foundation years for all three of our Nursing programmes that accept access courses and have slightly lower UCAS point entry requirements (as will other institutions), so there are definitely still routes into university! If you're still waiting on final grades obviously wait and see how things pan out, but if you find out you're unfortunately not able to get onto your programme of course (absolutely fingers crossed this ISN'T the case) the university may have a foundation year route they could consider you for instead. You could call up a range of universities in Clearing to see if they have any spaces on foundation year/standard 3 year degree routes available, which is a great way to still get that place in university to study what you love. With Nursing it is dependent on whether they will 'open' the course in Clearing (i.e. take applications via clearing for it) however there's absolutely no harm in calling to ask when the lines open at each university on the 5th July.
I hope that helps - absolute best of luck to you, I've got my fingers crossed all works out well!
All the best,
Becky
University of Salford Rep
Interesting - I have completed my access course with 45D but have also opted to take the foundation year mainly because I want to be sure that I am really at the right level before I start the undergraduate degree - this also allows an element of choice because Birmingham offers a number of different options on successful completion of the foundation year.
Original post by Dutchbulb
Interesting - I have completed my access course with 45D but have also opted to take the foundation year mainly because I want to be sure that I am really at the right level before I start the undergraduate degree - this also allows an element of choice because Birmingham offers a number of different options on successful completion of the foundation year.
Precisely the same situation as me, best decision I made by far!
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