Pharm with foundation at Keele or Wolverhampton
I’ve been offered a place for Pharmacy with foundation year at Keele. I really wanted to go to Keele as I liked the campus and knew it would be a great place for me. On the train it takes me 2 hours to get there so everyday commute would be quite draining. I could stay there but ideally don’t want to as I don’t want to be away from family. By car, it takes 1h.
I have also been offered a place in Wolverhampton but for pharmaceutical science with foundation year. They don’t have a pharmacy foundation year so that’s why I’ve been offered this just to do a foundation year. I will need to successfully complete the foundation year to progress onto the actual pharmacy course. Wolverhampton is 1h 20 via train which is an easier commute.
I have been told that unis which rank lower offer more support to their students which in this case is Wolverhampton.
I don’t know which uni to firm from the two. If anyone could try and help me it would be much appreciated.
I have also been offered a place in Wolverhampton but for pharmaceutical science with foundation year. They don’t have a pharmacy foundation year so that’s why I’ve been offered this just to do a foundation year. I will need to successfully complete the foundation year to progress onto the actual pharmacy course. Wolverhampton is 1h 20 via train which is an easier commute.
I have been told that unis which rank lower offer more support to their students which in this case is Wolverhampton.
I don’t know which uni to firm from the two. If anyone could try and help me it would be much appreciated.
Original post by Sadzx
I’ve been offered a place for Pharmacy with foundation year at Keele. I really wanted to go to Keele as I liked the campus and knew it would be a great place for me. On the train it takes me 2 hours to get there so everyday commute would be quite draining. I could stay there but ideally don’t want to as I don’t want to be away from family. By car, it takes 1h.
I have also been offered a place in Wolverhampton but for pharmaceutical science with foundation year. They don’t have a pharmacy foundation year so that’s why I’ve been offered this just to do a foundation year. I will need to successfully complete the foundation year to progress onto the actual pharmacy course. Wolverhampton is 1h 20 via train which is an easier commute.
I have been told that unis which rank lower offer more support to their students which in this case is Wolverhampton.
I don’t know which uni to firm from the two. If anyone could try and help me it would be much appreciated.
I have also been offered a place in Wolverhampton but for pharmaceutical science with foundation year. They don’t have a pharmacy foundation year so that’s why I’ve been offered this just to do a foundation year. I will need to successfully complete the foundation year to progress onto the actual pharmacy course. Wolverhampton is 1h 20 via train which is an easier commute.
I have been told that unis which rank lower offer more support to their students which in this case is Wolverhampton.
I don’t know which uni to firm from the two. If anyone could try and help me it would be much appreciated.
With respect to Wolverhampton's Pharmaceutical Science with Foundation Year, you say "I will need to successfully complete the foundation year to progress onto the actual pharmacy course". Do you mean "actual pharmacy course"? Or do you mean "actual Pharmaceutical Science course"?
The reason I ask is that I can see no mention on their web site to suggest that you can do a Foundation Year in Pharmaceutical Science and then switch to Pharmacy. Perhaps you can, and they just don't advertise that fact widely. Do you have a web link where it says this is possible?
I can see that their MPharm Pharmacy page (at https://www.wlv.ac.uk/courses/mpharm-hons-pharmacy/) says, in terms of entry requirements, that "Foundation Years are assessed on a case by case basis, a minimum grade of 75% overall and 70% in Chemistry modules would also be required." However, I can't see anything which confirms that their own Pharmaceutical Science Foundation Year would do the trick.
Original post by DataVenia
With respect to Wolverhampton's Pharmaceutical Science with Foundation Year, you say "I will need to successfully complete the foundation year to progress onto the actual pharmacy course". Do you mean "actual pharmacy course"? Or do you mean "actual Pharmaceutical Science course"?
The reason I ask is that I can see no mention on their web site to suggest that you can do a Foundation Year in Pharmaceutical Science and then switch to Pharmacy. Perhaps you can, and they just don't advertise that fact widely. Do you have a web link where it says this is possible?
I can see that their MPharm Pharmacy page (at https://www.wlv.ac.uk/courses/mpharm-hons-pharmacy/) says, in terms of entry requirements, that "Foundation Years are assessed on a case by case basis, a minimum grade of 75% overall and 70% in Chemistry modules would also be required." However, I can't see anything which confirms that their own Pharmaceutical Science Foundation Year would do the trick.
The reason I ask is that I can see no mention on their web site to suggest that you can do a Foundation Year in Pharmaceutical Science and then switch to Pharmacy. Perhaps you can, and they just don't advertise that fact widely. Do you have a web link where it says this is possible?
I can see that their MPharm Pharmacy page (at https://www.wlv.ac.uk/courses/mpharm-hons-pharmacy/) says, in terms of entry requirements, that "Foundation Years are assessed on a case by case basis, a minimum grade of 75% overall and 70% in Chemistry modules would also be required." However, I can't see anything which confirms that their own Pharmaceutical Science Foundation Year would do the trick.
Thank you so much for the swift response.
Yes I do mean the actual pharmacy course. Below I have attached the offer l've received from Wolvs.
Original post by Sadzx
Thank you so much for the swift response.
Yes I do mean the actual pharmacy course. Below I have attached the offer l've received from Wolvs.
Yes I do mean the actual pharmacy course. Below I have attached the offer l've received from Wolvs.
Excellent.
The "progression requirements as stated on our website" probably refers to "a minimum grade of 75% overall and 70% in Chemistry modules" (which I quoted above), which sounds pretty demanding to me.I think Keele's two-hour commute by train each way will get very tiring very quickly - but at least you'd be able to study on the train, so those four hours wouldn't be wasted. You obviously couldn't do that if you drove.
I don't know about these particular courses / universities, but degree timetables can be quite sparse. So you might have one day where you only have a single one-hour lecture. Are you really going to get on a train for 1 hour 20 minutes, or 2 hours, just to attend a one-hour lecture, and then do the same journey back again?
You say "Wolverhampton is 1h 20 via train" - is driving an option? Would that get the commute time to under an hour?
Yes I was thinking the same that the Wolvs one seems quite demanding. It would probably be less stressful to do it at Keele which I would most likely be successful on that foundation year.
Keele is about 50 mins via train and then from the train station you have to get a bus which has around 23/24 stops and takes another 40/50 minutes to get to campus. That’s why it’s 2h travel time. I feel this would become very exhausting as I’d have to wake up super early just to get to uni.
You’re right! I did not think about if I only had one lecture. I don’t think there’s many cases as such though from what I’ve heard from other pharm students at other unis, only on some occassions. I really don’t want to stay but I don’t know.
Both Keele and Wolverhampton are 1h by car. I could drive there and back but then it’s the expenses of a car & insurance as a new driver which are insane.
Keele is about 50 mins via train and then from the train station you have to get a bus which has around 23/24 stops and takes another 40/50 minutes to get to campus. That’s why it’s 2h travel time. I feel this would become very exhausting as I’d have to wake up super early just to get to uni.
You’re right! I did not think about if I only had one lecture. I don’t think there’s many cases as such though from what I’ve heard from other pharm students at other unis, only on some occassions. I really don’t want to stay but I don’t know.
Both Keele and Wolverhampton are 1h by car. I could drive there and back but then it’s the expenses of a car & insurance as a new driver which are insane.
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