Foundation Degrees

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Foundation DegreesDelivery Plan

• Dr Alan Maybury
• Foundation for Success

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What is a Foundation Degree?

• A new higher education qualification
• 240 credit points
• Students progress on to year three of an honours
  degree following possible bridging studies

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What is a Foundation Degree?

• Designed to equip students with
• technical skills
• academic knowledge
• transferable skills demanded by employers
• high level employability skills

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Objectives

• Address shortages of intermediate level skills in
  the regional and national economies
• Enhance students employability
• Widen participation in HE and contribute to
  lifelong learning
• Rationalise and enhance the quality of provision
  below honours degree level

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Key Aspects

• Designed to be highly valued in the job market
• Work experience
• Collaboration between
• universities
• colleges
• employers
• National Training Organisations
• Flexible delivery
• Progression

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Essential Elements

• Rigorous and broad-based academic learning
• Specialist technical knowledge and skills
• Core skills
• employability skills
• key skills
• Informed employment perspective

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Employability Skills

• Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
• Project Management
• Project Planning
• Career Management
• Cross-cultural Management

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Key Skills

• Communication
• Team-working
• Problem Solving
• Application of Number
• Use of Information Technology
• Life-Long Learning

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Entry Requirements

• GNVQs/NVQs or other Level 3
• Occupational qualifications
• A levels or vocational A levels
• An Advanced Modern Apprenticeship with Level 3
  qualifications
• No traditional qualifications, but you may be
  able to gain a place at an institution through
  AP(E)L.

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Courses

• Finance and Law
• (University of Huddersfield)
• Health and Social Care
• (University of Bradford)
• Health-Related Exercise and Fitness
• (Leeds Metropolitan University)

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How courses are delivered

• Foundation degrees will be delivered in a variety
  of ways, such as
• part-time
• full-time
• work-based
• distance learning
• web-based
• The exact mix will depend on each
• specific subject and the place offering
• the course.

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Delivery Plan - Health and Social Care

• Significant element of work-based learning (90
  credit points over the two years).
• Some of the Health Therapy modules to be
  delivered by the University staff at the
  colleges.
• The remainder of the programme will be delivered
  in the FECs and the work place

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Health and Social Care - Delivery Centres

• Bradford College (Full Time)
• Calderdale College (Part Time)
• Shipley College (Part Time)
• Thomas Danby (Part Time)
• Wakefield College (Part Time)
• Various employers for WBL
• Huddersfield College delay start until 2002

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Delivery Plan - Finance and Law

• The programme will be delivered by a combination
  of taught, on-line learning and work-based
  learning.
• The knowledge aspects of the course will be
  delivered on-line with some tutorial support from
  partner colleges.
• Work-based learning of 60 credit points which
  will deliver some of the core skills such as
  employability etc.

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Finance and Law - Delivery Centres

• Bradford College
• Calderdale College
• Dewsbury College
• Huddersfield College
• Joseph Priestley College
• Keighley College
• Park Lane College
• Wakefield College
• Various employers

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Delivery Plan Health-Related Exercise and Fitness

• The programme will be delivered by a combination
  of taught, distance learning and work-based
  learning.
• The programme is very flexible and students can
  move between part and full time.

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Health-Related Exercise and Fitness Delivery
Centres

• Bradford College (Full/Part Time)
• Dewsbury College (Part Time)
• Thomas Danby (Part Time)
• Various employers for WBL
• Wakefield College will begin to deliver the
  programmes later in the academic year or 2002

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Where are we now?

• Programmes are in the later stages of approval
  ready for September start
• Marketing campaign started
• Administrative systems are being agreed and put
  in place.

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