Education with Foundation Year

Foundation Year

Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.

International Students

For International Students, Foundation Years are delivered through our dedicated on-campus provider, Keele University International College. Applications for International Foundation Years are also handled by KUIC; please do not apply via UCAS as the University will not be able to process your application and you may still be charged the UCAS application fee. To find out more and to apply for an International Foundation Year, visit https://kuic.keele.ac.uk/

Education

Embark on a journey to uncovering the contemporary challenges surrounding education. Become a successful and dynamic educational professional with a proactive approach to navigating the ever evolving education sector. Whether you want to work in a school, as a youth worker, train as a child psychologist, or maybe shape educational policy, our programme equips you with advanced transferable skills in communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving, preparing you for a wide range of careers working with learners.

Why choose this course?

• Global Top 300 for Education (Times Higher Education World University Subject Rankings, 2022)

• Examine contemporary challenges in education including inequality, the emergence of artificial intelligence and social change

• Prepare for a wide range of careers across the education sector and beyond

• Benefit from real-world industry experience with a placement year opportunity

• A chance to broaden your horizons and study abroad at a partner university

Investigate how the education system operates in the modern world and examine a range of theories from disciplines such as sociology, history, psychology and philosophy. You will cover a broad range of topics from key psychological theories and models to explain how young people develop in the classroom, to core social science principles of designing, implementing, and analysing social research. Our programme adopts a distinctive approach to exploring learning theories and themes, such as social mobility and inequality.

Our unique combination of educational theory combined with active practical application will provide insight into real world situations to help enhance your skills and expertise as a practitioner in the classroom. You will consider how theories, ideas, and concepts can be applied in practice across a range of environments and age groups, from young people in classrooms to adults in the local community.

About Keele

Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.

We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.

Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.

For a list of indicative modules please visit the course page on the Keele University website.