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Foundation pathway in Biological and Biomedical Sciences

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Key course facts

Course dates September start:
Mon 27 Sep 2010 to Fri 17 Jun 2011
January start:
Mon 10 Jan 2011 to Fri 19 Aug 2011
Programme length

Two Semesters 

Class hours 21 hours per week minimum
Age requirement
17 years and above.
English entry requirement A minimum of IELTS 5.5 (with a minimum of 5.0 in all subskills) or an equivalent score
Students who do not meet the minimum English language requirements should apply for English for Undergraduate Study 
Academic entry requirement Students need to have completed 12 years of schooling (or the local equivalent to meet the same standard) with very good grades, or show strong evidence of ability to complete the programme successfully and progress to their chosen degree
Price for tuition £10,500
Not included in course fees text books - available from the Centre for an additional charge in the region of £130 per academic course an additional £250 per year fee to cover the use of laboratory facilities (only applicable to science-based courses) 

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Preparing you for degree courses in Biological, Biomedical and Agricultural sciences

This programme has been carefully designed to provide you with the academic knowledge, laboratory techniques and the English and study skills in order to sucessfully prepare you for degree programmes in:

Please note that there is no progression to medicine or dentistry from this pathway programme.

As part of the course you will complete an English for Academic purposes core module, and will select the remaining modules according to the degree programme you wish to study at University.  To find out more about each of these modules click here.

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