Foundation Degrees

Foundation degrees are vocational, higher education qualifications, designed by employers in collaboration with further and higher education colleges and universities.

Launched in 2001 and combining academic study with work-based learning and experience, Foundation degrees can be studied full-time or part-time and many students choose to study whilst they are employed.

A Foundation degree course usually runs for two years full-time or three years part-time and many programmes offer a structured progression to degree level.

Foundation Degrees at Edge Hill University

• FdSc Accountancy
• FdA Business and Management
• FdSc Complementary Therapies
• FdA Counselling
• FdA Early Years Leadership
• FdA Early Years Practice
• FdA Further Education Management
• FdSc Health and Social Care (Assistant Practitioner)
• FdSc Health Sciences
• FdA Higher Education Management
• FdSc Information Technology
• FdSc Integrated Practice (Early Years and Children)
• FdSc Integrated Practice (Young People)
• FdA Leisure and Tourism Management
• FdSc Management and Supervision of Offenders
• FdA Playwork
• FdA Post-Compulsory Education and Training
• FdA Professional Development
• FdSc Public Health
• FdSc Sports Coaching
• FdA Theatre, Applied Drama and Creativity
• FdSc Working with Vulnerable Adults
• FdSc Working with Families and Communities

Advantages for Students

• Extremely accessible with flexible entry requirements and study times.
• Benefit from a work-related qualification designed, developed and supported by employers.
• Acquire and develop knowledge and skills highly valued by employers, lifting your horizons and improving your career prospects.
• Suitable for everyone with the ability and motivation to succeed, even if you've never considered higher education before. It doesn't matter if you are unemployed seeking a way into work or in employment and looking to improve your skills or change career.
• Opportunity to progress to other professional qualifications and relevant honours degrees.

Advantages for Employers

• Develop the skills and knowledge of your workforce.
• Flexible programmes, available full-time, part time, in the workplace and via distance learning, mean your employees can study when it's convenient for you.
• Tackle higher level skills shortages and stay ahead of the competition.
• Ensure your employees have skills relevant to the work sector and an understanding of your organisation's work culture and environment.
• Link existing internal training programmes to a national qualification.