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Laying Firm Foundations for your Future

May 31, 2011 at 2:47 pm · Filed under Uncategorized · Posted by admin

We are now taking bookings for the University Foundation Programme for Business, starting in September 2011 - an excellent course for students who want to develop their English to progress to University.

Lasting 2 or 3 terms of 13 weeks each, it is validated by the University of Wales and successful graduates can go on to study at the following universities on a vast range of Business-related Bachelor degrees from BA (Hons) Business Studies with Economics, or BA (Hons) Advertising to even BA Law:

To gain a place you need a certificate allowing university matriculation in your home country and IELTS 4.5 equivalent.

The teaching team who are responsible for delivering the programme have at least 5 years of qualified teaching experience each. They have taught English all over the world to a variety of ages, abilities and nationalities and they have a wide range of qualifications between them such as the Trinity LTCL Diploma in TESOL, DELTA, an English Language Teaching BA, a Modern Languages BA and an MSc in International Management.

About the programme:

The programme is taught over three terms of 13 weeks each and consists of 10 modules:

  1. English for Study (Term 1)
  2. Study Skills (Terms 1 & 2)
  3. Basic Numeracy (Term 1)
  4. Basics of Business (Term 1)
  5. English for Academic Purposes (EAP) (Terms 2&3)
  6. Basics of Accounting and Finance (Term 2)
  7. Basics of Organisations (Term 2)
  8. IELTS preparation (Term 3)*
  9. Basics of Marketing (Term 3)
  10. Economics (Term 3)

* This is not a ‘true’ module as is not assessed by the centre, but is an external validation of the language level of our students.

Contact us for further course information: application@thebristollanguagecentre.co.uk and feel free to download our brochure to see all our other exciting English programmes available this year!

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