Challenges Facing Foundation Year Students

Individual Report

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
a) Identify the importance of the foundation year for students and explain why it is important.3
b) Explain the key challenges facing foundation year students...................................................4
c) Discuss how study skills in higher education can help foundation year students overcome
some of these challenges.............................................................................................................5
d) Drawing conclusion from all given points..............................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Higher education is one of the necessary concept for enhancing student learning & idea
generation for gathering student curriculum to learn new things at to the given point of the time.
In the higher education, foundation year is important for students to learn new things and realises
how long they will go when pursuing higher education (Sogunro, 2015).
In the current era, weaker students have more expectancy to learn new knowledge and
chances for the higher education. This individual report will be carry on discussion on an
importance of the foundation year for students and also why it is important. Also, report will be
carry on key challenges facing foundation year students and also how study skills in higher
education can assist to helps foundation year students to reduce these challenges and making of
right conclusion.
MAIN BODY
a) Identify the importance of the foundation year for students and explain why it is important
Foundation year is an entry gate for every student whose aim is to pursue education and
information on a proactive basis. A foundation year can be seen as a stepping stone to enter into
the world of higher education to achieve right qualification to go straight onto degree programs.
Foundation years are mainly found in a universities with provides students with full time course
and education to ensure long term growth in career. Foundation year is the initial stage to start
with higher education in the UK through admission in recognised universities of the Britain. An
importance of the foundation year is to teach importance of the courses what peoples are pursues
and challenges or difficulties to be faced during the courses along with how these challenges can
be overcomes in the given point of time (Kaplan and Haenlein, M., 2016). Especially,
foundation year is one of the essential stage for weak students, so as to makes them confident to
gain success into the life. This is important, because weaker comes with an expectancy to learn
things, meant to learn new skills & knowledge and get an effective success in own career.
Foundation year provides supporting cultures & environment to students so that they would feel
free and makes themselves comfortable to pursue higher education. The development of a
foundation years has opened door for those who may have thought university with an option for
those who have left out their high schooling and looking to pursues further educations.

This is important because higher education have an expectancy to learn new skills, also
knowledge’s as well as information so that student would not have shortage in their career and
let it be run down with an easy or higher satisfaction. With help of the foundation year, it would
be suitable to makes a career more productive to bring out harmony in the life. This is necessary
for foundation year students to learn new things, concept and theories in that, so that they would
learn new things or knowledge to bring out effectiveness in an individual curriculum.
For students who are looking to pursue a higher education must have vision, mission and
values that must be linked to foundation year. It’s a guidance for foundation year students to
makes out the strategies with help of which career expectancy can be raised or required to made
higher career expectancy.
b) Explain the key challenges facing foundation year students
Foundation year is the stepping stone, which a student pursues to enter into future courses
and also do masters courses in given period of time (Ali and et. al., 2016). In the UK's higher
education, students of the foundation year are facing issues related to improper planning by the
university to offers the courses, lack of motivation, less innovation in teaching as well and
sharing information. In UK's higher education, role of foundation year is to makes student learn
about the basic of the courses and enables skills and competencies to understand courses for
effectively and prominently. The key challenges facing by foundation year students are as
follows:
Recruitment and diversity: In the foundation year, there is the recruitment of
professional lectures to new comers and who also have right skills and abilities to get interacts
with foundation students (Guerrero and et. al., 2015). Hence, this is the major challenges faced
by foundation year student to get interacts with good and effective lectures to learn new things
from them. Also, lack of action plan in planning for foundation courses is also one critical issue
with foundation year students. Also, lack of the diversity in learning cultures is a critical which is
acting as demotivating factors for the foundation year students to learn or choose their courses in
given time period. Effective manpower who were assigned responsible to teach foundation
student are not even qualified to do so. Also, universities focus on academic on UK is also
declined and due to this, foundation ear students are not their wants effectively.
Profit and status: Now a days, higher education has become sources of earning profit by
universities through high fees and unnecessary expenses from students and their parents. By

focusing on cost and profits, level of education has decreased and due to this foundation year
students are facing issue due to lack of teaching and serving education. In UK, higher education
is necessary to given importance and relevancy to the people who pursuing education and skills
for their future betterment. Also, higher education programs such as master, diploma are need to
be teach with increased relevancy of an education are need to be given higher importance for
business operations.
Summary: This was realised that committees and universities association are required to
plan for program development to be teach in an effective manner (Becker and et. al., 2017).
University who are pursued to given higher education to the student must have their focus on
higher education rather than earning profit or money out of the courses.
c) Discuss how study skills in higher education can help foundation year students overcome
some of these challenges
Today, skills are need to be with everyone whether students, working person or any defined
learner. This is because, it would help an individual to accomplish what he/she wants to be
achieve in the life. Especially from student who are the aspiring youth need to have proper skills
and competencies when they are pursuing higher education. In the university, higher education is
considered as sources for bringing into harmony and kind of happiness to the person. Skill such
as communication, interpersonal and analytical skill is one necessary for foundation students, as
it demand awareness and growth of the person to be accomplishes in given period of time. Study
skills such as effective reading, organised, writing and speaking, if having proper in any student,
it would help university to focus on developing infrastructures for the students of the higher
education on a larger basis (Bunce and et. al., 2017). Also, this will helps foundation year
students to gather and grow their interest to learn more. This kind of urge will helps universities
to invest heavily in building infrastructures for graduation students, so that they would learn
more. Higher level skill will puts emphasises and pressure on the university to changes standard
of providing education and knowledge’s. Interest in the higher education will helps university to
learn more and high to gather objectives of the social development on a major side of business.
Skill will inspired the university to invest more in providing effective knowledge and also
education to survive in society and creates self-brand image of an institution. This was realised
that, it is necessary for university to adopt right strategies and action plan for taking and
implementing programs or courses for higher education student for their own development as

well as enrichments of the career and professional enrichment for longer time period. These
skills must be gather by every individual who are pursuing, so that people should achieve their
vision and goals in minimum time. Foundation year student with skills will get their harmony
and peace in its career and also learn new things or information or knowledge’s. With higher
skill, university would get a kind of support and suitability with the help of which they can bring
change for foundation year student to learn or adapts new things. (O'Flaherty and Phillips, C.,
2015).
Students are here advised to rise their current study skills and competencies, so that
university should their need to learn and grow to provide long term education program for career
development or changes.
d) Drawing conclusion from all given points
Foundation year student are long aspiring youth, whose motive is to pursue long term study
and education for brings out harmony and full-fledged career in its career. Universities plays the
bigger role in providing education to these foundation students, so that they would grow them to
brings harmony and richness in its future for the purpose of their establishment and career
development for longer period of time. University must have investment budget and funds on
providing infrastructures and staff for offering quality education, so that, they would feel
confident while sharing students with a quality education in given period of time. Student’s kind
of the awareness is important, because it would be worthless, if students of the foundation will
no puts its focus on acquiring knowledge or information from that supporting system. This was
realised that committees and universities association are required to plan for program
development to be teach in an effective manner (Ben-David, 2017). University who are pursued
to given higher education to the student must have their focus on higher education rather than
earning profit or money out of the courses.
Also, committees based scenario where changes can be brought in people, so that they
would feel free to ask their opinion and also results in making the learning and development of
skills on a proactive basis. Society as a whole also puts in focus on bringing kind of regulation,
so as to enhance sources of the motivation to the foundation year’s students. Supporting sources
such as books, magazines are necessary for students to learn and gain more.

CONCLUSION
From the above report, it is concluded that, higher education system of a UK is suffering
with an issue of lack of diversity and handling education effectively. Without support of proper
resources or lack of strategies, it would be difficult to manage foundation programs for students
to gather resources in an effective period of time. Higher education is very necessary for
everyone who are pursuing the foundation year for their own career in the given point of time.
Also, it is declared as essential for university to offers wide ranges of courses, so as to lead an
effective sharing and transferring of the higher education from one person to another. Thus, it is
necessary for the student to create their own interest while pursuing any higher courses for a
longer period of time. Thus, foundation year has proved important for student to gather
sustainable for own career.

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