Foundation Year Student Skills and Challenges

This assignment explores the importance of transferable skills for successful higher education. It delves into the specific challenges faced by foundation year students, particularly those from widening-participation backgrounds. The report also highlights effective study skills that can help these students overcome challenges and thrive in their academic journey.

STUDY SKILLS FOR HIGHER
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
1. Identification of the importance of foundation year for students from widening participation
background...................................................................................................................................1
2. Description on the key challenges faced by foundation year students....................................3
3. Discussion on how study skill in high education assist foundation year study to overcome
these challenges...........................................................................................................................4
4. Conclusion based on key points...............................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic skill encourage the students to become the more efficient learner. Therefore,
this skill will be inclusive of critical thinking, note taking and highly transferable that all aids to
have vital success in career (Assiter, 2017). Thus, academic skills are needed to be improved in
terms to the reading, writing and mathematics.
be the successful graduate, there is need to develop the high academic skill among the students.
Thus, present report is based on study skill for the higher education. Furthermore, report
will cover the following activities as significance of the foundation year student key challenges
facing by the foundation year students. Lastly, it is to define that how study skill in higher
education can help foundation student in order to overcome these challenges.
1. Identification of the importance of foundation year for students from widening participation
background.
The main goals of foundation year student is to ensure that students can able to indulge in
more than their educational syllabi. It is one of the effective term that gives the understanding
about the fundamental subjects (Student experiences of foundation degrees in further and higher
education, 2015). This assists the students coming from different education system around the
world align their qualification to the systematic education system in the country. Improving the
widening participation is one of the core strategic objectives of the higher education with the
number of measures inclusive of payment of financial incentive to the universities. Widening
participation is one of the strategic objective that relates with the higher education funding
council for the England (Drew and Bingham, 2017). It is the pursuing policy that through the
number of the measures,
With help of widening participation the study can allow to prepare them for higher
education. It is one of the strategic objectives of the higher education funding council for
England. Thus, purpose of this study is to determine the analytical review of the educational
innovation. Henceforth, effective innovation information and media services.
on is the scale that aids to develop high quality learning outcomes across the system. With the
help of effective learning theory and practices the educational innovation can be done in the
systematic manner (Assiter, 2017). The foundation courses act as the link between the current
qualification and UK universities undergraduate entry requirements. Therefore, this has to be
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designed in order to full fill the academic gap and by setting up culture preparation for the
university. This is the programme that has specially formulated for the international students.
Therefore, this also aids to improve the employment prospectus. Hence, the universities
are engaged with the prospective students and to enhance their learning foundation knowledge is
to be given in appropriate manner. Degree of foundation offers the number of the vocational
focus and opportunities for the practice and work experience as compare to the academic
honours degree (Van Hees, Moyson and Roeyers, 2015). Therefore, better foundation knowledge
aids to provide the better knowledge to the students. This aids to perform the activities in better
and proficient mode. It provides the self directed learning to the student so that they can get high
level success in their academic career.
With the help of undergoing through widening participation the students can able to
entering into the higher education. It is one of the strategic objectives of the higher education
funding council. Therefore, it aims to address discrepancies in order to take up higher education
opportunities. Foundation year knowledge plays the greater role in terms to enhance the learning
of the student. Better learning aids to believes the progress to the higher education (Drew and
Bingham, 2017). Hence, it can be said that the foundation course allows to develop skills to
success in the tertiary eduction. Thus, it is the degree that leads to have intermediate higher
educational qualification in terms to delivered better process.
Therefore, the following are the key benefit of he foundation course for international student-
 Better language proficiency- International foundation programmes aids to improve their
English ability as well as academic English skill that includes how to write essay and
academic vocabulary (Hryciw, Tangalakis and Best, 2017). Therefore, foundation year
program aids to carry out the things in the proper manner.
 Increased chances of admission to prestigious universities- The foundation
programme are highly likely to get the universities they wish. Thus, better education aids
to have unique advantage over the student. Thus, better foundation program aids to have
the admission in prestigious universities.
 Relevant qualification for future studies- It is relates with the specific set of skill and
knowledge that crucial for university admission. This will help the student to get unique
advantage over it.
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 Reduce cultural shock- In the universities, the student can interact with wide cultural
shock inclusive of different academic system (Van Hees, Moyson and Roeyers, 2015). At
the foundation level number of the student come from the international platform and they
are having different culture and this leads to have the social exclusion. Hence, removing
cultural barriers aids to bring systematic working performance.
2. Description on the key challenges faced by foundation year students
The foundation year student face the number of the challenges and this mainly affects the
growth of the students. In this term, student meet with the number of the international student
and they cannot perform well due to number of the issues. Foundation year of the programme
gives the core of understanding about the subjects. This is mainly set up in terms to fill the gap of
that school and universities needs to address.
The one of the major challenges faced by the education system in the UK is mainly
affected by the deficit based mind set (Alam and McLoughlin, 2018). This things aids to fill the
gaps in the knowledge that school and universities needs to address. Therefore, their learning
mainly get affected by the surrounding and issues of social exclusion. This can hamper the
overall environment of learning within the universities (Student experiences of foundation
degrees in further and higher education, 2015). Thus, it can be stated that the UK is well known
for its education and it has excellence track record in the graduate employability with 93.4%.
Foundation course provides degree to the only few number of the rage of universities. It
is one of the core aspect that foundation course do not brings students as the high level.
Foundation year programme is the academically challenging. Hence, it can be stated that college
courses require the more efforts as compare to the high classes school did. Lack of direction is
the most common issues in the first year and it impact the overall working and failure to develop
key competencies and behaviours affects the overall working of the enterprise.
The student of the UK also faced the issues in context of the social issues and this also
impact the knowledge of the student in the greater aspects. Poor communication better the
students and teachers also affects the learning of the student in the greater aspect (Student
experiences of foundation degrees in further and higher education, 2015).. This also leads to
impact the overall learning of the student and this affects the growth of the child. Due to poor
communication student do not say what they feel and what they are getting.
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In order to bring improvement in the widening participation, changing in the universities
affects the learning of the students. It is defined as strategy that aims to put focus over the
discrepancies in the higher educational opportunities between the different under represented
groups of students. This thing affect their overall learning. This all things leads to the depression
and this is the persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. First year foundation student face
the challenges, pressure and anxieties and this all factors leads to cause them overwhelmed
(Gokhale and Machina, 2018). In the foundation year student mainly face the time management
issues that affect the overall performance of the students. Therefore, student need to enhance
their time management skills so that they can conduct their learning in the effective manner.
3. Discussion on how study skill in high education assist foundation year study to overcome
these challenges.
In order to come up this challenges the universities must have the use of deficit model,
that is closely relate with special education in particular manner. Widening-participation to the
higher education is one of the strategic priority for the legal authorities of the United Kingdom.
This is the that aids to define the system tendency to focus on the weakness of the student that is
mostly in the field of learning disability and cognitive impairment. Effective working
environment leads to facilitate the better learning and this promote the good education among the
students. Memory can be improved with the use of enhancement in cognitive abilities and to
enhance in the ability to learn the new information. Cognitive learning defined as learning that is
relate with the active, constructive and long lasting skills (Schneider and Preckel, 2017). This
mainly engaged in the learning process of the student and this aids to conduct the activities in
more better mode.
Therefore, the UK legal authorities mainly focuses over the widening access to the higher
education. Widening access has become the central agenda within the higher education policy in
the last few decades in UK. This has mainly comes into the force due to factor as gender, ethnic
background and social economical circumstances. It is mainly related with the education
inequality due to social exclusion.
Effective supportive working environment aids to facilitate the better education to the
study and this leads to carried out the education activities effectively. In order to overcome the
challenges it is crucial to provide effective support and this is vital in order to achieve better
education achievement. Hence, the tutor student relationship is vital and breakdown in the
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communication and support may have the negative impact over the individual or group.
Technological application can be helpful in terms to have set up the effective learning
environment. By increment in the effectiveness of technological learning can lead to have better
impact on the online learning by having cost reduction. Therefore, new and effective learning
aids to acquire new skill and knowledge that has the huge impact over the learning.
Therefore, it can be stated that in the innovation economy the education becomes the
crucial term in order to undertake the overall learning of the students. Higher education
participation has expanded dramatically in all over the England (Ryan and Zuber-Skerritt, 2017).
In this term, it can be stated that the access to the higher education has became the significant
part of the education provision that leads to conduct the each thing in the better mode. Therefore,
the learning strategies aids to help the student to enhance their learning requirements. Hence,
learning strategies are mainly comprised of self directed involvement that is crucial for
developing the communicative competence.
With the help of providing the better skill, it is crucial to provide the better learning to the
students. Better learning aids to makes an individual practices effective and efficient and this
helps in the have effective student improvement in the curriculum development and assessment.
4. Conclusion based on key points.
Hereby, it can be concluded that skills are the crucial term and it relates with factors as
critical thinking, decision making and conflict resolution. Therefore, academic skills are needed
to be effective so that person can have better learning in the future.
Furthermore, this report has cover the activities as significance of foundation year student
and widening-participation background, key challenges faced by foundation year student and
study skills in the higher education aids to overcome the challenges.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Assiter, A., 2017. Transferable skills in higher education. Routledge.
Drew, S. and Bingham, R., 2017. The guide to learning and study skills: For higher education
and at work. Routledge.
Van Hees, V., Moyson, T. and Roeyers, H., 2015. Higher education experiences of students with
autism spectrum disorder: Challenges, benefits and support needs. Journal of autism
and developmental disorders. 45(6). pp.1673-1688.
Hryciw, D.H., Tangalakis, K. and Best, G., 2017, August. Development of transferable skills in a
low-SES population through peer assisted study sessions. In Proceedings of The
Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education (formerly UniServe
Science Conference) (p. 69).
Alam, S.L. and McLoughlin, C., 2018. E-Citizenship Skills Online: A Case Study of Faculty Use
of Web 2.0 Tools to Increase Active Participation and Learning. In Information and
Technology Literacy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 878-896).
IGI Global.
Gokhale, A. and Machina, K., 2018. Guided Online Group Discussion Enhances Student Critical
Thinking Skills. International Journal on E-Learning. 17(2). pp.157-173.
Schneider, M. and Preckel, F., 2017. Variables associated with achievement in higher education:
A systematic review of meta-analyses. Psychological bulletin. 143(6). p.565.
Ryan, Y. and Zuber-Skerritt, O., 2017. Quality in postgraduate education. Routledge.
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