The Role of Study Skills in UK Higher Education: A Report

This report delves into the significance of study skills within the context of higher education, particularly in the UK. It highlights the benefits of foundational years for students from diverse backgrounds, including improved language proficiency and reduced cultural shock. The report also addresses the challenges faced by students in these programs, such as financial constraints, language barriers, and cultural differences. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of developing effective study skills, like time management, organization, and reading techniques, to overcome these hurdles and maximize learning. The conclusion underscores the role of education in empowering individuals and contributing to economic growth, advocating for the development of adaptable study skills to foster personal and professional advancement.

Study Skills for Higher
Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
A. Benefit and need of foundational year for wide participation backgrounds..........................1
B. Challenges faced by foundational year students ...................................................................3
C. Importance of study skill in higher education them to tackle over hurdles...........................3
D. Summarisation .......................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERNCES ..................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
Education is one of the very important aspect for a successful life as it is not only
consider with acquiring a degree but it much more deeper than that as it helps every individuals
to overcome problems in the daily society and enrich nation economy. The global challenge for
education is not just providing access, but also ensuring progress. By considering and analysing
the current scenario of educational system in UK, they takes an initiative to enhance the concept
of fundamental year which impacted greatly over wide participating background students in
order to raise their standard of living among community (Campbell, Taylor and Douglas, 201.).
However, this report includes the role of foundational year for wide participating backgrounds
students, the challenges which they face during pursuing their course. Finally, render some
relevant and productive suggestion to overcome those threat in order to enrich life style in a
satisfactory level.
MAIN BODY
A. Benefit and need of foundational year for wide participation backgrounds
Currently, in many elite higher education institution in UK, widening participation is
treated largely as an administrative issue. The vast majority of them efforts are directed and
executed by non academic staff housed in an organization administrative centre. Along with this,
they mainly encompasses of lower social economic group and under represented category of
individuals which always seeks for an improvement in their life standard (Westra and Walton,
2015). Thus, foundation year grew in UK as they takes an attempt to find an alternative approach
for various kinds of under privileged or undeveloped communities in order to provide them a life
of richness, equality and knowledgeable career. However, this program is a UK inspired study
course which is mainly developed to fill the gap between current level of qualification and
knowledge as well as the steady needed to be admitted to undergraduate or post graduate degree
at an international universities. Moreover, it target both local students and international
candidates from all across the globe regardless of country of origin. Thus, it is very useful for
wide participation background students so that they can focus on particular interest and acquired
the best chance to become qualified for admission. However, it is run by large number of
universities for students who have the ability to undertake a degree but don't have the

qualification to go straight on to a degree course. Some of the benefits which widening
participation receives with foundational year are explained below:
Better language proficiency: It is regarded as one of the biggest threat among students of
UK universities specially for widening participation group because they are mostly from lower
socio economic, issue of disability and many more which face an issue to adjust with diverse
culture environment. Thus, foundational year help them to improve their English ability as well
as academic language skill which involves vocabulary and it help them to communicate
effectively during pursuing studies and also in daily life (Carlson and McChesney, 2016).
Reduce cultural shock: By spending an almost a year in a country and acquiring
education among diverse culture atmosphere, it help them to understand and determine different
category of people in order to generate healthy learning experience. However, foundation year
course gives students a lot of chances to experience local culture and customs. Moreover, they
will be enable to adjust with academic environment, teaching system, types of assessment before
they start an undergraduate course.
Getting into the right mindset:It act as a proper guide to students as they were confused
about career as well as they face lack of confidence, will power, believe in yourself and many
more. Along with this, it arrange proper training program in which they takes an initiative to
identify individual skill or potentiality and advise them properly so that they can get clear picture
about their career and can expertise in a chosen field ( Phillips, 2018).
Direct access to great universities: The another benefit which they provide is it increase
the chances of admission to prestigious universities. This is because the information which
foundation year render is innovative, creative and productive that lead an individual to explore
them in their professional and personal ground in an efficacious and prompt manner. Hence,
scholars who completed a foundation year are considered to be fully qualified to start an
undergraduate degree in UK university.
However, it is an essential element for UK educational system because it enable widening
participation students to improve their overall performance of career as well as to tackle over all
hurdles related to social , personal ground. By this, each of them can easily build a positive
relationship with diverse culture of scholars as well as aid a nation to overcome injustice,
poverty, inequality from communities or societies.

B. Challenges faced by foundational year students
Although it is very impressive and productive concept for widening participation,
international students as well as local students so that they can enrich their potentiality or hidden
skills and contribute their best effort towards the growth of an economy. Yet, it contain weakness
which effect students to prosper in their professional and academic career. The main
disadvantage is that paying for an extra year (Hölz, 2015). This will not necessarily cost as much
as the degree course but it will be a cost as well as it contain living expense which scholars have
to account for. Along with this, in order to continue their studies students cannot get loan which
restrict widening participation students to study in foundational year programme.
Language barrier: It is the most basic and simplistic use of the term, is the lack of
common language that prevents two or more people from speaking to or understanding each
other through verbal communication. Moreover, it is significant because they are often an
impediment to progress. Even worse, sometime this barrier cause misunderstanding that lead to
conflict, frustration, offense and hurt feelings among foundational year students which hold them
back from being flexible and to build a new relationship in order to enhance their learning
experience within an university.
Cultural barrier: In foundation year, it encompasses different culture category of people
as they include wide participation background students, international and local students who
belongs to various regions, beliefs, values that sometime become biggest challenge them to join
an educational system. Along with this,
Knowledge gap: Under this, mature students mainly feels insecure and not having
enough confident to re join for academic education. This is because they are having fears of
managing complex situation as in foundation year program there are different groups of students
who are diverse culture. Along with this, they face language issue which create obstacle in them
to communicating or mingling with each other.
C. Importance of study skill in higher education them to tackle over hurdles.
It is nothing but is an array of skills which tackle the process of organising and taking in
new information, retaining content or dealing with assessment. They include impressive reading,
concentration technique, expeditious note taking. Along with this, the core function of enriching
study skill is to help students in order to maximise learning process. It just require ample amount

of time and dedication for enable scholars to experience foundation year or higher education
successfully. Thus, some of the ways to enhance study skill are mentioned below:
Time management: In this, every students schedule task by assigning them proper amount
of time according to their need or requirements. Along with this, it enable them to planning about
studies to avoid wasting time by performing all task in time bas well as it assist them to paring
time for all activities which is to utilized purposefully (Kontowski, 2017). By this, each
foundational year students can utilise their skills properly and can control over stress, worries,
anxiety, workload etc. Therefore, study skill promote them assistance them to precis an
importance of personal study timetable that lead the to set their goal and also aid foundational
year candidate to order the time so that they should not find trouble in following learning
cognition.
Getting Organised to study: It is one of the main tool fro mature students because
majority of them will be facing an issue of learning gap which makes them more lethargic and
close minded personality. Thus, an adapting study skill enable them to be more systematic and
organised which lead them to acquire novel or innovative ideas in order to become more
challenging or creative personality among existing community or society. It is advised as an
foremost method for processing study skill as it enable an individuals to overcome over their
confusion regarding where, when to study and also it help students to widening the network of
contacts.
Impressive Reading: As an individuals learns to manage time, then they can easily keep
their time for improving their speaking or reading potentiality. Due to acquiring study skill, each
individuals takes an initiative to find a time for reading several articles or journals so that they
can enlarge their thinking capability and also can expand knowledge level. By this, they will not
be able to find any kind of impediment while dealing with convoluted condition and it allow the
to implement best strategic decision in an awful and creative learning experience (Mukhalalati,
2016).
D. Summarisation
There are various core academic skills such as proper communication , critical thinking
etc and the purpose of developing core academic skills is to make them ready for future which is
the part of holistic framework which is need to be identified, described and organised. The
development of core academics skills has focus on primary, secondary and post secondary

general education curricula. The development of core skill is necessary for maintaining base for
the future. The development of scientific reasoning is important because these evidence based
reasoning skills belongs to central field of study and has wide application in context for job.
There are many practical challenges are involved at the process of standardised assessment of
speaking and listening which are responsible for narrow accountability focus. The higher
proficiency in core academic skills results in later effort to develop specialised expertise from
major courses and training experience (Mohamed, 2016).
CONCLUSION
It has been summarised from the preceding report that education is a coercive determiner
for every personnel as it fortify their mindset and help them to acquire easily that help them to
deal with peculiar situation which they face throughout life. Moreover, the operation of
foundation year benefit mature students, international scholars and under representative groups
by furnish them tremendous possibility to intensify hidden talents and boost their morale.
Along with this, it is a multi dimensional conception as it reflect over enrich individuals skill or
knowledges and also raises nation economy. Apart from this, it enable them to acquire various
study skill like time management, enhancing critical thinking, arranging work in a very
structured manner. BY this, they can enhance their flexibility skill and encourage them to acquire
innovative or creative ideas in order to improve their professional and personal career in an
impressive or productive manner.

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