{"id":1745,"date":"2025-06-23T13:17:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T12:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:17:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T12:17:35","slug":"what-is-a-foundation-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/2025\/06\/23\/what-is-a-foundation-year\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a foundation year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A foundation year might be the perfect first step for you if you\u2019re thinking about university, but not quite ready for a full degree course.<\/p>\n<p>A foundation year gives you an extra year to build your skills, grow your confidence, and get ready for Year 1 of your chosen degree.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also ideal if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you don\u2019t yet have the right qualifications<\/li>\n<li>you\u2019re not quite ready to dive into degree-level study<\/li>\n<li>or you\u2019re returning to education and want a smooth transition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can give you the support you need to adapt to university life, you\u2019ll gain a strong foundation in your subject, and yes \u2014 you can still apply for financial support from Student Finance England during your foundation year.<\/p>\n<p>We caught up with Terence Stravens who studied a foundation year before progressing to the BA (Hons) Business Management.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u2018I chose this course because I had a successful business, but I was losing clients or money. I decided university would help me understand what it was that I was doing wrong, and how to change that. It\u2019s been an amazing, life changing journey.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to study a foundation year, as even though I had practical experience running a business, I wanted to start from scratch as though I knew nothing. The foundation year really helped me and supported me into education.<\/p>\n<p>To anybody that wants to come to Teesside, I am living proof that it works. The studying and knowledge I have gained has been instrumental to where I am today. Jump straight in!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>For a flexible, supportive way to start your degree a foundation year could be right for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A foundation year might be the perfect first step for you if you\u2019re thinking about university, but not quite ready for a full degree course. A foundation year gives you an extra year to build your skills, grow your confidence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25242,"featured_media":1746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/files\/2025\/06\/me.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}