Improve your English language skills. Build on academic skills such as note-taking, contributing to seminars, giving presentations, handling reading assignments, and writing essays and reports. Reach the correct level of English for your university course.
This course will help you improve your English language and academic skills and develop your knowledge of life at university in the UK.
You'll build on your existing knowledge of English and develop academic skills such as taking notes, giving presentations, and writing essays and reports.
You'll gain a head start by learning about the University before you start your main course and reach the required level of English to be successfully accepted to the University.
You'll build on your existing knowledge of English and develop academic skills, including note-taking, contributing to seminars, giving presentations, reading strategies, and writing essays and reports.
This pre-sessional course uses a variety of teaching methods in order to develop your English skills and prepare you effectively for university study in the UK. You'll participate in small group classes, larger group lectures, and small group or individual tutorials, enabling you to practise your English with the help of both your teacher and your classmates.
You'll receive regular feedback on your work and be well supported to develop your English language to your best level. There's also a large bank of extracurricular material that you can use to help you during your independent study time, which is available on our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), Canvas.
There'll also be lots of opportunities for you to practise your speaking during the course, as well as group projects which you'll take part in, and you'll stay in regular contact with your teacher in tutorials and classes.
By the end of the course, we expect you to have a level of English that's equivalent to an IELTS score of 6.0. This is the English language requirement for most of our courses.
This course is for people who don't speak English as a first language to help you improve your English and be successfully accepted to a main course at the University.
We welcome applications from those with an IELTS or equivalent score of 5.5 or above, with no individual skill score (speaking, listening, reading and writing) lower than 5. If your level of English is higher than IELTS 5.5, you can study this course and achieve a score 0.5 band higher than your entry score.
If your IELTS or equivalent score is lower than 5.5, you can choose one of these alternative courses to improve your English language skills:
If you need any help completing your application, please contact our student support team.