**Foundation Year**
Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, youll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, wit...
**Foundation Year**<br/>Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, youll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that youd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.<br/><br/>Please note, we do not currently offer this Foundation Year for international students.<br/><br/>**Midwifery**<br/><br/>Qualify as a confident and compassionate midwife. Gain the clinical skills and knowledge to provide holistic, safe, and effective care for women, newborn infants, and their families.<br/><br/>**Why choose this course?**<br/><br/><br/>- Top 20 for Nursing and Midwifery (Complete University Guide, 2023)<br/><br/><br/>- Nursing and Midwifery Council approved programme<br/><br/><br/>- Midwifery at Keele is Top 5 in England for student positivity* NSS 2023 (BROAD-BASED UNIVERSITIES) *based on overall student satisfaction, which is an average score across 27 questions asked in the NSS<br/><br/><br/>- Eligible students can apply for the £5,000 NHS grant<br/><br/><br/>- Top 10 for Midwifery (Guardian University League Table, 2023)<br/><br/><br/>Explore the fundamentals of midwifery and develop your understanding of the whole maternity journey for mothers and infants. Gain clinical skills to support childbearing women, newborn infants and families through pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, birth, postpartum and the early weeks of life. You will study the importance of communication in care provision and in building professional relationships.<br/><br/>Your training will ensure you can anticipate, prevent, and respond with confidence to the additional needs and complications that can arise during pregnancy. Your practice will be underpinned by evidence to ensure that you are delivering high-quality and safe care to women and infants at every stage of their journey.<br/><br/>As a midwife you will respect womens individual circumstances and advocate their wishes where appropriate. You will support mothers to confidently use their voice throughout their pregnancy, delivery and beyond, but also enable them to provide nurturing care to their infant.
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Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
4 Years
Start Date
09/2025
Campus
Main Site
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Course Code
B721
Institution Code
K12
Points of Entry
Foundation
120 UCAS Tariff points from at least 1 Level 3 qualification
120 UCAS Tariff points from at least 1 Level 3 qualification
120 UCAS Tariff points from at least 1 Level 3 qualification
GCSE English at grade C (or 4) OR Level 2 Functional Skills English AND GCSE Maths at grade C (or 4) or Level 2 Functional Skills Maths
120 UCAS Tariff points from at least 1 A level
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