**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, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.**International Students**For International Students, Foundation Years are delivered through our dedicated on-campus provider, Keele University International College. To find out more, visit https://kuic.keele.ac.uk/**International Development**Understand and tackle human, economic and environmental inequalities to broaden your perspectives and drive positive change in response to society's global challenges. Our innovative BA will equip you with the knowledge and practical skills required to make a difference in the ever expanding field of international development.**Why choose this course?**- Explore a specific area of development practice and create a tailored path to suit your objectives- Our institutional focus on sustainability and tackling global challenges enables us to offer theme-specific modules- 4th in the UK for Politics and International Relations (National Student Survey, 2021)- Winner of Global Sustainability Institution of the Year (Green Gown Awards, 2021)- Build your professional network by attending our alumni and visiting speaker series eventsInternational development is a field dedicated to improving the living conditions of the world's population and is essential to comprehend the moral, practical and political key challenges that affect the world, such as climate change and inequality.In response to these key challenges, our exciting interdisciplinary programme combines the study of international relations and human geography to neatly encapsulate the practical, subject-based and analytical knowledge that is pertinent for those aspiring to pursue careers in international development (practice, policy, or academia), charity, media or policy sectors. Our interdisciplinary course encourages you to explore the significance of international relations and human geography as subjects in addition to the different approaches and methods used in each.**About Keele**Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.

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