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Originally Posted by sunny
The panic is just starting to set in..... I am starting the Foundation degree in September and going straight into the 2nd year as I have completed my NVQ4with another training provider.
I know the academic writing will be difficult and I am starting to worry. Can anyone give me any advice please. Is anyone doing the same route?
Any advice would be most welcome to calm my nerves!!!!
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Are you sure you are skipping the first year?
I know staff of mine who have the NVQ4 and they were allowed to miss the first assignment of the first year. Even then, they had to attend the lectures and she told me she wished she had done the first assignment as she needed to establish her writing style etc.
They were told they were only allowed to skip the first assignment as an NVQ4 is not the same as a FD Level 4. The Foundation degree is academic, whereas the NVQ4 is not - it is just writing and professinal discussions. She had 4 'A' levels and she said it was a lot harder (but she managed) than she had envisaged. She was given her reading list in July and had read through most of them by the time she started, so she was prepared.
I'm just wondering how you can go into the second year without having done any academic writing/studying/researching journals etc.
I don't wish to worry you, but I have never ever heard of this. I know lecturers who try and persuade students not to take the concession of skipping one assignment in the first year as the shock is even greater when they have to start at the second and everyone has got their nerves and writing style 'sorted out'. Vocational qualifications are nothing like a formal academic degree.
Are you sure the university are not under the impression that you have done the FD Level 4, as some students do transfer. I'd check, as if you go in September and a mistake has been made all course years will be full.
I've re-read it and you have written NVQ4, did you mean to write FD Level 4?
Perhaps other members on this site know something a little more recent than me?