INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION PROGRAMME (IFP)
HOLBORN Institute offers an International Foundation Programme in partnership with QA Higher Education, a UK higher education provider. The programme is designed to enable students to study a programme in Nigeria that builds their subject knowledge and academic English language skills to fully prepare for the study environment and academic culture in the UK.
Upon successfully passing this programme, students are guaranteed an offer of a place on one of a range of undergraduate degrees at one of QA Higher Education’s partner universities in the UK. These include:
For more info on the location and courses offered details of our partner universities, please click on the partner universities listed below.
Key Facts:
- Fosters students’ resilience through increasing personal, academic, and linguistic confidence;
- Ensures students have the required level of English language ability to engage successfully with undergraduate study at a UK university;
- Enhances academic subject knowledge of students and equips them with learning and study skills to support their studies at the undergraduate level;
- Introduces students to learning, teaching, and assessment regimes adopted at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at UK universities;
- Successful students receive unconditional offers to study for a degree programme at one or more of the partner universities.
How will I be taught?
The programme is arranged into modules and students will study across 2 or 3 semesters, depending upon their English language ability.
Semester 0:
Understanding Texts – academic reading and vocabulary development
Academic Communication – listening and speaking in an academic context
Academic Communication – writing in an academic context
Language in Context
Semester 1 and 2:
Developing and Using Language in an Academic Context
Maximising Academic Potential
Mastering Grammar and Vocabulary
Problem Solving Using Mathematics and Statistics
International Business in Context
Fees & finance
Tuition fees:
- 2 semester: N2,500,000
- 3 semester: N3,000,000
These tuition fees cover the cost of your course and teaching materials. Holborn Institute also has accommodation options for those choosing to board.
Accommodation is N1, 000,000/2 semester session
The accommodation costs cover the students’ meals.