
I.T. & Computing Foundation Course
The Bellerbys I.T. Foundation course is ideal for students wishing to study Computing or Information Techology related degrees at university, including Business Information Systems, Information Management, Information Technology, Computing and Multimedia courses. The course is carefully designed to focus on the academic areas most useful to your future study intentions.
There are two pathways, depending on your future career intentions. For students who wish to work as middle managers or marketing professionals using computers in their daily work at a fairly sophisticated level, including the development of websites, we recommend the Bellerbys Brighton IT Foundation course.
For students who wish to work in the IT industry from IT support through to systems development projects, which may involve a mix of hardware development and software design, we recommend the Bellerbys Cambridge Computing Foundation course.
Academic Structure
You will study core subjects, with all other Foundation students, plus the following modules.
Brighton IT Foundation course:
Computing/Information Technology 2
Elements of the systems cycle - analysis, design, implementation and evaluation, application to a real-life project.
Computing/Information Technology 3 (double module)
HTML vocabulary and code and JavaScript, interactive web page design and creation of interactive forms.
Computing/Information Technology 4
Theory and application surrounding databases, processing, reporting, testing, Visual Basic, functions and procedures.
Business Mathematics
Straight lines and linear equations, set theory and probability, statistics, linear programming, indices and logarithms and experimental laws.
Management Studies 1
Aspects of both marketing, for example mass and niche marketing, product orientation and pricing and market research, and human resource management, including training, motivation and leadership styles.
Management Studies 2
Aspects of the Business Development process are explored from the point of view of developing a business plan, product design & development, production, organisation and management and product evaluation.
Cambridge Computing Foundation course:
Computing/Information Technology 2
Elements of the systems cycle - analysis, design, implementation and evaluation, application to a real-life project.
Introduction to Java
Introduction to the principles and conventions of object-oriented programming using this exciting and rapidly developing language.
Introduction to Robotics
Using a visual programming language (LabVIEW) we develop programmes that control the actions and simple behaviour of standard robots.
Networking
The principles of Local and Wide Area Networking. Students learn the protocols for data transfer and study network security and methods for data storage and backup.
Knowledge Engineering (KE)
KE is at the frontier of modern business computing – the use of expert systems based on declarative programming. Within the module, students will learn the principles that underpin KE.
Maths
This module develops the numeracy and logic skills which underpin the other modules in this course. Students study number bases, basic algebra, calculus, probability and statistics.
"Bellerbys provides an easy link to universities as it has a large number of partner universities, and this makes it stand out from other colleges in the UK."
Olisa Okafor from Nigeria, studying I.T. Foundation
Where Next?
Students who successfully complete the Information Technology Foundation can join the following Bachelor Degree programmes with our partner universities.
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| Anglia Ruskin University | ![]() |
| Aston University | ![]() |
| Bangor University | ![]() |
| University of Brighton | ![]() |
| University of Bristol | ![]() |
| University of Chester | ![]() |
| De Montfort University Leicester | ![]() |
| Durham University | ![]() |
| University of Essex | ![]() |
| University of Hertfordshire | ![]() |
| Keele University | ![]() |
| University of Kent | ![]() |
| Lancaster University | ![]() |
| University of Liverpool | ![]() |
| Liverpool John Moores University | ![]() |
| Loughborough University | ![]() |
| Brunel University* | ![]() |
| University of Greenwich* | ![]() |
| Goldsmiths, University of London* | ![]() |
| University of Kingston, London* | ![]() |
| London Metropolitan University* | ![]() |
| Middlesex University* | ![]() |
| University of Manchester | ![]() |
| Northumbria University | ![]() |
| Oxford Brookes University | ![]() |
| University of Portsmouth | ![]() |
| University of Reading | ![]() |
| University of Sheffield | ![]() |
| University of Southampton | ![]() |
| University of Surrey | ![]() |
| University of Sussex | ![]() |
| University of Sunderland | ![]() |
| Swansea University | ![]() |
| University of York | ![]() |
* Universities in the London area
Class of 2009
We have a number of I.T. Foundation students graduating onto a range of courses at top UK universities, including:
| Student Name | Home Country | Final Grade | Degree Course | University |
| Ehijiele Anthony Agenmonmen | Nigeria | 88% | IT in Organisations | Southampton |
| Hansen Setiady | Indonesia | 85% | Computer Science | Southampton |
| Kah Kent Chan | Malaysia | 85% | Computer Games Programming | Teeside |
| Alia Zhunussova | Kazakhstan | 80% | Creative Computing | Goldsmiths |
| Fai Keong Loi | Macau | 78% | Electronic & Computing Engineering | Arts, London |



