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 and start the course in September or January.
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, also starting in September or January.
Academic Structure
You will study core subjects, with all other Foundation students, plus the following modules.
Brighton IT Foundation course:
Systems Analysis
Understand elements of the systems cycle: analysis, design, implementation and evaluation.
Web Design
Study the fundamentals of web page design.
Databases and Coding
Learn about the theory and applications of databases and coding.
Business Mathematics
Develop basic algebraic skills.
Business Start-up & Human Resources Management
Learn about the key challenges involved in setting up and managing a business.
Marketing & Operations Management
Explore business start-up through real-life examples.
Cambridge Computing Foundation course:
Systems Analysis
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) students 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.
Pure Maths
Functions including the modulus and exponential functions; logarithms; series; the equations of lines; solving trigonometric equations; basic differentiation and integration and their applications; data handling including histograms, mean, mode, median and standard deviation.
"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* | ![]() |
| Queen Mary, University of London* | ![]() |
| 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 2011
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 |
| Saleh Iliyasu Maitala | Nigeria | 83% | Software Engineering | Sheffield |
| Alex Morozov | Chechnya | 80% | Electronics & Computer Engineering | Surrey |
| Man Ting Cheung | Hong Kong | 76% | Computer Science | Southampton |
| Auwal Sani Haliru | Nigeria | 73% | IT Management for Business | Manchester |
| Beybulat Magomatov | Russia | 71% | Robotics | West England |





