Pre-Sessional English

The QA Higher Education Pre-Sessional English (PSE) programme is designed to develop your English skills to meet the English language entry requirements of a QA partner university programme, at the foundation, undergraduate or postgraduate level. The course duration options are setup with your destination course English language requirements in mind to help you to progress.The programme combines English language skills development with academic study skills required for you to successfully study at a UK university. It also allows you to develop social English language skills, both in class and outside class (online: though social activities and tasks).The programme is for those who would like to progress to a university-level programme with one of QA Higher Education’s partner universities and need to develop their English language skills to meet the required entry-level. It is suitable for both international learners and some home students whose first language is not English.In addition, the PSE is suitable for those of you who would like to improve your English and experience and understand how academic English is learnt and applied in a university context. It is a good way to experience what it is like to study academic English. Pre-Sessional English (PSE) can be studied in conjunction with an IELTS prep course to help get ready for an IELTS exam.Pre-Sessional English is suitable for students who wish to study atfoundation levelundergraduate levelpostgraduate level