The score is made up of six categories which cover curriculum design, teaching and learning assessment, student progression and achievement, support and guidance, learning resources and quality assessment. We are constantly reviewing and putting on new courses in the light of career prospectus for the students of tomorrow. Biology is an area that's going to make very big advances in the next few years. BSE, GM food and human gene research are constantly in the headlines. The Department of Biosciences is staffed by enthusiastic and talented teachers, all of whom are research active, so that the research that we do today you learn about tomorrow.
Biosciences is the fastest developing branch of science today.
This enables us to offer an industrial outlook to our courses through personal experience and through the use of industrial lecturers. If you are an undergraduate student it is also possible to do a sandwich year . At least a quarter of our students spend a year out working in industry, and they have worked in places like Pfizer, Glaxo Welcome, the Genome Centre in Cambridge, Metropolitan Police forensic science laboratories or Roche in Switzerland. Because you learn transferable skills We think it is important that you learn about communicating science as well as doing it. In each year of our BSc courses you study specific skills modules.