Additionally, the UK boasts many international centers of biological excellence, such as the Natural History Museum and Kew Gardens. As the teaching and training here tends to be vocational, you would be provided with a real preparation for employment. While education elsewhere emphasises cognitive development, our universities stress the important of skills development. Courses here aim to develop students' key transferable skills, such as recording and interpreting information and data through practicals and fieldworld. The usefulness of computer literacy, measuring and evaluating samples and observation, are stressed also.
Teaching is done through a combination of lectures, practicals, seminar and project work.
In addition to your academic needs being addressed by your tutors, you would be assigned a personal tutor who would be conscious of the practical needs of young people who may be studying in a foreign country for the first time. Support would be provided whenever it is needed. To study Biology in the UK, you will need to provide evidence of your academic suitability. You will also need to demonstrate a good standard of English. Any concerns over your suitability should be discussed with the Admissions Tutor of the relevant department of the universities in which you are interested, or your local careers advisors.