Pre-sessional for LBIC

Our Pre-sessional English for LBIC courses have been designed to provide you with intensive English language support in a friendly and supportive environment prior to your studies with LBIC.

This course offers you the ideal opportunity to improve your academic language skills for your future studies with LBIC and Brunel University, as well as helping you settle into student life in the UK.

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We offer a wide range of start dates, with courses suitable for students with different English Language abilities.

Courses for students planning to begin their academic studies in September 2018

Weeks	Start Date	End Date	Fee	Application Deadline
16	16th May 2018	14th September 2018	£4,690	18th April 2018
12	13th June 2018	14th September 2018	£3,550	16th May 2018
10	27th June 2018	14th September 2018	£2,980	30th May 2018
6	25th July 2018	14th September 2018	£1,840	26th June 2018

Courses for students planning to begin their academic studies in January 2019

Weeks	Start Date	End Date	Fee	Application Deadline
19	25th July 2018	21st December 2018	£5,795	27th June 2018
11	26th September 2018	21st December 2018	£3,410	22nd August 2018
7	24th October 2018	21st December 2018	£2,170	26th September 2018

Courses for students planning to begin their academic studies in May 2019


Weeks	Start Date	End Date	Fee	Application Deadline
34	25th July 2018	10th May 2019	£10,200	27th June 2018
26	26th September 2018	10th May 2019	£7,800	22nd August 2018
22	24th October 2018	10th May 2019	£6,710	26th September 2018
14	9th January 2019	10th May 2019	£4,340	5th December 2018
10	6th February 2019	10th May 2019	£3,100	9th January 2019

Non-Teaching Dates and Holidays

We recommend that students only make plans to leave the UK during the longer Brunel Language Centre closure periods of 3 weeks.

Students are advised not to make plans to leave the UK during term time.

Teaching will not take place on the following dates, which include Brunel Language Centre holiday dates and Bank Holidays. Bank Holidays are public holidays and the university and many businesses will be closed on these dates.

26th March to 6th April 2018 (Easter Holiday)

7th to the 18th May 2018

28th May 2018 (Bank Holiday)

27th August 2018 (Bank Holiday)

24th to 28th September 2018

17th December 2018 to 4th January 2019 (Christmas Holiday) - PLEASE NOTE STUDENTS ON ENGLISH COURSES DUE TO FINISH IN DECEMBER 2018 SHOULD ENSURE THEY ARE IN THE UK AND AVAILABLE UP UNTIL THURSDAY 20TH DECEMBER

15th to 26th April 2019 (Easter Holiday)

6th May 2019 (Bank Holiday)

27th May 2019 (Bank Holiday)

26th August 2019 (Bank Holiday)

The course focuses on improving your academic English, covering areas such as:

Pronunciation and Presentation skills
Listening and Note-taking
Seminar skills
Vocabulary workshops

Sample Timetable

Here at the Brunel Language Centre, our aim is to help our students achieve the English Language scores they need to progress onto their chosen LBIC course.

Improving language skills can take time. The length of English Language course that a student requires will be determined by their current English Language level in addition to the entry requirements for their chosen academic course.

To help you decide how many weeks English Language you will need to undertake please use the table available below.

Please note that these are for guidance only. For specific advice please feel free to send your most recent English Language qualification to languagecentre@brunel.ac.uk

Entry Requirements for LBIC Courses 2017/8

To apply for a LBIC Pre-sessional course you must have:

A current offer for an LBIC course (if you have not yet done so, you can apply here)
Met all the academic requirements for LBIC, excluding English Language
Taken a recognised English qualification, such as IELTS (students who require a Tier 4 visa must hold an 'Academic IELTS for UKVI' certificate)
Checked to see which Pre-sessional course is most suitable for you

Please note: You will only be able to apply for a Tier 4 student visa to undertake a Pre-sessional English course if you take the ‘IELTS for UKVI’ test. Some IELTS centres run both kinds of Academic IELTS so you must make sure you book the UKVI recognised Academic IELTS called ‘IELTS test for UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) purposes’.

For more information please contact us here