Whether in Lisbon, Paris, or Amsterdam, your week at FORWARD COLLEGE will be intense. You can expect to work between 45 and 50 hours in total. But contrary to most curricula, it will comprise of highly diversified activities as part of our three building blocks: the Academic Bachelor of your choice, the Bachelor in Business Leadership and the Community Life in FORWARD Homes and Learning.
A distance bachelor's degree designed and accredited by the University of London (LSE, King's...) supported by on campus qualitative teaching.
A Forward Bachelor combining project-based learning, digital training and personal development.
A 3 year learning expedition in 3 countries with dedicated student Homes and Learning spaces
Activities for your Academic Bachelor will mostly take place in the morning - and some evenings - while you will spend most afternoons on your Business Leadership Bachelor. Each week will start by a briefing to reflect on the previous week and present your learning goals for the coming week.
Weekly academic activities include:
To secure high grades in your academic Bachelor, you are trained each week in exam conditions.
You will choose the small group sessions you want to participate according to potential difficulties you may have encountered during the week.
Personalised feedback is essential for improving your academic performance. Your tutor will help you identify the strong points of your previous exam but also your development needs. Together, you will define specific exercises to ensure your progress on these fronts.
Weekly Leadership activities include:
This workshop will introduce you to new methodologies and tools to take your project one step further. You will be able to train on these new tools and self assess your progress
After having been introduced to a new method, your team will define its plan with the support of your Projet coach in order to get organised and produce effective work during the week.
The nature of your fieldwork will be highly diverse. Depending on the nature and the stage of the project, you may engage in a literature review, a survey, interviews, data analysis, website development, design activities, etc.
You will present your progress to your Project coach to make sure you have reached a new step and acquired the skills taught in the Learning Session. It is also the opportunity to exchange on team dynamics.
As part of the Leadership experience, students select the personal activities and clubs (sports, music, visual arts, book club, debating...) they have chosen to lead or take part in.
The agenda below is illustrative as it also includes such personal activities planned freely (e.g. sports, clubs, study time…) that will contribute to your growth and engagement as part of the FORWARD Community.
This illustrative agenda includes compulsory activities (in orange and navy blue) and freely planned activities (such as student clubs) that are nevertheless accounted for in the Community Expedition component of the programme.
This agenda gives you a sense of how flipped classroom works: after a short daily briefing you will start by exploring the assigned learning material before attending the class.
Learn individually based on your daily curated materials (readings, videos, exercises) for 90 min
What you will gain:
Join your Learning Team (2 to 4 students) who’ve studied through the same material
What you will gain:
On-line individual assessment on the material you’ve just learned
What you will gain:
What you will gain:
Collective lunch in the communal kitchen/Campus’ yard/park or outside
You will work with your team to plan your weekly fieldwork based on the challenge that has been set for the week and the methodologies you have discovered. You will discuss this roadmap with your Leadership Fellow before kick starting your fieldwork.
Each week your team will have to go one step forward in its project development. You will be guided thanks to curated material + 1 initiation workshop and 1 progress review workshop. The step of the week is Issue Analysis that allows you to disaggregate a complex problem into more actionable issues.
What you will gain:
Your teamwork will be highly diversified from one week to another: field exploration (organising focus groups, interviewing..), production of analysis (literature review on the issue you want to tackle, best practices review…), ideation exercises (brainstorming…), prototyping, recruiting volunteers… As a result, the way you will work with your team will vary (individual, sub groups, full team) from one week to another.
What you will gain:
This weekly session is the opportunity for personalised learning with your Academic Tutor: review your strengths and development needs based on your last assessments, share challenges you have encountered and set the direction for the week ahead.
A healthy spirit in a healthy body! You will set your own objectives and be able to join sports groups to support your continuous training. Forward will negotiate access to sports facilities in the vicinity of our Homes.
Occasionally, you will have the opportunity to explore the city and learn about the culture of the conutry you're studying in
Whether in Lisbon, Paris, or Amsterdam, your week at FORWARD COLLEGE will be intense. You can expect to work between 45 and 50 hours in total. But contrary to most curricula, it will comprise of highly diversified activities as part of our three building blocks: the Academic Bachelor of your choice, the Bachelor in Business Leadership and the Community Life in FORWARD Homes and Learning.
A distance bachelor's degree designed and accredited by the University of London (LSE, King's...) supported by on campus qualitative teaching.
A Forward Bachelor combining project-based learning, digital training and personal development.
A 3 year learning expedition in 3 countries with dedicated student Homes and Learning spaces
1:10 faculty member per student
15 student / class
Activities for your Academic Bachelor will mostly take place in the morning - and some evenings - while you will spend most afternoons on your Business Leadership Bachelor. Each week will start by a briefing to reflect on the previous week and present your learning goals for the coming week.
Weekly academic activities include:
To secure high grades in your academic Bachelor, you are trained each week in exam conditions.
You will choose the small group sessions you want to participate according to potential difficulties you may have encountered during the week.
Personalised feedback is essential for improving your academic performance. Your tutor will help you identify the strong points of your previous exam but also your development needs. Together, you will define specific exercises to ensure your progress on these fronts.
Weekly Leadership activities include:
This workshop will introduce you to new methodologies and tools to take your project one step further. You will be able to train on these new tools and self assess your progress
After having been introduced to a new method, your team will define its plan with the support of your Projet coach in order to get organised and produce effective work during the week.
The nature of your fieldwork will be highly diverse. Depending on the nature and the stage of the project, you may engage in a literature review, a survey, interviews, data analysis, website development, design activities, etc.
You will present your progress to your Project coach to make sure you have reached a new step and acquired the skills taught in the Learning Session. It is also the opportunity to exchange on team dynamics.
As part of the Leadership experience, students select the personal activities and clubs (sports, music, visual arts, book club, debating...) they have chosen to lead or take part in.
The agenda below is illustrative as it also includes such personal activities planned freely (e.g. sports, clubs, study time…) that will contribute to your growth and engagement as part of the FORWARD Community.
This illustrative agenda includes compulsory activities (in orange and navy blue) and freely planned activities (such as student clubs) that are nevertheless accounted for in the Community Expedition component of the programme.
This agenda gives you a sense of how flipped classroom works: after a short daily briefing you will start by exploring the assigned learning material before attending the class.
