Food Bioscience

Description

The food industry is the single largest manufacturing industry in the UK, employing in the region of 500,000 people with a turnover of over Â60 billion per annum. Job prospects for food bioscientists are exceptionally good, both in the UK and internationally. As a food bioscientist, you will have an excellent career path with employers in food manufacturing, research, food safety, process development and new product development. You need only look at the stock market and see the number of food manufacturers listed to get some idea of the size of this industry. Your skills will encompass areas as diverse as genetics, marketing, microbiology and nutrition combined with key industry skills and an understanding of food legislation.

Why Choose This Programme?

Glasgow Caledonian University is the only institution in Scotland offering this innovative programme and we arguably have the strongest emphasis of any university in this country on food and its development. This programme fulfils the requirement for membership of the UK Institute of Food Science and Technology. We focus on the modern scientific techniques that are now extensively employed in this dynamic industry to provide the safe, nutritious and diverse food ranges that the modern consumer demands. As a highly qualified graduate, you will be educated in both the classical aspects of food science such as chemistry and nutrition, applied aspects such as food product marketing and more modern techniques such as gene manipulation. Glasgow Caledonian has an excellent reputation as a major centre for food research and training in the UK.

Career Opportunities

The demand for graduates who understand the technologies associated with the food industries is getting larger every year. You may wish to focus on research and development, product and process development, marketing or production. Regardless of the discipline, there are more jobs than ever before. We are regularly approached by some of the UKâs largest companies actively seeking our graduates.

Employment Details

Our graduates have excellent career prospects in food manufacturing; food production; food safety; research and development and marketing and as a food nutritionist or advisor.
The Programmes will furnish students with graduate attributes that will enhance their employability. Graduates should be equipped with academic skills such as critical thinking and analytical capacities, self-confidence, creativity, project management and presentation skills. These attributes go beyond the professional knowledge and skills providing graduates with a wide range of expertise, leading to a broad range of career options.
In the food and beverage industries employment in food manufacturing and production, food product research and food process development are available as well as in the area of food and water safety. You may also work as a bioscientist in industry working as part of a research team in biological product research and manufacture or conducting research in government, health service and university laboratories. Laboratory based employment is also available in public health laboratories, hospital laboratories and in environmental management
Using the full range of graduate attributes, non-laboratory based careers include teaching, marketing, biotechnology/medical sales and technical support. Graduates have also found careers in coordinating clinical drugs trials and in scientific publishing.
A degree in bioscience can also lead to further postgraduate study.

Detailed Course Facts

Application deadline As soon as possible Tuition fee

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Not specified Start date September 2015 Duration full-time 48 months Languages Take an IELTS test

• English

Delivery mode On Campus Educational variant Full-time Intensity Flexible

Course Content

Year 1: Foundation Modules in Biological Sciences.
Year 2: Foundation and Intermediate Modules in Biological Sciences, Nutrition
and Food Science.
Year 3: Modules including: Food Science, Food Commodities, Applied Microbiology, Chemical and Instrumental Analysis of Foods, Nutrition and Health and Essentials of Molecular Biology.
Year 4: Students undertake an industrial placement in a food or food-related industry or research centre for the first Semester (three module equivalent period). Food Toxicology is provided as a taught module (Semester B). In Semester B, students also undertake an food related Honours Project (two module equivalent). This project may be based at the university or be based at an appropriate partner site.

Work Placement

A strength of this programme is the three month workbased placement available to students. As well as undertaking placements in the UK, students have spent time with major companies worldwide. This includes work in food processing, nutrition, clinical and nonâclinical laboratory work and food research and development. Students are regularly offered jobs by their placement company after they have graduated.

Assessment Methods

Assessment methods are designed to produce graduates with a balanced knowledge and understanding of all branches of the subject and to allow our students to become enquiring, independent learners exhibiting high levels of professionalism.
Half of our assessment is practically based, providing hands-on laboratory skills and experience of data handling and presentation which not only makes our programme distinctive but also attractive to employers seeking to find graduates with the necessary skills and competencies.

Teaching Methods

We adopt a wide range of learning and teaching methods to ensure not only that our students will gain the necessary knowledge and understanding of food bioscience but also to develop their intellectual and personal skills in the only university to offer this course in Scotland.
Our programmes take a flexible approach, combining larger scale interactive lectures with small group sessions examining case studies and honing data analysis and presentation skills. Laboratory based practical classes are central to our teaching, allowing our students to gain exposure to the rigour and demands of scientific investigation.
Our Level 4 students undertake a three month work placement, either in the UK or abroad. Many of our students are offered work in these same companies even before graduating from our course. All of our laboratory work takes place in our recently refurbished state-of-the-art suite of teaching and research laboratories.
Our Level 2 students have the opportunity to study abroad for a semester in our international exchange programme at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6 CAE score : 60(Grade C)

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

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Requirements

• Higher: BBBC
• A-Level: BCC
• ILC:BBBC
• Essential Subjects:Higher Chemistry and Maths (S) - Credit/Int 2 minimum
• Recommended Subjects: Biology (or Human Biology), English, Mathematics at Higher Grade.

Additional Requirements: Applicants are invited for interview to one of our Biorama evenings (applicants living further than a 50 mile radius from the university can make alternative arrangements). Visit our website for more details.

In addition to meeting the qualification requirements, international students where English is not the first language require an IELTS score of 6.0 with no element below 5.5.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than Glasgow Caledonian University.

Accreditation

This is the only IFST-approved Food Bioscience programme in Scotland and satisfies the educational requirements for membership of the Institute of Food Science and Technology. It has also been approved by the Royal environment Health Institute for Scotland (REHIS) to meet the pre-registration academic standard for the Scottish Food Safety Officers' Registration Board.