Internationally focused teaching
IE's language and academic experts deliver foundation and postgraduate programmes, as well as pre-sessional and short courses that combine academic subject knowledge with English language skills and cultural adaptation studies.
An International Foundation programme at St Andrews combines academic subjects with language and academic skills to help you to develop the analytical approach to learning required for success in a UK university.
The University offers postgraduate study options for individuals interested in the theory and practice of teaching English to speakers of other languages.
The University offers summer courses that give students from around the world an ideal opportunity to experience university life at St Andrews.
Pre-sessional courses provide international students with the language and academic literacy levels required for study at the University of St Andrews.
The University of St Andrews designs tailor-made courses to meet the specific requirements of other educational institutions and organisations.
Apply for an International Foundation programme
Programmes start in January and September each year
Announcements
International Education Institute is now on Twitter
We now have a Twitter account for disseminating scholarly outputs of academic staff and postgraduate students! Our Twitter handle is: @StA_IEI. Follow us here: http://twitter.com/StA_IEI.
IEI academic staff member wins University Teaching Excellence Award 2023
IEI Programme Director Kirsty Duff is one of the five winners of the university-wide teaching excellence award, recognising Kirsty’s outstanding commitment to student engagement and learning. Watch the video of the award presentation on YouTube and read more about the awards on the St Andrews News page.
MSc TESOL students winning two internationally recognised dissertation awards
Peter Bannister is the winner of BALEAP's (British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes) MA Award 2023. Peter's dissertation title is "Exploring the critical listening assessment conundrum on pre-sessional EAP programmes in Higher Education". Peter is supervised by Dr Mark Carver.
Mellidy Campbell-Lochrie is the winner of British Council's Master's Dissertation Award 22-23. Mellidy's dissertation title is "A socio-political and cultural driven analysis of the representations of protected characteristics in UK-produced ELT textbooks, through the lens of the Equality Act (2010)". Mellidy is supervised by Dr Amritesh Singh.