Ghengis,
You're probably right about the content and support given on foundation courses and I'm not really qualified to comment on that as I've never done one. My Honours degree was done on the back of 20 odd years experience in the RAF so more the University of Life rather than an actual academic institute.
Assuming that the guy has the basic qualifications then he will enjoy the better support on the under grad course which I know is good at kingston.
Interestingly more than half our course got firsts and 2:1 and we were juggling full time employment and families but were generally older so potentially had a little more expperience in striking the balance. Also we weren't as easily distracted by the "extra curricular" activities being old and surprisingly less attractive to the rest of the population although it wasn't for want of trying...LOL!
JJ