Business Management

If you want to learn what is needed to set up as an entrepreneur and make your own mark in the world of business, then this Business Management degree is for you. Refine your skills in management, strategy, and research to support your journey into the ever-evolving business landscape.

The modules of this course cover practical business and theoretical models, designed to build and enhance your business skills and acumen incrementally, providing you with opportunities for your future career. You will develop the creative and practical skills needed to create robust business plans and marketing strategies supported by Business Lecture series. Through research, creative and innovative skills, business and management knowledge, you will gain the ability to evaluate data, understand financial statements, process information and produce meaningful solutions to your creative briefs.

As part of your second year, you will have the opportunity to work with industry on live professional project briefs, or alternatively, complete a professional work-based learning opportunity in a sector of your choice. In your final year, you will conduct professional strategic research which enhances and supports your final business and management implementation project.

Why study this course?

• Engage in collaborative working with students from other subject areas

• Enhance your entrepreneurial skills by preparing financial statements, evaluating data and creating innovative pitches to win new business

• Learn to communicate visually, verbally and creatively through multiple forms of digital creative media

• Assessment methods such as pitches and presentations will help prepare you for industry

• You will be encouraged to bring your own unique entrepreneurial ideas to the course and create business proposals for development.

Career pathways

The course is uniquely tailored for students wishing to pursue a career in: business start-up, marketing/digital, branding, e-commerce, buying, business analysis, HR and finance.

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You'll explore operations and management, business finance, how strategy is incorporated into management, critically evaluating global business practice, identifying solutions to business problems, responsible business practice and career coaching. For more information, please visit the course page on our website.

You will be continually assessed throughout the course using a variety of methods including oral assessment, portfolio, practical assignments, presentations, critique, reflective written documents, and industry-focused reports. Formative assessment will be used throughout the modules to assess progress, while summative assessment will take place in the latter stages of each module. For more information, please visit our website.

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS