31 July 2020

  Our Access to Professions in Business Management course aims to give you an advantage. That might be a specialist set of skills, a unique work-placement, an interview, and ultimately a career. Whatever it is, our aim is to ensure you gain the knowledge and experience you need to take your next steps either into employment, further study, and to enhance your overall career prospects.   This course provides an excellent foundation for those who wish to study a broad range of business related university courses. It offers an appropriate blend of units and practical study skills.   Staff at our University Centre have many years’ experience within the industries of marketing, finance, events and travel. As a result, they have accumulated multiple contacts and have extensive links with influential businesses including Kellogg’s and ITV. This enables lecturers to create interactive, hands-on, and practical lectures that engross students in their studies.  

Course outline:

  The Access to Professions consist of 15 graded units. These units are:
  • Business Management structures
  • Business organisations
  • Marketing
  • Motivating staff
  • Sustainability
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Business ideas and start-ups
  • Managing conflict
  • Recruitment and selection
  • Contract law
  • Employment law
  • Negligence
  • Business financial planning
  • Management accounting
  • Business ethics
  Successful completion of the Access to Business qualification will enable progression onto undergraduate study at University or a HNC/HND qualification. Many of our student’s progress to Russell group universities.   For more information and the chance to apply, click here.