Business - Level 2 Award

This course provides you with a broad introduction to the business and administration sector, giving you underpinning knowledge and skills specific to the sector, alongside a range of transferable employability skills. It has been designed to help you progress to further learning and employment in business and administration or other related sectors.

Topics covered can include:

• Enterprise in the business world
• Introduction to Business
• Finance for Business (Externally assessed)
• Promoting a brand (Optional unit)  - Here students will learn will explore the importance of branding and promotion to business and elements of the promotional mix in order to develop and promote a brand for a business

You will need:

• Four GCSEs at grade 3 or above or an equivalent Level 1 qualification at Merit
• A reference from your previous school/college

All applicants must have an interview to confirm that the course is suitable for them.

The course consists of one externally assessed unit.  The remaining units are internally assessed.

Adults - Entry Level, Level 1 and Level 2

If you will be aged 19+ on 31st August prior to the start date of your course, up to Level 2, then your study with us will be free. You must have lived for 3 years within the EU/EEA/UK prior to the start of your course, you must have lived in the UK before 1st January 2021 and you must have permission to live in the UK for at least 12 months from the first day of learning. Please see here for the documents you will need to show us.

Some courses will have other associated costs, such as for specialist materials and trips. Many of our students are eligible for financial support, see here for details.

No additional costs/course fees.

The knowledge and skills you will acquire on this programme of study will support progression to a broad range of level 3 study such as:

• other Level 2 vocational qualifications
• Level 3 vocational qualifications
• BTEC L3 National Foundation Diploma in Business
• BTEC  L3 National Extended Diploma in Business

Betty Joined the College of Haringey, Enfield, and Northeast London in 2015 and is highly qualified with an MBA, in Management Studies, a PGCE and a BSC in Business Management. She began her teaching career in 2005 teaching Business and managing the Access to Higher Education provision at Newham College of Further Education. Betty has experience teaching BTEC, A Levels, Access to HE, HNC/D and Foundation Degrees.

Before teaching, Betty worked for companies such as Toyota, Akzo Nobel (Skikkens B.V of Holland) and Mark and Spencer.

Betty also has a passion for Special Educational Needs and has been supporting SEN learners in Vocational programmes to achieve their full potential. Betty is currently a doctoral student researching inclusive education and already holds a P.G. Certificate in Autism and Asperger’s syndrome, QTLS.

The teachers listed may change, these shown are an example of the teachers who teach on these programmes.