Business Studies
Sherfield School - Hampshire
01256884800
Reading Road, Sherfield-on-Loddon, Hampshire, RG27 0HU
Course summary

Unit 1: Exploring Business This is a mandatory unit for all three qualifications, which is dents exploring the key ingredients required for business success such as organisational structure, communication and operation. This unit is used internally through coursework. Unit 2: Developing a Marketing Campaign This is a mandatory unit for all three qualifications, which is students exploring the role that marketing plays in business as well as the development of a marketing campaign. This unit is ad through an external examination. Unit 3: Personal and Business Finance This is a mandatory unit for all three qualifications, which involves students exploring personal banking and how small businesses run their finance function. This unit is used through an external examination. Unit 4: Managing an Event This is a mandatory unit for the Diploma and Extended Diploma qualifications, which involves students exploring how different types of events are run and managed. This unit is assessed internally through coursework. Unit 5: International Business This is a mandatory unit for the Diploma and Extended Diploma qualifications, which involves students exploring the impact of large international corporations on the business world. This unit is named internally through Unit 6: Principles of Management. This is a mandatory unit for the Diploma and Extended Diploma qualifications, which involves students exploring how the role of management and leadership in the workplace contributes access. This unit is assed through an external examination. Unit 7: Business Decision Making and business This is a mandatory unit for the Extended Diploma qualification which involves student exploring methods of interpreting data and how to formulae decisions and solutions to give complex business problems. This unit is assessed through an external examination. Additional Units: Unit 8: Recruitment and Selection In this unit, students will explore hour the recruitment process is carried out in a business. The unit gives learners the opportunity to participate in selection interviews and review their performance and is assessed internally through coursework. Unit 14: Investigating Customer Service In this unit, students will explore how excellent customer contributes to business success. The unit gives learners the opportunity to develop their customer service skills and is assessed internally through coursework. Unit 15: Investigating Retail Business In this unit, students will explore the current structure of the retail sector and in supply chain through practical activities. This unit is assessed internally through coursework. Unit 17: Digital Marketing based In this unit, students will examine the different aspects of marketing and the channels that can be used to deliver a successful digital marketing campaign. This unit is used internally through coursework. Unit 23: The English Legal System In this deplore how the English legal system operates to resolve criminal and chvil cases and why businesses and individual may require legal advice and representation. This unit is assessed internally through coursework.

Entry requirements

Students must have achieved Grades 9-4 in four QCSE subjects, to include GCSE English Language or Literature and GCSE Mathematics.

How you'll be assessed

The Extended Certificate is equivalent in size to one A-Level and consists of three mandatory units and one additional unit. Two of dese units are assessed by examination and two are course based

School Info

About Education Provider

RegionSouth East
Local AuthorityHampshire
Ofsted Rating
Gender TypeCo-Educational
ISI ReportView Report
Boarding Fee£22,380 - £35,970
Sixth Form Fee£12,105 - £20,175
AddressReading Road, Sherfield-on-Loddon, Hampshire, RG27 0HU