Level 5 Business Management (Small Business Enterprise) Foundation Degree

This course has been designed to provide students with the knowledge, understanding and skills required for success in future business employment, or to progress on to a Top-up Degree course. It recognises the value of combining academic and vocational skills to prepare the student for a career in the industry of their choice.

This course consists of the following:

• Developing business skills
• Business liability
• Managing communications
• Marketing tools
• Business finance
• Employment law
• Work placement (May to September)
• Performance management
• Business decision-making
• Research project
• Management & leadership
• Entrepreneurship
• Enterprise development

Five of the above modules will be studied in year one and four modules will be studied per year after that.

A final year research project module allows students to combine many of the skills they will have developed to produce findings about a particular area of interest. This will help with their progression should they decide to top-up to an Honours Degree following successful completion of this course.

Students will need between 140 and 240 UCAS points from:

• BTEC Diploma or Extended Diploma
• At least two 'A' Levels at 'A2' or GCE Applied/AVCE Double Award
• Advanced Diploma
• International Baccalaureate

This will be supported by a minimum of GCSEs at grade A*-C in Maths and English Language (or equivalent).

Consideration will be given to other related Level 3 qualifications and related work experience.*

Mature students with relevant experience and/or qualifications, including an Access to HE Diploma within a relevant subject area, are welcome to apply.*

International students require an IELTS (academic) test score of 6.0 (with no component less than 5.5).

*You may be required to attend an interview.