Adult 19+
Business
You might be looking to up-skill and secure a promotion at work, or perhaps you are looking to set up your own business and want to develop the practical skills needed to succeed. Our courses allow you to study around your existing commitments to achieve your career goals.
You will learn from course tutors who have worked in industry and who can bring real-life examples to the classroom to enhance your learning.
Live briefs from industry allow you to apply what you have learnt in a practical setting and solve a real business issue.
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What can I study?
Business Access to Higher Education - Level 3
Do you want to know more about strategy building, economics and business? This Access to HE Business course is for you.
Length: 35 weeks
Study: Full-Time
Start date: 8th September 2025
Location: Rye Hill Campus
Law with History Access to Higher Education - Level 3
If you're interested in starting a career in law, history or literature and journalism, this Access to Higher Education Law and History course will help you to progress to degree level study.
Length: 35 weeks
Study: Full-Time
Start date: 8th September 2025
Location: Rye Hill Campus
CIPD Foundation Certificate in People Practice - Level 3
Are you passionate about people and making the workplace a great place to be? Study this course in People Practice at a CIPD Approved Centre and add real value to your workplace and the teams within it.
Length: 4.5 hours per week for 35 weeks
Study: Part-Time
Start Date: Various
Location: Rye Hill Campus
CIPD Associate Diploma in People Management - Level 5
Do you want to drive real change in your organisation and help develop others to build successful teams? This Associate Diploma in People Management is the perfect next step.
Length: 5 hours per week for 35 weeks
Study: Part-Time
Start Date: Various
Location: Rye Hill Campus
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What can I do with a Business qualification?
Daily tasks:
- Assesses and advises on factors affecting business performance.
- Determines staffing levels appropriate for accounting activities.
- Plans external and internal audit programmes, arranges for the collection and analysis of accounting, budgetary and related information, and manages the company.
- Participates in the formulation of strategic and long-term business plans, assesses the implications for the organisation financial mechanisms and oversees their implementation.
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Daily tasks:
- Produces and/or assesses reports and recommendations concerning marketing and sales strategies.
- Controls the recruitment and training of staff.
- Examines and analyses sales figures, advises on and monitors marketing campaigns and promotional activities.
- Discusses employer.
- Liaises with other senior staff to determine the range of goods or services to be sold.
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Daily tasks:
- Stays abreast of and ensures adherence to relevant legislation regarding tendering and procurement procedures.
- Researches and identifies new products and suppliers.
- Interviews suppliers.
- Arranges for quality checks of incoming goods and ensures suppliers deliver on time.
- Negotiates prices and contracts with suppliers and draws up contract documents.
- Devises purchasing policies, decides on whether orders should be put out to tender and evaluates suppliers.
- Determines what goods, services and equipment need to be sourced.
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Daily tasks:
- Directs the arranging of conferences, exhibitions, seminars, etc. to promote the image of a product, service or organisation.
- Stays abreast of changes in media, readership or viewing figures and advertising rates.
- Reviews and revises campaign strategy in light of sales figures, surveys, etc. and takes appropriate corrective measures if necessary.
- Conceives advertising campaign to impart the desired product image in an effective and economical way.
- Defines target group and implements strategy through appropriate media planning work.
- Liaises with client to discuss product/service to be marketed and develops the most appropriate strategy to deliver the objectives.
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Daily tasks:
- Stays abreast of relevant legislation, considers its impact on the organisation.
- Considers alternative work procedures to improve productivity.
- Examines and reports on company and departmental structures, chains of command, information flows, etc. and evaluates efficiency of existing operations.
- Develops and administers salary, health and safety and promotion policies.
- Undertakes industrial relations negotiations with employees.
- Provides or arranges for provision of training courses.
- Oversees the monitoring of employee performance and career development needs.
- Oversees the preparation of job descriptions, drafts advertisements and interviews candidates.
- Determines staffing needs.
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Daily tasks:
- Arranges for payment of bills, keeps accounts and ensures adherence to licensing and other statutory regulations.
- Approves and arranges shipboard entertainment and shore trips and liaises with ship.
- Ensures physical comfort of residents or passengers and makes special arrangements for children, the elderly and the infirm if required.
- Determines financial, staffing, material and other short- and long-term needs.
- Analyses demand and decides on type, standard and cost of services to be offered.
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