Business Studies

Why Choose this course?

Taking A-level Business Studies is a great thing to do if you have aspirations of one day becoming self-employed or in a managerial position. A-level business studies can give you the tools and information required to understand how businesses are created, managed and become successful.

Prospects

A-level business studies looks great to any employers as it shows you have a background information into how a business works, so you are automatically considered for higher positions. There are several career and university options your A-level in business studies will offer you.

Whatever you choose to do in the future, you'll find that the things you learn in this course will help. For example, you'll probably work with lots of different people, so knowledge of motivational theory will help you to work well with others and help them achieve their potential.

Course Content

Year 12: An introduction to key business areas: marketing, operations, finance and human resource management. This includes a special focus on decision making - particularly how decisions made in one area can affect the rest of the business.

Year 13: An investigation of the strategic decisions that all businesses have to make.

Course Opportunities/ Activities

Throughout the year there are several opportunities and activities which complement the business course. We feel especially in business trips enhance the teaching and learning and can effectively enable students to experience first-hand places, people and issues, bringing to life the topics being studied. These include; trips to local Universities and industry leaders such as Jaguar and Merlin Entertainment.

Support and Challenge

The business team provide revision sessions to help the students to enhance their learning and further their analytically skills. Our ambition for all means is we are determined to remove any barriers in students achieving their true potential. Personalised and detailed feedback is given and students reflect and improve their answers. For each unit, reading materials are provided along with challenging articles. Staff work closely with the exam board and the students will attend revision sessions hosted by the exam company Tutor2u.

Student Comment

The topics I studied at GCSE were interesting, but A-Level Business is definitely more engaging. Although you might know about certain topics, A-level Business adds that further depth and critical thinking to your knowledge. I find that Business compliments my other subjects really well, as I am able to transfer knowledge from Business to further my learning in other subjects