This course helps you appreciate and understand the nature and working of business, and uses a problemsolving approach. During the course you will be involved in events such as the Business Awareness Programme and the Young Enterprise Masterclass.
You will also have the opportunity to see real businesses in action, with visits to the Coca Cola production plant at Wakefield and talks from local business leaders. For 2009 business trips have been planned to Prague and Barcelona.
Many Business Studies students go on to study business at university and then into successful careers in many areas of business. However Business Studies also prepares you for life and helps develop many of the essential life skills you will require in the future. Always remember that eventually you will be working for someone else or for yourself and therefore studying Business Studies will be useful.
The topics covered include: business organisations and their objectives, finance, marketing, distribution, recruitment and training, government policy, and economic, legal and social considerations.
The Business Studies A Level course helps students develop a number of skills:
• How to assemble data and assess it
• How to inves9gate facts and use deduction
• How to put over your point of view fluently
• How to work as a team to achieve results.
Students who take Business Studies often also study Accounting, Computing, Modern Languages or Maths. But students committed to the arts or sciences should also consider taking Business Studies in this cost-centred world.
AS & A2
General college entry requirements. (See page 9 for details.) In addition, you will need a GCSE grade C in Maths. GCSE English is desirable. However you do not need to have studied Business Studies at GCSE.
The course goes well with
most subject areas in particular AS Accounting
and AS Economics