BUSINESS A LEVEL AND AS LEVEL

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Business

Business is a subject for our budding entrepreneurs, who are able to delve into topics relevant to today’s society, including the business environment and marketing operations. Students learn to develop a critical understanding of organisations, explore business behaviour from a range of perspectives and acquire knowledge about how businesses are currently structured and how they run. In addition, studying Business helps to hone skills, such as conducting research, problem-solving and decision-making.

Course outline

Theme 1 - Marketing and people

  • Meeting customer needs
  • The market
  • Marketing mix and strategy
  • Managing people
  • Entrepreneurs and leaders

Theme 2 - Managing business activities

  • Raising finance
  • Financial planning
  • Managing finance
  • Resource management
  • External influences

Theme 3 - Business decisions and strategy

  • Business objectives and strategy
  • Business growth
  • Decision-making techniques
  • Influences on business decisions
  • Accessing competitiveness
  • Managing change

Theme 4 - Global business

  • Globalisation
  • Global markets and business expansion
  • Global marketing
  • Global industries and companies (multinational corporations)

Assesment

AS level

Paper 1: Marketing and people

  • Assessment of content from Themes 1 and 2
  • 80 marks
  • 1 hour 30 minutes written paper
  • 50% of total AS level

Paper 2: Managing business activities

  • Assessment of content from Themes 1 and 2
  • 80 marks
  • 1 hour 30 minutes written paper
  • 50% of total AS level

A level

Paper 1: Marketing, people and global business

  • Assessment of content from Themes 1 and 4
  • 100 marks
  • 2 hours written paper
  • 35% of total A level

Paper 2: Business activities, decisions and strategy

  • Assessment of content from Themes 2 and 3
  • 100 marks
  • 2 hours written paper
  • 35% of total A level

Paper 3: Investigating business in a competitive environment

  • Assessment of content across all four themes
  • 100 marks
  • 2 hours written paper
  • 30% of total A level

Specification

Teachers will choose the examination board for students joining in Year 12 based on their expertise and specialist knowledge. For Year 13 and retake students, teachers will continue students’ studies with AQA, Edexcel/Pearson, OCR or WJEC/Eduqas. Please note that we do not offer CIE but can more than map to one of the boards listed.

Teachers

David Shreir
BSc (UCL), MSc (Royal Holloway), PGCE (Institute of Education, London)

Jason Stokes
BEcon (Sydney), MCommerce (Sydney), MTeaching (Sydney), QTLS

Leila Mughal
BA (Middlesex), PGCE (Institute of Education, London)

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  • Average grades 57% A*-A and 80% A*-B
  • Average A level retake improvement is 1.5 grades
  • Superbly qualified teachers who care
  • Exceptional UCAS support
  • Individual weekly mentoring
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