BATHE Level 5 Advanced Diploma in Business Enterprise

The Qualification provides comprehensive coverage of the issues, challenges and disciplines growth organisations or business start-ups face. Learners who want to make a success of their own business venture or to develop their skills in promoting or creating growth in organisations will gain significantly from this qualification. The inspired student or entrepreneur will gain valuable insights into the characteristics, skills, resources and tools required to drive a growing organisation or business start-up forward. Learners
will be required to be proactive and engage with businesses that have growth strategies or  start-ups with ambition. Learners will be expected to create ideas and plans that support their personal business goals or those of organisations that they are involved with.
The Qualification will also require learners to make judgements and provide creative and practical solutions and ways of responding to organisational challenges and problems. An action based approach will be sought and learners who have strong motivation to progress in their chosen career and business pathway will gain significantly from the qualification.
The Level 5 units are also designed to dove-tail into a top-up undergraduate year at a UK University. The programmes offered provide the opportunity for individuals to forge a career in business by seeking a greater knowledge and understanding industry, and to support the individual’s development into senior positions. The course aims for the following:

1. To enable Learners to apply analytical and evaluative techniques to business in private  and public sectors.                                                                                                                                         
2. To enhance analytical and evaluative skills relating to business across a number of industries.
3.  To develop the Learner’s ability to recognise and reflect on the process of personal learning and development which facilitates the enhancement of key personal, sociable and other transferable skills.
4. To encourage the Learner’s self-reflection, analytical, intellectual and transferable skills.

The overall learning outcomes for this qualification are:
1. To understand and apply the principles of leadership in a business environment
2. Review and apply the principles of business management within industry
3. To understand and apply the principles of management in a specific environment
4. To improve the employability of learners by allowing them to explore the relationship between management theories and their practical application in the business world.
5. Analyse problem solving techniques specific to business and industry
6. Select, collate, review and analyse information form a wide range of sources
7. Effectively use verbal and communication skills
8. Work independently and as part of a team
9. Manage one’s own personal development and growth

The Level 5 Advanced Diploma in  Business Enterprise qualification is available as a 120-credit. The qualifications are graded Pass, Merit or Distinction

• Entrepreneurship, Enterprise and Creativity
• Influences on Organisational Growth and Development
• Venture Management – Growing a Business
• Marketing for Growth Organisations
• Developing and Launching a New Business
• Social Enterprise and Third Sector Organisations

Level 5 Diploma in Business Enterprise is equivalent the UK Bachelor foundation degree.
Upon successful completion of six modules, learners will be awarded BATHE Level 5 Advanced Diploma in Business Enterprise.

Level  5 Advanced Diploma in Business Enterprise offers and provides careers related guidance and support to students which are
· Positive, constructive and helpful
· Practical
· Realistic
· Impartial and client centred
· Progression to the Level 6 Diploma in Business Administration.
· Progression to the UK BA/BSC (Honour) degree Top Up – Final Year.
Graduate can utilise these skills to find a good and well paid job in all areas of management and administration.

The Qualifications have been designed to be accessible without artificial barriers that restrict access and progression. Entry to the Qualifications will be through centre interview and the candidates will be expected to hold the following:
• Learners who have passed Level 3 Diploma in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship can progress onto this diploma through Level 4 Certificate in Business Management. or
• Learners who possess Qualifications at Level 4 and/or;
• Learners who have work experience in the business sector and demonstrate ambition with clear career goals;
In certain circumstances, students with considerable experience but no formal Qualifications may be considered, subject to interview and being able to demonstrate their ability to cope with the demands of the programme.

Learner must be 18 years or older at the beginning of the course

English requirements: If a learner is not from a majority English-speaking country must provide evidence of English language competency.

The qualification is designed to be delivered over one academic year for full-time study, but it is also flexible in its delivery in order to accommodate part-time and distance learning.

The qualification is delivered face-to-face, through lectures, tutorials, seminars, distance, online by approved centres only.

All units within this qualification are internally assessed by the centre and externally verified by BATHE. The qualifications are criterion referenced, based on the achievement of all the specified learning outcomes.

To achieve a ‘pass’ for a unit, learners must provide evidence to demonstrate that they have fulfilled all the learning outcomes and meet the standards specified by all assessment criteria. Judgement that the learners have successfully fulfilled the assessment criteria is made by the Assessor.

The Assessor should provide an audit trail showing how the judgement of the learners’ overall achievement has been arrived at.