Vocational Business

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate in Business

The Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate in Business is an Applied General qualification. It is for post-16 learners who want to continue their education through applied learning and who aim to progress to higher education and ultimately to employment in the business sector. The qualification is equivalent in size to one A level and aims to provide a coherent introduction into the business sector.

The course will require students to

  • apply numerical skills in a range of business contexts

  • gain good understanding of and the ability to use analytical techniques appropriate for the business world

  • develop decision making skills transferable to a wide range of careers

  • understand business behaviour can be studied from a wide range of contexts

  • acquire a range of relevant business and generic skills, including decision making, problem solving, the challenging of assumptions and critical analysis

Summary Assessment

The learning programme covers the following content areas: Business environments; Finance and Marketing.

The optional units have been designed to support choices in progression to business courses in higher education and to link with relevant occupational areas:

Human resources; Accounting; Marketing and Law.

There are 4 units of which 3 are mandatory, 1 is an optional unit.

Of the four units, two are externally assessed (58%) and two are internally assessed (42%-coursework).

Course Leader: Mrs V Wright

Higher Education Opportunities

The course provides a foundation to studying a wide variety of degree level courses at University including International Business Management, Accounting and Finance, Marketing or Economics.

Career opportunities:

The nature of the skills developed in Business would allow the pursuit of a career in a wide and varied number of fields including Retail, Human Resources, Financial Services, Logistics, Marketing, Public Relations or Project Management.