Level 1/2 Award in Retail Business

OVERVIEW

This course develops a student's understanding and skills related to a range of functional areas in retail business.

• Examination board: WJEC

• Course title: Retail Business (Level 1/2 Award)

• The course is made up of three units, two of which are internally assessed and one which is a 1 hour and 15 minute externally assessed examination. 

• Papers are untiered

THE DETAILS

The course is broken down into three units:

• Customer Experience

• Retail business

• Retail operations

The units are designed with tasks which have many of the characteristics of real work in retail business. Each unit has an ‘applied purpose’ which acts as a focus for the learning in the unit.

The approach to the course is ‘applied learning’ and enables learners to develop:

• • • skills required for independent learning;

    • a range of generic and transferable skills;

    • the ability to solve problems;

    • the skills of project-based research, development and presentation;

    • the ability to work with other professionals in a professional manner.

 The units are all planned around a ‘plan, do, review’ model.

ASSESSMENT

Lead Professional for Business and ICT - a.darrell@lordswoodboys.co.uk