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Pearson Level 1/Level 2 BTEC Tech Award in Enterprise (2022)
Content Overview
Component 1: Exploring Enterprises
Learners will explore different enterprises to develop their knowledge and understanding of the characteristics of enterprises and the skills needed by entrepreneurs to be successful. Learners will explore how enterprises use market research to find out about their customer needs and competitor behaviour and how internal and external factors may affect enterprises.
Component 2: Planning and Presenting a Micro-Enterprise Idea
Learners will generate two realistic ideas for a micro-enterprise and choose one of these to plan within budget. They will individually present their business plan for their idea and review the production and delivery of their presentation to make recommendations for improvements.
Component 3: Marketing and Finance for Enterprise
Learners will explore how marketing is used by enterprises and the factors that influence how enterprises identify and target their market. Learners will complete financial documents and statements and explore how to use them to monitor and improve the performance of an enterprise in order to make decisions and recommend strategies for success.
Why choose a BTEC Tech Award in Enterprise?
This qualification is for learners interested in taking a hands-on course alongside their GCSEs that will offer them an insight into what it is like to work the Enterprise sector. Enterprise is an important part of the business sector and plays a major role in the UK’s global economic status, with SMEs accounting for about half the turnover in the UK private sector. This course will give learners a broad insight into entrepreneurship and the skills, knowledge and attitudes that underpin it, allowing them to decide whether it is a career pathway they would like to pursue, while keeping their options for progression wide open.
Using realistic vocational contexts, learners will acquire sector-specific applied knowledge and practices, studying the characteristics of enterprises and entrepreneurs, researching internal and external factors affecting the business environment (customers, competitors, the external environment), and learning how to develop a business plan using marketing and financial knowledge.
In addition, they will develop employability skills essential in business and many other contexts, such as market research, planning, decision-making, problem-solving, creativity and financial literacy, as well as personal skills and attributes such as time management, communication and the ability to evaluate and critically analyse their own performance and ideas.
The Tech Award combines theory with plenty of practical application, giving learners the opportunity to put their skills and knowledge into action in both learning and assessment, embedding knowledge and ensuring learners fully connect knowledge to practice. Through the two internally assessed components, learners complete realistic tasks and activities that allow them to evidence core knowledge, understanding and skills, as well as reflective practice.
This Tech Award complements the learning in GCSE programmes such as Computer Science and Design and Technology by providing opportunities for practical application alongside conceptual study, for example, researching an idea for a small enterprise. There are also strong opportunities for post-16 progression in this vital sector.
Assessment Overview
Choosing a BTEC Tech Award
Tech Awards are Level 1/Level 2 courses that are of the same size and rigour as GCSEs, widening learners’ options at Key Stage 4, while keeping all their options open for progression into post-16 education and training. We have developed all our Tech Awards in consultation with subject specialists and secondary school and FE representatives, to ensure that they are engaging and fully up to date with current sector skills, behaviours and knowledge, learning both in the sector and more widely.
With a Tech Award learners will:
Get a taste of what a sector is like.
Gain transferable skills and confidence that will help them in the world today and prepare them for their futures.
Receive an introduction to vocational study.
Have opportunities to apply learning from their GCSE subjects to every day and work contexts.
Build applied knowledge and skills that show an aptitude for further learning both in the sector and more widely.
Embedding learning through application
Tech Award qualifications are designed to help learners:
Explore what it’s like to work in the sector and gain the underpinning knowledge and skills required to work in it.
Develop key knowledge, skills and behaviours, and learn about essential tools, techniques, and equipment.
Apply their learning to real-life contexts and vocational scenarios in both learning and assessment.
Vocational Courses Frequently Asked Questions
Vocational Courses Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Vocational Course?
Vocational Courses are high quality, hands-on qualifications grounded in the real world of work. For Vocational students, it’s all about learning by doing and putting what they learn into practice straight away. With their focus on skills-based learning, Vocational courses are designed around themed units. Rather than testing everything together at the end, Vocational Courses are assessed throughout the course using assignments set in real-life scenarios, where students develop and apply the practical knowledge and skills employers and higher education are looking for.
How many lessons do I get a week?
You will have 5 lessons of your chosen subject per fortnight. Normally 3 lessons one week and 2 lessons the following week.
How much practical work is there?
As much as possible lessons will include an element of practical work. In all Vocational Course areas you need to be able to show with written work that you have planned, carried out and evaluated your work in a range of projects. This means that in all courses there is an expectation that you complete written work following practical activities. If theory work is completed in good time there will be more opportunities for practical activities.
Does my work in Year 10 count?
Yes. All assignments set throughout the course will count towards your final grade. You must complete all the units set by your teacher in order to complete the course. Once deadlines have been met you will be awarded one chance to improve your work and then you can be told your final grade for that unit. After this there is no opportunity to improve it.
Will choosing a Vocational Course now limit my college choices?
No. The Vocational Courses courses are level 2 qualifications. This means that they are directly comparable to GCSE and as long as your performance is good in the subjects your options at college will not be affected.
Should I study more than one Vocational Course subject?
The answer to this depends on the individual. Students have in the past studied 2 and sometimes 3 Vocational Courses courses. You need to be able to plan your time well as you could have several assignments due at the same time if you choose more than one Vocational Course.
How is my work marked?
Project work will be marked by your teacher, possibly checked by another teacher in school and some are sent away for moderation by the exam body. All Vocational courses also include a component with an exam. You get two attempts at the exam in all courses.
Can I use evidence gathered outside of school?
Sometimes in BTEC sport students compete in sports that we do not offer in school. Evidence of this can be provided by making videos of performances or getting your coach to write witness statements of training sessions or competitions you have taken part in .
In Animal care you can use your own pets/animals as part of your projects. This might include a record of daily checks, pictures of you making sure their housing is clean and appropriate or videos of you handling the animals with care.
When will I get my grade?
Once teachers have awarded your final grade for each unit you will be given feedback on your work and told your grade for that assignment or component. Once you have completed all of the components your teacher will collate the results and be able to tell you your overall grade for the course.
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