Welcome to the Business & Professional Studies Department
We are here to give our students essential knowledge of the UK and World Economy from the variety of perspectives. In the future, any of our students, whether a small business owner or a Minister of Finance, would be able to read the signals and make the best decisions possible.
Offering:
Business AS-level
Business A-level
Applied Business AS-level (single and double award)
Applied Business A- Level (single and double award)
Btec Diploma in Business (KS5)
Btec Diploma and Certificate in Retail (KS4 & KS5)
GCSE Business Studies (KS4)
The Business Studies course covers all the main elements of business, involving a study of:
Business Organization
Marketing (Advertising, distribution, pricing, etc)
Management (Motivation, leadership, etc)
Human Resources (Recruitment, training, etc)
Finance and Accounting
Production
External Environment of Business
Why should I Business Studies?
Business Studies involves critical thinking, interpretation of data, and manipulation of concepts and ideas.
Business Studies deals with specific businesses and how they operate in the external environment, looking at how they overcome problems such as finding finance and staff, and marketing their products profitably.
Business Studies fits very well with virtually any combination of other subjects.
The skills of analysis and evaluation which are developed in these subjects are highly valued by universities and employers, and the subjects are useful for careers in banking, finance, management and industry, and also politics and the media.
Enterprise Education
At Newlands Enterprise Education is embedded into the curriculum for all year groups. This is achieved through:
Student participation in planning and organising learning activities
Assessing risk in making choices and decisions
Teamwork
Use of real life contexts for challenges, case studies and assignments
Inviting visiting speakers from Business and the local community
Visiting local companies and community organisations
Self – evaluation
Student presentations
Competition
Celebrating success
Staff audit their teaching and learning activities on a regular basis to ensure that these enterprise capabilities are being developed in lessons.
In addition we operate Enterprise Days for all year groups at strategic points in the year. Activites include mini-markets, whole year enterprise days and thinking skills workshops hosted by our partner businesses.