Business

Assessment

Teachers use innovative techniques, real-life experience and technology to help enthuse students and make lessons student-centred and interesting. Students should have an enquiring mind, ask questions and be able to solve problems and evaluate a range of ideas. It is a two year A-Level. We encourage students to engage in lessons, rise to challenges, take risks and have fun. Business is a very popular A-Level. Students are introduced to the challenges and issues of starting a business and explore the key functions of a business. They will use problem-solving to make decisions on these functions and how they interlink with each other. Students will learn about leadership and management before considering strategy, change management and how factors affect businesses. They will explore responses to these and develop methods to achieve objectives. Students use real-world examples to aid their understanding. Some of the issues we will look at include: - What is the impact of leaving the EU on business? - Why do Japanese car manufacturers choose to locate in the UK? - What are the implications of stricter pollution controls on business? - Why do pubs sell guest ales? - Why do small businesses cease trading despite having full order books? - Why did Subway expand through a franchise system? - How can a company improve employee morale? - Should training be viewed as an overhead or as an investment? - What is Total Quality Management? - What is Globalisation? - Why did Mars launch ‘Celebrations’? - How can UK products be more competitive?