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Business Studies

A Level

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Availability & Details

Business Studies - A Level HF1-BSTUAL/C01

Venue
Havant College

Type of study
A Levels

Dates
Academic Year 2027-28 (2 years)

Examination board
AQA Education

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Overview

In an ever-increasingly competitive world, the efficiency and effectiveness of the business community is vital for the success and growth of our economy. This course focuses on how decision-making is undertaken at a strategic and operational level.

This versatile A Level will equip you with expert knowledge of key business concepts and theories and the ability to apply them to practical, real-life situations. Business A Level will provide you with a critical understanding of organisations, markets and the process of adding value, along with a picture of the internal workings of successful organisations.

If you’d like to study business, finance or management at university, A Level Business provides an excellent foundation. The skills you learn are transferable across a broad range of subjects and careers. Whatever you choose to do in the future, you’ll find that the things you learn in this course will help. For example, you’ll probably work with lots of different people, so knowledge of motivational theory will help you to work well with others and help them achieve their potential. You might have ambitious plans to start your own business. If that’s the case, you’ll find the marketing and finance topics particularly useful.

Five GCSEs at grade 4 or above including English Language and Mathematics.

On this course you will study: Year 1:

  • What is business? (Business and Objectives, Business Forms)
  • Marketing Management
  • Financial Management
  • People Management
  • Operations Management
  • Managing Business Culture
Year 2:
  • Business and Society
  • Business and the external environment
  • Strategy
  • Change
Topics include the following key theories:
  • Competitive advantage
  • Digital marketing and e-commerce
  • Extended marketing mix
  • Marketing mapping, confidence intervals and interpretation of income and price elasticity of demand
  • Shareholders and share prices
  • Stakeholder identification and power//interest mapping
  • Market development, Product development
NOTE: There is a substantial amount of Mathematics involved in this course.

Digital technology is embedded throughout the curriculum equipping you with skills that are industry-recognised including Cloud based applications for your onward career journey. The College offers a variety of learning and teaching approaches including lectures, tutorials, webinars, workshops, presentations, group discussions and revision classes.

There is no coursework in Business, all modules are assessed by written exams at the end of your second year. You will sit three exam, each one covering different units. Each exam is worth 33% of the overall mark and lasts for two hours.

Students from this course successfully progress into employment, on to degree courses such as business studies, business management, marketing, human resources, accounting, business enterprise and management studies as well as a range of combined degree courses. Many students also successfully apply for Apprenticeships in business-related areas.

The College is committed to providing you with an education that strongly links formal learning with professional or vocational practice.You will have opportunities to visit Prague and New York as part of this course.


I would say it’s a college that really balances academia with fun, there is lots of extra-curricular stuff that you can get involved in. It has a really good work/life balance.

Laura Hagedorn, A Level student

“HSDC provided me with the opportunity for autonomous study and the choice of subjects that I wanted to study, which helped me develop relevant knowledge as well as relevant skills for the workplace.”

Lucas Ratcliffe, A Level and CTEC student

I overcame a couple of barriers by working really hard to get the top grades. My experience was really good, with the course and the lecturers, the residentials and activities, together it was all really good. I had really great teaching support, I could always go to the lecturers and speak to them if I needed to.

David Stenning, Public Services student