Curriculum Intent

The Business Enterprise BTEC Level 2 Tech Award aims to develop students’ specialist and unique skills needed to start a career in various roles, such as sales assistants, supervisors, managers, administrative roles, customer service roles and apprenticeships as well as many others.  The award also prepares students for further and higher education.

Achieving this qualification will give students an advantage when applying for a job in business, or when starting their own business. The types of role students will be ready for include:

• Marketing management.
• Business development management.
• Junior business accountancy.

This qualification also gives students a sound basis to progress further within the Business sector to a  level 3 technical qualification.

Course Content

• The BTEC Business Enterprise course gives students:
• Hands-on experience of real-world scenarios.
• Core knowledge and understanding of the sector.
• Confidence in applying your knowledge.
• Study and research skills.
• Transferable employability skills.
• Evidence to support future academic / job applications.

The course is structured as follows:

Year 10

Component 1: Exploring enterprises (30% of the final grade)

In this unit, students will gain an understanding of how enterprise and business works. Students will examine enterprise activities in existing businesses of various sizes and consider the processes needed to set up a new business in the current environment. Businesses need employees who are enterprising to help contribute to business growth and success. This unit will give students the foundation knowledge and understanding for developing enterprise and entrepreneurial skills and finding employment in the small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector.

Year 10/11

Component 2: Planning for and pitching for an enterprise activity (30% of the final grade)

In this unit, students will find out how people use enterprise skills to develop new businesses or new ideas within a business, and will gain an understanding of the types of skills used. Students will use a range of techniques to unlock and develop their own creativity to develop enterprise ideas.

Year 11

Component 3: Promoting and financing an enterprise idea (40% of the course)

In this unit, students will be examined on creating financial documents used within businesses. Students will be expected to consider budget costs along with estimates of revenue generated from planned sales. Students will also be examined on how a supply chain can contribute to controlling costs and ensuring the continuity of supplies required by the business. This will be assessed as an exam in May/June.