| What is Business Education? |
Business Education is what it says – it is about educating ourselves about businesses. It involves finding out about how businesses are set up, why they are set up, what they aim to achieve and how they do it. This is an immensely popular subject and attracts students from all backgrounds. GCSE students are new to the subject, and some of our Post 16 students haven’t studied the subject before either. A large proportion of our students go on to university to study business related degree courses – by far the biggest single subject area within higher education. |
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Mission Statement |
The Business Education Department aims to provide students with a range of high quality courses that prepare them for the changing needs of industry, commerce and public services or for progression to higher education. The department develops in students the practical skills and personal qualities relevant to all aspects of working life, assisting them to be flexible in their response to the changing demands of business and society. Working in conjunction with industry and commerce, the department promotes in students a positive and proactive attitude towards their academic achievement and personal conduct in order to maximise each individual’s potential in the working world. |
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Why find out about businesses? |
Well, most of us will have to work! Business Studies must be one of the most varied and diverse subjects available. A taster is offered of the most important management fields, which enable students to develop their interests and enjoy the following modular areas:
- Marketing
- Operations management
- Finance
- People
- External influences
- Objectives and strategy
Newspaper and television headlines offer continual reminders of how relevant and of how much interest the business world is to us all. In recent years much attention has been directed to such issues as recession, the troubles of the £ and Britain’s role within the European Community. Longer term issues continue to hit the headlines too; business and the environment, Japanese companies investing in the UK and the impact of new technologies on business and working lives. All these issues are relevant to our subject area.
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How does the Business Education Department work? |
There are 2 main teachers who between them have business experience as well as teaching experience. There are also 3 other teachers who work part-time within the area. We like our students to work in a “business-like” manner and expect a pleasant working environment.
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What is Enterprise? |
Enterprise Education enables young people to develop 3 key areas:
- Enterprise capability
- Financial capability
- Business and economic understanding
Enterprise capability provides young people with the capability to handle uncertainty and respond positively to change, the create and implement new ideas and new ways of doing things, to make reasonable risk/reward assessments and act upon them in their personal and working life.
Financial capability is the degree to which young people are equipped with the understanding necessary to become a questioning and informed consumer of financial services and the ability to manage their finances effectively.
Business and economic understanding is focussed on the context of business, central to which is the idea that resources are scarce, so that choices have to be made between alternative uses.
Some young people will wish to start their own business; others will use their enterprise capability to enable them to be a flexible and continuously learning team member in an existing organisation. |
