General OverviewGeneral Description of the Programme
The Graduate Apprenticeship BA (Hons) Business Management offers an opportunity to study towards a business degree which has been developed to ensure its aims are aligned with the needs of the labour market in the UK, Europe and the wider international business community.
The Graduate Apprenticeship BA (Hons) in Business Management helps develop the range and depth of knowledge and skills that are a prerequisite of Business Graduates entering employment in small, medium and large sized organisations.
The full-time, work-based Programme lasts 4 years (with a number of early exit points including 3 years for the Ordinary degree).
The degree of Graduate Apprenticeship BA (Hons) Business Management develops critical awareness of the world of business and facilitates, through the acquisition of generic and specialist transferable skills, capacity and capability building for the individual and the host firm.
The Graduate Apprenticeship BA (Hons) Business Management programme uses a range of teaching, learning and assessment methods which ensure the learning outcomes are achieved.
Apprentices are encouraged to become reflective learners and efforts are made to assist in recognising and developing transferable skills and personal capabilities alongside academic knowledge.
The overall assessment strategy ensures that a coherent balance of assessment is in place and that assessment supports employability and other complex learning intentions.
The GA programme is delivered through our pioneering Accelerated and Immersive Educational (AIE) approach. The AIE is a practical and digital approach designed to meet the changes and challenges faced by Higher Education currently and in the future. It utilises a cloud based platform to provide a teaching and learning environment that hosts and advances an accelerated, interactive and engaging M-learning approach that can be accessed via smart technologies. As such AIE is designed and speaks directly to the dynamism, mobility and immediacy of how we now live, work and learn. Therefore, the AIE approach digitally and physically transforms the teaching and learning practice of educators and employers, providing an engaging, personalised and immersive educational experience for learners.
Given the AIE approach to delivery, teaching and learning, the Apprentice’s educational experience will be, predominately, delivered through the integrated use of digital, social and transformational technologies. Therefore, the Apprentice will have the opportunity to constantly and immediately engage with staff and fellow students, education, tasks and discussions will be completed outside traditional or formal contact. This is a central aspect and benefit of the GA programme as it allows the Apprentice to learn and engage with tasks in a personalised manner and will develop understanding in a convergent manner with feedback and interactions from staff, fellow students and their networks.
Aims and Objectives
- Acquire and demonstrate a critical understanding of the foundations, theoretical concepts and principles of practice that relate to the creation, growth and management of modern business and enterprise
- Enable the students to develop a core skill sets that will provide the support to critically evaluate and practically respond to the challenges of the contemporary world of business and enterprise
- Develop and demonstrate a critical understanding of theory, practical knowledge and applied business practice in a digitally accelerating age
- Understand and engage with the business and operations activities of the student's host organisation and contribute effectively to its development.
During First Year, Apprentices will begin to recognise and develop learning skills and personal capabilities alongside a general understanding of the Business Management environment.
In Second Year, building on the initial introduction to Business, Apprentices will enhance their knowledge of related and more specialised areas of Business and continue to build on and reflect upon their employability skills.
In Third Year, theoretical knowledge will continue to be built upon, with further study in areas of Business and Apprentices will be encouraged to become more independent learners, accepting more responsibility for identifying their own development needs.
This is strengthened at Honours level and is complemented by the Apprentice undertaking a Business based Work Based Learning Project.
By the end of the programme the Apprentice will have acquired a high level of competence in digital application and any relevant software. All modules coursework submissions will be submitted electronically.
On completion of the degree, the Apprentice may choose to study at Post-Graduate or Masters Level at the facilitating or other Higher Education Institution. This may be either on a full time or part time, post experience basis (e.g. MBA). It is possible to pursue Professional Institute qualifications in a chosen specialist area of study (e.g. Chartered Management Institute).
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