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The Sixth Form
Branson, Dyson, Gates, Roddick - Virgin, Dyson vacuum cleaners, Microsoft, Body Shop: dynamic and rich people with successful firms. All these entrepreneurs have in their time followed some of the many principles laid down by a typical Business Studies course. You will study these principles and learn from the examples of these entrepreneurs as well as, importantly, from the failed ventures which have littered the business world too.
Business Studies is about decision-making. What price for a can of new fizzy drink, where to sell it, where to make it, how to raise the money to fund its manufacture, how to motivate the staff, how to deal with customer complaints….? The course you might embark on in Business Studies offers the opportunity to ask these and similar questions, sometimes by looking through the eyes of a corporate giant like Coca Cola and sometimes from the point of view of a relative minnow like a local brewery.
Business Studies is a practical and dynamic subject. Lessons will be based on case-studies and on their application, using simulations, role-play, computer packages and a wide range of video media. To take this course, you need to be excited by contemporary business affairs and to be willing to debate and challenge the traditional ways firms can go about their work.
The specification offered is the AQA Business Studies course. In the AS year the topics covered are marketing, accounts and finance, operations-management, people-management, external influences, objectives and strategy and these are assessed by case-studied based exams, one taken in January and one in June. In the A2 year, these topics are applied and studied in more depth, with the same split of two modules. There is no coursework element in either year. The A Level sits well with many combinations of other A Levels, complementing them and enhancing them. However, we do not allow you to take Business Studies if you are already taking Economics because of the considerable common ground between them.
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