Business & Management studies

Develop a greater understanding of business and management issues.

Course Format

20 lessons per week for 8, 10 or 12 weeks. 10 or 20 additional lessons of general English available.

Course Description :

These courses are designed to provide student with a greater understanding of the field of business and management. They are designed to prepare student s to the world of work and are therefore suitable for students before they begin a work carrer.

Course Programme Management study certificate :

On the management studies certificate Students study the syllabus areas below. Students complete a project to practise and test the skills and techniques learnt.

Human ressources : The Role of RH, Job analysis, Selection and Interwiewing, Training and development, Compensation, Appraisal and career Management.

Finance and accounting : The financial climate, Funding the business, Financial Measurements, financial analysis, Taxations, Valuation.

Management : Management skills, Company structure, Strategy, growth and declines, mergers and takeover, motivations, Working conditions.

Marketing : The role of marketing, Market opportunities, Buyers Behaviour, Products, Pricing, placing, promotion.

Course Business study certificate :

On this course students learn about business studies and economics. Students have the option of the Cambridge BEC Examination. The course syllabus includes :

The economy, Labour relations, Work and Motivations, Production, Marketing, Market structure and competition, Efficientcy and employment, Business Ethics, Governement control and Influence, The business Cycle, Keynesianism and Monetarism, International trade.

Available at:

Brighton, Edinburgh and Oxford