Learn from the most competitive game in the world.
- Baroness Karren Brady CBE
The Pearson BTEC Level 1/Level 2 Tech Award is for learners who want to acquire sector-specific applied knowledge and practices through vocational contexts by studying enterprises, entrepreneurs, customers, competitors, the external environment, business planning and presenting, marketing and finance.
The qualification enables learners to develop their transferable skills, such as researching, planning, making decisions and judgements, and financial literacy using realistic vocational contexts, and personal skills, such as creativity and innovation, time management, reviewing, communication and planning through a practical and skills-based approach to learning.
This means:
Students get the chance to do a case study a successful, local Enterprise in order to identify how the entrepreneur achieves their aims of running a successful business.
Students identify the skills and characteristics that make a successful entrepreneur.
Students identify and critique various types of research that the Enterprise has carried out in order to identify gaps in the market.
Students do a PEST and SWOT Analysis for their chosen Enterprise.
Students create ideas for their own enterprise idea.
Students develop, cost and develop ideas about how they would market their own idea.
Students create their own business plan which includes all costings to see whether or not their enterprise could be successful.
Students develop their interpersonal skills through the presentation of their own business pitch.