These popular courses (also still known by their old name, ‘Business Studies’) introduce you to the wide range of skills required in the rapidly changing business environment of the 21st century. Employers are always looking for individuals who understand how businesses work and either of these courses will provide you with a thorough grounding in all aspects of managing people, finance, production and marketing.
Whether you decide to take the GCSE or the IGCSE course, the course content is very similar.
The Business course is divided into five modules, as follows:
This course concerns the business aspects of organisations within their economic, political and social contexts. Business Studies involves the investigation of how business adds value by organizing the production of goods and services.
The performance of business is studied from a range of perspectives. Using case studies, your course ensures that you have knowledge, understanding and experience of the real world of business organisations.
The use of case study materials also requires that you use a variety of methods to analyse and evaluate this evidence and thus make reasoned judgements in the context of real business scenarios.
Module One, Business Activity and the Changing Environment provides an overarching set of concepts, explores the Ownership and Control of Business, and investigates the Aims and Objectives of Business. The first module provides a context within which the remainder of the Subject Content is to be studied. There is no optional content and the remaining four modules, Human Resources, Accounting and Finance, Production, and Marketing, focus on these aspects of business.
The examining board set out exactly what needs to be studied in order to pass the examination.
Oxford Open Learning’s Business GCSE course is designed to prepare students for the AQA GCSE in Business (8132)
Oxford Open Learning’s Business IGCSE course is designed to prepare students for the Edexcel International GCSE in Business Studies (4BS1)
Both specifications will be examined in May/June 2022 and later years.
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All of our International GCSE and GCSE Business students receive:
The course costs £375. Click for full details of The Oxford Open Learning Trusts GCSE and international GCSE prices