Course Details

Overview

The objective of the OTHM Level 3 Diploma in Business Management qualification is to provide learners with an in-depth understanding of the operations and structure of businesses.

The qualification will provide learners with the underpinning knowledge, understanding, and skills associated with business activities. It will prompt research, investigation, and review of business aspects, including Business Communication, The Business Environment, People Management, Customer Service, Finance, and Marketing.

After completing the OTHM Level 3 Diploma in Business Management a learner should be able to demonstrate and/or work with:

Knowledge and Understanding

• An appreciation of the body of knowledge that constitutes a discipline of business.
• A range of knowledge, facts, theories, ideas, properties, materials, terminology, practices, and techniques about, and associated with, business, its functions, and its context.
• Apply knowledge, skills, and understanding using some of the basic, routine practices, and techniques to address set situations and/or problems related to the business management of organizations.
• Relating the field of business, functions of business, industries, and sectors to a range of practical and/or commonplace applications.

Generic Skills

• Obtain, organize, and use factual, theoretical, and/or hypothetical information in drawing conclusions and suggesting solutions to business organizations.
• Use a wide range of skills, such as ICT, basic analysis of the range of numerical and graphical data, and effective written and oral communication.
• Take responsibility for carrying out a range of activities with clear goals, under non-directive supervision.
• Exercise some supervisory responsibility, work in teams, evaluate the work of others, and make use of limited resources efficiently.

Successful completion of this qualification will support learners in progressing to university and provide learners with the requisite skills and knowledge to enter the world of work in their chosen sector.

Entry requirements

The OTHM Level 3 Diploma in Business Management qualification can be offered to learners from age 16. OTHM does not specify entry requirements for these qualifications, but that learners admitted to the program have sufficient capability at the right level to undertake the learning and assessment.

English requirements: If a learner is not from a majority English-speaking country must provide evidence of English language competency. For more information visit the English Language Expectations page on our website www.othm.org.uk.

Equivalences

OTHM qualifications at Level 3 represent practical knowledge, skills, capabilities, and competencies that are assessed in academic terms as being equivalent to GCE AS/A Levels.

Qualification structure

The OTHM Level 3 Diploma in Business Management qualification consists of 6 mandatory units making a combined total of 120 credits, 1200 hours of Total Qualification Time (TQT), and 480 Guided Learning Hours (GLH) for the completed qualification.

Mandatory units

Duration and delivery

The qualification is designed to be delivered over one academic year for full-time study, but it is also flexible in its delivery in order to accommodate part-time and distance learning.

The qualification is delivered face-to-face, through lectures, tutorials, seminars, distance, and online.

Assessment and verification

All units within this qualification are internally assessed by the center and externally verified by OTHM. The qualifications are criterion-referenced, based on the achievement of all the specified learning outcomes.

To achieve a ‘pass’ for a unit, learners must provide evidence to demonstrate that they have fulfilled all the learning outcomes and meet the standards specified by all assessment criteria. Judgment that the learners have successfully fulfilled the assessment criteria is made by the Assessor.

The Assessor should provide an audit trail showing how the judgment of the learners’ overall achievement has been arrived at.

Progressions

Successful completion of the OTHM Level 3 Diploma in Business Management provides learners the opportunity for a wide range of academic progressions including the OTHM Level 4 Diploma in Business Management.

As this qualification is approved and regulated by Ofqual (Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulation), many universities acknowledge the ability of learners after studying the OTHM Level 3 Diploma in Business Management and may consider them for direct entry into a range of their bachelor's degree programs. For more information visit the OTHM website OTHM | LEVEL 3 Diploma in Business Management.