Flowers School of Technology and Management

Why ABE Business Management

Whether you dream of becoming an entrepreneur, getting a great job, being promoted to senior management, or you are already in a leadership role and want to enhance your professional skill set, an ABE qualification will help you turn your plans into reality.

We take a cost-effective strategic approach to professional qualifications, offering a winning combination of academic expertise and practical workplace skills to ensure you excel in a management role.

The ABE Business Management portfolio has been developed to provide the expertise needed for a management career, now and in the future.

From entry level (3 or 4), you can progress up to Level 6 which will hone the skills and knowledge required for you to work at a senior strategic level.

Embedded Entrepreneurialism

A great benefit is that entrepreneurship is embedded throughout our programmes. Even if you’re not planning to work for yourself, you’ll find as employers value staff who demonstrate entrepreneurial thinking and, in an ever-changing job market, having the know-how to create your own business is an invaluable life skill.

Progression & Recognition

With ABE Level 6 Diploma in Business Management qualification, you will not only build strategic skills needed for progression into a senior management role with the responsibility to setting and driving strategic goals, but you can also go straight onto a master's (included MBA) degree.

Pathways

ABE’s framework of Business Management qualifications runs from Level 3, right through to Level 6. You can enter at Level 3 and progress all the way up to Level 6, enabling you to accumulate the credits needed for a university top-up, or you can enter onto the framework at any point depending on your prior qualifications.

Each qualification level builds from the one before, taking you from introductory units through to strategic ones.

As the ABE qualifications framework is structured to allow you to progress from one level to the next, you must ensure to fully complete the initial level in order to be awarded the next level. ABE qualifications have been designed with progression in mind and, after completing one of our qualifications, you can progress to employment or to a higher level of study.

ABE Level 4 in Business Management

Number of Units: 8

Provides a thorough grounding in Business Management and a great springboard for progressing to higher levels of academic study.

ABE Level 5 Diploma in Business Management

Number of Units: 8

Become equipped with required tools to take up a middle management role, leading to small team of people. Fast-track to a final year degree.

ABE Level 6 Diploma in Business Management

Number of Units: 8

This ABE qualification, at the same level of difficulty as the final year of a Bachelors degree, will help you to develop the theoretical knowledge and strategic skillset you need to achieve excellence in a leadership role. This qualification will position you for a senior management role as well as qualify you to progress onto a postgraduate degree programme such as an MBA or a Masters degree.

Qualification Title

ABE Level 6 Diploma in Business Management

Qualification Objective

The objectives of the ABE Level 6 Diploma in Business Management are as follows:

To equip learners with business skills, knowledge and the understanding necessary to achieve high performance in the global business environment;

To provide education and training for a range of careers in business, including management, human resources and marketing;

To provide insight and understanding into international business operations and the opportunities and challenges presented by a globalised marketplace;

To equip learners with knowledge and understanding of culturally diverse organisations, cross-cultural issues, diversity and values;

To provide opportunities for learners to enter or progress in employment in business, or progress to higher education qualifications;

To provide opportunities for learners to develop the skills, techniques and personal attributes essential for successful working lives;

To provide opportunities for those learners with a global outlook to aspire to international career pathways;

To provide opportunities for learners to achieve a nationally-recognised professional qualification;

To offer learners the chance of career progression in their chosen field;

To allow flexibility of study and to meet local or specialist needs.

Who regulates This Qualification?

The qualification is regulated in the UK by ofqual.

Entry Guidance and Criteria

There are no formal entry requirements to study ABE Level 6 Diplomas; however, the admissions office will ensure that you have a reasonable expectation of success on the programme by assessing your previous qualifications and/or related work experience.

Hence, it is the admissions assessors' responsibility to use their professional and academic judgement when assisting you in making the decision at which level you should enter the ABE programmes.

In order to successfully study for an ABE qualification, you should have an appropriate level of spoken and written English language skills. For the ABE Level 6 Diplomas, ABE recommends you meet the following :

IELTS 6 | Cambridge ESOL - Cambridge English Advanced (point score 176 or above) | Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic) 61-67 | Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) B2-C1 | or other English language test equivalent.

Before Qualification Can be Assessed & Awarded

To be awarded the ABE Level 6 Diploma in Business Management learners are required to successfully achieve the four core mandatory and two out of the three optional untis.

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL), and exemptions

If you hold a qualification from either another professional body or university which is similar in content and level to the ABE Level 4, 5 or 6 qualifications, you might qualify for RPL, APL or an exemption from some ABE examinations or units.

Localisation

It is very important when studying for your ABE qualification that you consider your local business environment and try to apply what you are learning to relevant scenarios in your local business context. Doing this will help you to put your learning into practice and use it in your professional day-to-day activities.

Qualification Structure

The ABE Level 6 Diploma in Business Management consists of four core mandatory units and two of the three optional units. To be awarded the ABE Level 6 Diploma in Business Management learners must achieve a minimum of a Pass in all units.

The credit value is 120

Core Mandatory Units

6ULSC Leading Strategic Change - 20 Credits

6UBSD Business Strategy and Decision-making - 20 Credits

6UDIM Developing International Markets - 20 Credits

6UBES Business Ethics and Sustainability - 20 Credits

Optional Units

6USSR Strategic Stakeholder Relationships - 20 Credits

6UCF Corporate Finance - 20 Credits

6UAPM Advanced Project Management - 20 Credits

A Recent Survey

With ABE qualification, ABE alumni have been leading organisations in the finance, government, healthcare, industry, NGOs, etc., all over the world. Survey responses came from more than 70 countries with over 1,000 different job titles given. Sixty-five percent of the respondents were working in medium or large organisations, 71% who had achieved a higher ABE qualification (eg Level 6) were in a managerial or professional role and 97% stated ABE had been relevant or beneficial to their profession.

Whatever field takes your interest, an ABE qualification will give you the tools to help you achieve your professional ambitions.

With ABE Level 6 Diploma in Business Management, you can get onto a postgraduate degree course such as an MBA or Masters programme .

Modes of Study

When studying for your ABE qualification, you will learn both with supervision from your tutors in-class and through your own self-study time.

Range of course delivery methods

Classroom delivery (face to face taught time)
Mentoring and coaching from tutors
E-learning via Flowers Online Learning platform
Formative assessment
Live webinars
Assessment support for assignment writing

Suggested reading and resources

We will provide the following learning materials:

A Study Guide in PDF format. This Study Guide is aimed at learners and will expand on the Unit Syllabus, including case studies and examples, activities, and a glossary of terms.
A Recommended Reading List, Online resources.

Assessment

The 6 units for the ABE Level 6 Diploma are all assessed by a combination of examinations and assignments, both externally set by ABE UK.

Examination

At Level 6 each examination will be 3 hours long and there will be two examination sessions per year. The examination will consist of three sections: two of which will be made up of short answer questions and one section consisting of long answer/essay-based questions.

Assignments

There will be three opportunities a year for assignments to be submitted by learners. ABE Assignments are set in the format of an assignment brief, sometimes featuring a scenario and/or templates. At Level 6, assignments will have a word count of 4000.

Marking and moderation

ABE UK has a broad and varied external academic team with a breadth of experience across the qualification areas and levels. The ABE External Assessment Team marks across the three assessment windows and is very familiar with ABE students and the format of ABE exams and assignments. ABE has a very robust marking and moderation process: assessments are marked and standardised by the external team, after which they go through two phases of moderation. The results are presented to the assessment board for ratification, prior to release.

QAA Benchmarking

As well as ensuring that each qualification level offers the appropriate credit values for progression to higher education university programmes, ABE has also aligned the qualifications against sections of the QAA Framework, which applies to all degree-awarding organisations, such as universities in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

Advanced Project Management

This unit will build on the fundamental principles covered in the Level 4 Project Management unit and enable you to develop knowledge of the advanced principles, practices and techniques vital to the successful leadership and commercial management of complex projects.

Projects can range from civil construction works, through new information technology and internet-based systems and the outsourcing/offshoring of work previously tackled in-house, to the launch or re-engineering of products, services and processes. All projects should be aligned with the overall strategic objectives of the organisation.

Schlumberger

Schlumberger is the world’s leading supplier of technology, integrated project management and information solutions to oil and gas customers.

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I joined Schlumberger in 2011 as an Accounts Payable Accountant, then got promoted to Intercompany Accountant in 2013 followed by another promotion to Management Accountant. Studying the ABE Diploma in Business Management equipped me with the knowledge to venture into any role. When I first read the job advertisement I had the confidence to apply even though I had no accounting background…

ABE Level 6 Diploma Business Management

Diploma in Business Management

Pathways

Advanced Project Management

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