Advanced Diplomas

SBCS offers a range of advanced diplomas that are designed to build on the knowledge gained from foundation courses, and bridge you into specialised knowledge for work in highly skilled or paraprofessional areas.

ABE LEVEL 5 DIPLOMA

The Association of Business Executives (ABE) offers professional qualifications which are recognised as accepted routes onto the later stages of a number of UK and foreign university qualifications, including the BA (Hons) Business Management, BA (Hons) Business and Marketing and BA (Hons) Business and Human Resource Management from the University of Sunderland. The ABE Level 5 Diploma builds upon the subjects covered in the Level 4 Diploma and gives a more extensive coverage of knowledge and understanding in Business Management, Marketing and Human Resources. You will expand your knowledge and skills more by learning about entrepreneurship, quantitative methods and project management. Read More …

ABMA EDUCATION

ABMA courses are designed to ensure that they are work-related and relevant to the needs of industry. ABMA qualifications are recognised by many international universities and in certain cases can lead to exemptions from the first two years of a Bachelors Degree. Read More …

CIPS ADVANCED DIPLOMA

The Advanced Diploma in Procurement and Supply provides Provides senior buyers, contract and supply chain managers with the expertise to improve organisational procurement and to fulfil organisational objectives. It gives you the knowledge base to reduce cost, improve quality and timescales, manage the supply chain and deal with legal issues. Read More …

PEARSON HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMAS

DESIGNED FOR KNOW-WHAT & KNOW-HOW

A BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) is equivalent to the first and second year of a UK Honours degree, and is ideal if you are looking to progress to, or within, employment, or the final year of a degree. 

Our HNDs are practical qualifications that allow students to become employable during their study, shortening the payback time. This affords students the opportunity to attend classes while gaining the relevant work experience simultaneously (enhancing future earning potential).

With schedules designed for the Full-time learner or the Part-time professional, you can choose the Study Mode that best suits your lifestyle.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Course content could include:

  • core units covering essential underpinning knowledge and skills
  • a wide range of optional units focusing on specialist sector knowledge
  • different qualification pathways reflecting specialist areas in some sectors
  • locally devised units reflecting the needs of your area.

HOW YOU ARE ASSESSED

HND units are assessed internally. You are graded for each individual unit with a Pass, Merit or Distinction, and you may be assessed in a number of different ways, such as:

  • presentations, written reports, accounts, surveys;
  • log books, production diaries;
  • role-play;
  • observations of practical tasks or performance;
  • articles for journals, press releases;
  • production of visual or audio materials, artefacts, products and specimens; or
  • peer and self-assessment.

All internal assessment is quality assured through internal verification and sampled through external verification by Pearson.

HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMAS AT SBCS

GLOBAL RECOGNITION

BTEC qualifications have all earned global recognition from some of the world’s leading universities:

In the United States of America

Including:

Colorado State, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology.

In Australia

Including:

Macquarie University, University of Wollongong, and Charles Darwin University,

 

In the United Kingdom

Including:

The University of Oxford, London School of Economics and the University of Surrey.

 

In Canada

Including:

Ryerson University, Brock University and University of Waterloo.