Diploma in
Business and Management
Level 5

These qualifications are, therefore, designed to provide:

• maximum flexibility with differently sized Level 5 qualifications that reflect the variety of learner’s needs
• opportunities for learners to develop a breadth of knowledge, skills and understanding of subject matter related to business and management topics and issues, but also
• optional units in particular specialisms that are directly related to learners’ current responsibilities or that meet a particular interest and support career development
• development of underpinning skills, personal qualities and behaviours/attitudes essential for successful performance in study and working life
• a strong base for continued learning and a desire to constantly develop as an individual, further improving knowledge, understanding and skills.

This suite of Level 5 Business Diplomas is designed to enable learners to deepen both their technical understanding of specific areas of business and their understanding of key management skills. Where Level 4 learning is about introducing the learner to higher level knowledge and skills, providing access to supervisory and junior managerial business roles, Level 5 learning strengthens and develops existing technical and managerial understanding, setting up the learner for broader managerial roles and introducing more senior management issues and themes, to be developed at Level 6.

Building on Level 4 learning, a mandatory core set of units underpins each qualification outcome meaning that learners have a firm foundation to their study but can also move forward to study optional areas of business and management most directly relevant to their needs.

The qualifications are suitable for learners to study both in college/classroom settings and as distance-learning programmes. Each unit is supported by an ATHE assignment which requires the learner to complete a small number of focused tasks designed to demonstrate relevant business knowledge and skill.

The qualifications have been designed to maximise and facilitate learner engagement. Each unit has signposting to synoptic learning and assessment opportunities across the entire suite of units, ensuring that learning and assessment is connected and holistic. Learners and tutors can see and understand the relationship between aspects of unit content clearly and easily. Also, each unit is also signposted to Study Skills and Employability Skills opportunities derived from ATHE’s standards. This ensures that learners and tutors have the opportunity to relate aspects of learning to broader study and work-related skills.

The Level 5 Extended Diploma in Business and Management (120-credit) is designed to offer learners a more comprehensive and integrated development of their learning, including undertaking a potentially synoptic, mandatory research project (Unit 4). For those learners interested in fully realising their own academic interest and potential for the subject, this qualification offers the opportunity to engage with a wide range of Level 5 business/management-related topics.

The Undergraduate Level 5 Diploma in Management is a 120 credit course designed to fast track students to the final year of an associated Undergraduate degree in Business and Management, which can either be completed at a UK university on campus or via distance learning.

Students can make payment using one of the following methods:
• Credit or debit card
• Bank transfer
• Interest free instalments
• Paypal
• Western Union

All course material online modules and written assignments
Personal tutor support with 1-2-1 Zoom sessions
Dedicated student support
Access to an online social learning forum

Before enrolling into the level 5 course, you must have attained a level 4 or equivalent.

Completing the ATHE Level 5 Diplomas will enable learners to progress to:
• ATHE Level 6 Diploma in related areas.
• Bachelor’s degree final year.
• Employment in an associated profession