Business Administration (Senior Leaders Apprenticeship)

This Senior Leader Degree Apprenticeship programme provides an opportunity to gain business skills whilst in employment.

• You will be studying 120 credits of an MBA programme as part of your apprenticeship (this is a PGDip in Business Administration)
• Opportunity to self-fund a top-up (60 credits) to achieve a full MBA qualification upon completion of this programme.
• Delivered in blocks for extra flexibility and to fit studies around existing commitments.
• Benefit from research-based teaching and assignments that investigate real issues in your own workplace.
• Senior Leaders Apprenticeship is designed for those with at least 3 years management experience.

This Senior Leaders Apprenticeship (SLA) is designed to transform participants into confident and strategic leaders. It focuses on the practice of leadership and management, has a real-world focus and is delivered by staff who are respected experts, researchers, consultants and business practitioners.

This programme has been carefully crafted to cluster the knowledge, skills and behaviour standards into a set of facilitated modules over 4 semesters (years 1 and 2). If you opt to top-up to the full MBA qualification, you will undertake a supervised, business project researching a strategic issue in your workplace.

Reflecting on and showing evidence of a strategic learning journey and skills development is a key part of the apprenticeship philosophy and good leadership and management development practice.

Throughout the learning phase (semester 1-4), you will need to complete a portfolio evidencing how you have met the knowledge, skills and behaviours required of the Senior Leader Apprenticeship standard.

You will also prepare a strategy business case proposal with a presentation and professional discussion about your portfolio for the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) End Point Assessment.