Business Management

Contact the Qualifications Manager for this subject area
Alistair Wylie GRAPHIC: email icon.

For more information about the Access 1 and 2 levels, please refer to the Access 1 and 2 website.

Subject-specific Information

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Standard Grade Practical Abilities Project

Copies of Standard Grade Practical Abilities will be issued to centres shortly. Should additional copies be required please contact your SQA Co-ordinator who can download these documents.

Advanced Higher

IMAGE: Introducing Advanced Higher leaflet cover. Advanced Highers are, as the name suggests, advanced qualifications. They are usually taken in the sixth year at school or at college. People who take Advanced Highers have normally passed Highers. Advanced Highers are National Courses. They are usually made up of three National Units and an external assessment — normally an examination or project.

More information on Advanced Highers is available in the downloads below:

NQGA Business

Further information on National Qualification Group Awards (NQGA) in Business is available from the NQGA Business section of our website.

The Sports Store Game

A new, free enterprise resource will be available to all of Scotland's schools from April 2007 and takes the form of an internet business game that gives pupils and teachers the opportunity to run a football store.

This game has been developed in collaboration with Scottish teachers including input from Rangers and Hearts, and is based on a successful pilot (see www.sportsstore.org.uk) involving 18 schools and 1,200 pupils ranging across S1-S5. Teachers have had the opportunity to include the game in lessons in Business Education, Maths/ICT, English, PE and PSE, supported by resources such as lesson plans and pupil worksheets and notes.

You are invited to attend a road show in the week of 23 April 2007 to hear about the game, meet with the teachers who have been using it, discover the experiences of pupils and learn about wider SPL involvement or other SPL teams. You are urged to also pass this invitation on to enterprise co-ordinators in schools and other relevant colleagues. Registration is at: http://www.rsvpbook.com/event.php?415876

The game has been developed by a New Zealand company, supported by SQA and Microsoft, and with guidance from Learning & Teaching Scotland. Pupils in Scotland have been competing with their peers in New Zealand and teacher study visits to New Zealand have taken place during the pilot.