Course Overview

Entry requirements

GCSE Average Points Score: 3.50, Grade 4 English Language GCSE, Grade 4 Maths GCSE, 5 GCSEs at Grade 4

Course information

If you are ultimately looking for a career as a Personal Assistant or an Office Manager, then this course covering advanced administration skills is the one for you! This course has a mixture of practical and theory based units covering a wide range of advanced administration topics.

You will develop your ICT skills by studying text production and word processing and finally to put everything you have studied into practice, you'll undertake two weeks' work experience.

Key topics

Producing complex business documents

Supporting recruitment and selection procedures

Understanding functions and roles within a business environment

Verbal communication

Supporting business meetings

Organising business events

Reviewing and developing office procedures and legislation affecting businesses.

How you are assessed

The core business administration units are assessed through completion of externally set coursework tasks. The text production and word processing units are assessed through examinations.

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Dates

Start: 01/09/2025

End: 03/07/2026

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What Can This Course Lead To

Progress to university, further study or employment.

On completion of the course you should have developed advanced secretarial skills and should gain employment within an office environment. Alternatively you might like to continue studying and enrol on the HNC Business programme.

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