Foundation Year- Qualifi Level 3 Diploma in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship

QUALIFI qualifications look to provide a realistic and broad opportunity for learners seeking career and professional development. They will support learners in realising their potential and provide clear objectives.
These objectives are to:
• provide career path support to learners who wish to develop their management skills, enterprise capabilities and opportunities in their chosen sector
• improve learner understanding of any given business environments and organisations and how they are managed and developed
• develop skills and abilities in learners to support their professional development.

The qualification has been designed to be accessible without artificial barriers learners will be expected to hold the following:
• qualifications at Level 2 and/or;
• work experience in business sector and demonstrate ambition with clear career goals;
• a Level 3 qualification in another discipline and want to develop their careers in business.

Learners completing the QUALIFI Level 3 Diploma in Business innovation and Entrepreneurship will allow progress to:
• the QUALIFI Level 4 Certificate in Business Management, or
• the first year of undergraduate study in a related subject; or
• directly into employment in an associated profession.

This qualification is vocational, and it can support a learner's career progression. To meet QUALIFI’s aim to provide an appropriate assessment method each unit will be assessed through tasks that will be written in a way to make them realistic ‘work-related’ tasks wherever possible. Learners will need to demonstrate knowledge, understanding and. Original thought, problem solving and recommendations on actions will also be asked for from learners where appropriate for the unit. Intellectual rigour will be expected appropriate to the level of the qualification. Assignments will contain a question strand for each of the given unit’s learning outcomes. The assignment tasks will address the LO (learning outcome) and AC (assessment criteria) requirements. Within assignments there will always be requirements for learners to engage with important and relevant theory that underpins the subject area. The assignment questions will require learners to draw on real organisations to illustrate their answers. To support this activity during the programme of learning, centres are required to make sure that they include case studies of relevant organisations and, wherever possible, facilitate incompany opportunities for learners to undertake research and investigation projects and/or support the organisation with various tasks. Mature and part-time learners will ideally be able to draw on their personal work experience too. Sample assessments and marking scheme are available on request as part of the Qualification Specification supplied to centres. QUALIFI has an assessment policy and procedure documents that are available to all centres delivering this qualification. QUALIFI’s ‘Handbook on Guidance and Requirements for Assessment and Marking’ covers the following:
• assessment strategy
• assessment arrangements for learners with a disability
• verification
• marking scheme/pass mark
• deferral after valid mitigating circumstances
• referral after failure
• dealing with difficulties in meeting assessment deadlines
• late submissions
• assessment boards/appeals
• cheating and plagiarism/referencing
• confidential material • submissions

Learners must complete all units and pass the appropriate mark to receive the full Diploma Award. QUALIFI will issue certificates to all successful students through the registered centres.

Where a candidate has achieved an overall average mark of at least 70% from all the units, QUALIFI may award a Distinction, although offering such a grade to individual candidates is at the discretion of QUALIFI and is not normally given after any successful referral attempts.
Decisions about the overall classification of awards are made by QUALIFI through the application of the academic and relevant course regulations. It is based on the Average Percentage Mark (APM) or, at the discretion of QUALIFI, on the basis of your overall profile and performance subject to the minimum requirements.

Yes, your Progression routes to Qualifi Level 4 Certificate or first of 3 year Honours Degree at UK University