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Future-proof your career path with the UWS Graduate Apprenticeship in Business Management. Our GA degree programme allows you to transform your career prospects and contribute to your organisation’s growth.
Delivered from our award-winning Lanarkshire campus, the UWS BA (Hons) Business Management Graduate Apprenticeship is an innovative degree programme delivered through a combination of work-based learning, on-campus workshops, and online study. The programme is open to new and existing employees in Scotland and uses modern innovative teaching practice with blended learning, industry led projects, and innovative work-based assessment to balance theory with your day-to-day work in your organisation.
Our Graduate Apprenticeship programme is designed to allow apprentices to become fully immersed in practical work-based learning projects while also cultivating professional management skills in time management, enquiry-based research, and problem-based learning. While navigating this voyage of transformative learning, you will acquire deep knowledge across various business management subjects, equipping you with the essential skills that modern business require.
During your time at UWS you will also be supported by a dedicated team of lecturers and academic staff who will support you on your learning journey.
The work-based component of the programme is a significant and central part of the programme here at UWS. Graduate Apprenticeships are built on a partnership between employers and learning providers allowing students to draw on, and share their workplace experience and insights, and apply this to their individual assessment submissions. Your learning will be integrated with your workplace activities and your learning and skills are applied in a professional environment right from day one; your learning will be applied to your workplace environment. As a Graduate Apprentice you will be uniquely placed to integrate your academic skills, knowledge, and practices with workplace practices.
Here at UWS we assign each learner a UWS Link Tutor to work in partnership with the learner and the appointment of a work-based mentor. Will this partnership agreement in place, the Graduate Apprenticeship Business Management degree programme provides apprentices with the knowledge, understanding, and skills required to be a successful professional in a wide variety of Business environments.
Natalie MacKenzie, one of our Graduate Apprentices on the BA (Hons) Business Management, is employed with S & C Engineering:
The GA at UWS is a fantastic way to put learning into practice in my workplace straight away!
Louis McGuire (GA Business Management) currently working for DHL said:
The Graduate Apprenticeship Programme has opened my eyes to a world of real opportunity and endless possibilities. I’ve had the chance to gain valuable work experience whilst developing my academic understanding of the world of business and relate these theories to my current workplace.
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The Graduate Apprenticeship in Business Management has a flexible admission approach and is open to existing and new recruits with applications considered on an individual basis with input from employers.
Employment: All applicants must be in employment (minimum of 21 hours per week) in a role related to the course of study, must have the right to live and work in Scotland and be working in Scotland. You can apply if you are aged 16 or over and there is no maximum age limit. The employer must commit to providing a suitable workplace environment and to offering guidance and mentoring support to the apprentice with the appointment of a work-based mentor.
Your application will be assessed on an individual basis, taking into consideration any previous industry experience you may have. If you have already completed a Foundation or Modern Apprenticeship in a related subject, this will also contribute towards meeting the entry requirements.
An appropriate Foundation Apprenticeship, Modern Apprenticeship or HNC/D award with the level of entry and/or credit awarded being subject to the content of the programme. Applicants may also be considered with other academic, vocational or professional qualifications deemed to be equivalent.
For those applicants who do not meet our Standard Course Entry Requirements, applications may be considered from those who possess one years’ relevant work experience and where the applicant has demonstrated the development of key skills evidenced through a detailed CV and supporting personal statement. Applications from students with non- standard qualifications (including Foundation Apprenticeships, Modern Apprenticeships, SVQs/NVQs and access programmes) or work experience will be considered on an individual basis.
Applicants who are interested in applying for advanced entry will be considered on an individual basis. Applicants may also be considered with other academic, vocational, or professional qualifications deemed to be equivalent.
This GA in Business Management is a Work-based Learning course which has been developed in partnership with Industry, the education sector and Skills Development Scotland (SDS). This ensures that graduate learning is aligned to Industry needs.
This course fully embraces the principles of Work-Based Learning. It is delivered over four years and you will undertake 120 credits per year (three terms per year). Work-based learning and work-based assessment will form the backbone of the course.
You will be taught by our GA teaching team is made up of subject-matter experts from the School of Business and Enterprise who deliver business modules through personalised tuition, support and feedback.
As well as our team of delivery experts behind the scenes, UWS also allocates the following team of dedicated GA professionals to support companies and apprentices:
Introduction to Marketing (20 Credits)
Introduction to Accounting & Finance (20 Credits)
Work Based Learning 1 (WBL1) (40 Credits)
*20 credit optional module
Year 1 Course Requirements
People, Planet and Profit (20 Credits)
Operations Management (20 Credits)
Organisational Behaviour (20 Credits)
Work Based Learning 2 (WBL2) (40 Credits)
*20 credit optional module
Year 2 Course Requirements
Fundamentals of Leadership (20 Credits)
Marketing Communications Mix (20 Credits)
Research Design and Methods (20 Credits)
Work Based Learning 3 (WBL3) (40 Credits)
*20 credit optional module
Year 3 Course Requirements
Business in the Age of Acceleration (20 Credits)
Organisational Change in Practice (20 Credits)
Responsible Ethical Management (20 Credits)
Work Based Learning Dissertation (WBL4) (40 Credits)
*20 credit optional module
Year 4 Course Requirements
The programme is delivered through blended learning with much of the learning delivered through Work-based Learning. There will also be Online Lectures as well as On-Campus workshops.
Assessment is through a number of methods including:
Graduate Apprenticeships are fully funded through Scottish Funding Council and Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS) and supported by Skills Development Scotland. Once you have been offered a Graduate Apprenticeship place, you should apply to SAAS for funding, who will pay your tuition fees directly to the university. There are no associated learning costs to the Graduate Apprenticeship employer.
All Graduate Apprenticeship applicants must meet SAAS eligibility and residence conditions to apply. Visit the SAAS website for more information.
For individuals and businesses who wish to find out more about, or apply to the BA (Hons) Business Management Graduate Apprenticeship, please contact our team at apprenticeships@uws.ac.uk
Gary Gillon
Graduate Apprenticeship Programme Leader - BA (Hons) Business Management
School of Business & Creative Industries
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