Access to Higher Education Diploma (Law and Business) - September 2025

Course content

Our Access Law and Business programme provides learners with a wide choice of units to support progression into Law and Business degree programmes. The mandatory group of units ensures that learners have a good understanding of themes relevant to Law and Business including key topics in Business Organisations and Strategy, Business Planning and Budgeting, Contract Law, External Factors Affecting Business, Introduction to Law and The Law of Tort.

In addition to the graded units, mandatory and optional ungraded units will be delivered to support underpinning skills for work within the sector and for further academic study.

The Access Law and Business programme will be awarded to learners who successfully achieve an approved combination of units through a Portfolio of Evidence.

Learners will complete a planned, balanced and coherent programme of study, through which they will be able to acquire subject knowledge and develop academic skills that are relevant to the intended progression route(s). our delivery includes a balance of units that allow learners to study a broad range of topics until they have fully decided on their preferred route at degree level. Our ungraded units have been selected to support both progression into Higher Education and also allow learners to develop skills relevant to the subject area.

During your programme we aim to:

• • offer a responsive, supportive return to learning at a level appropriate for entry to Higher Education.
• • develop the appropriate skills, such as study skills, necessary to enable learners to succeed in their Higher Education career.
• • address issues of widening participation and social inclusion.
• • raise learner awareness of the opportunities that a return to study and lifelong learning can bring.