Qualifications

ABE qualifications will help you excel. Whether you're a working professional wishing to add to your skillset, an aspiring entrepreneur or an ambitious young learner wanting qualifications that will help you achieve your future ambitions, ABE is here to help you succeed.

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ABE offers professional Diplomas in Business Management, Human Resources and Marketing.  These officially recognised qualifications are designed to give our graduates the most dynamic and up to date skill set on the market.  Top reasons people choose ABE are:

  • To build a great career
  • To top up to a university degree quickly and affordably
  • To enjoy flexibility  – units can be studied in any order and over any time period

What's more, ABE is recognised by Ofqual (the UK government's qualifications regulator for England) as well as by similar bodies internationally. You can be assured that your qualification has international recognition and meets the standards required by respected, education authorities.

In addition to our professional Diplomas, we offer a fantastic range of short course qualifications which develop skills in employability and entrepreneurship.

For more information about our qualification levels download our Equivalency flyer below: 

96% of members say they are confident the knowledge and skills gained from ABE studies will help them achieve their long-term goals. Read our survey.

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Qualification subjects

Business Management
Develop exceptional business skills from the sector specialists

Cost-effective, professional qualifications, offering a winning combination of academic expertise underpinned by practical workplace skills to ensure you excel in a management role.  

Business Management & Human Resources
Gain a business management overview with an HR specialism

Being able to offer HR expertise, together with a wide-ranging strategic understanding of business management, provides ABE qualification holders with more options and an enviable skill set.

Business Management & Marketing
Gain a business management overview with marketing expertise

Being able to offer marketing skills, along with a wide-ranging strategic understanding of business management, provides ABE qualification holders with more options and an enviable skill set 

Business Start-up and Entrepreneurship
Skills to help you start your own small enterprise.

These short single-unit qualifications provide a foundation of knowledge to help you start and run a small business.

Employability
Get yourself work ready and market yourself to propective employers

A short single unit qualification that develops skills essential to the modern job seeker and shows you how to highlight your strengths in order to improve your chances of employment.

Applied Financial Trading
Exclusively available through the London Academy of Trading

This qualification aims to provide the necessary understanding of financial trading in order for you to work in this sector or improve your competency if are already involved in trading.

Only available at the London Academy of Trading.

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Information about ABE's previous qualifications or units

ABE's current RQF syllabus was fully launched in 2018.  

If you have passed units from the previous QCF framework and have not yet completed your qualification we have a credit transfer policy which offers recognition of prior learning - you can access the policy and credit transfer application form below,

Recognition of Prior Learning