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 ambitions, ABE is here to help you succeed.

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ABE offers outstanding Diplomas in Business Management, Human Resources, Marketing and Leadership.  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 on the solid foundation of practical workplace skills and strategic thinking
  • 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) and 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 business management-based Diplomas, we offer a fantastic range of shorter qualifications which develop skills in sustainability and leadership.  Like our longer Diplomas, these qualification suites are workplace and skills-focused.

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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 

Leadership (Business Suite)
Essential skills for leaders of the future

This suite is developed with sector experts, The Institute of Leadership.  It offers a dynamic and skills-focused approach to modern leadership supported by a focus on Business Management principles. 

Executive Leadership Suite
For working professionals wanting to bring their best to a leadership role

Whether you're an emerging leader or a senior professional shaping strategic direction, ABE’s Executive Leadership qualifications build the confidence, clarity, and impact needed to lead effectively in today’s fast-paced environment.

Sustainability
The smart choice for your career, your organisation and our planet

The ABE suite of Sustainability qualifications is designed to help learners and organisations build the skills needed to drive meaningful environmental and organisational change.

Entrepreneurship
Skills to help you start your own small enterprise.

Develop an entrepreneurial mindset along with the basics of what it takes to run a business.

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.

Legacy short qualifications
These are qualifications which are nearing the of their lifecycle

Certificates cannot be issued after 30 June 2026.

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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