PCM Academy

Yangon & Mandalay

Centre details

Yangon & Mandalay Myanmar (Burma)

Study areas
Business Management
Travel, Tourism and Hospitality: Industry-ready qualifications

Available qualifications

Qualification number
610/6656/4
Number of units
1
Guided learning hours
40
Credits
10

If you want to develop a career in this sector or progress to higher-level study in related disciplines, this qualification will give you a quick insight. You'll gain essential knowledge, understanding, and skills required in the tourism and travel industry. 

The qualification aims to:

  • Develop employability-enhancing skills such as communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and customer care.
  • Offer opportunities for progression to higher education or entry-level roles within tourism, travel, or hospitality organisations.
  • Develop your understanding of the structure, characteristics, and importance of the tourism industry within a global context.

Resources include a tutor guide and a study guide.

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Qualification number
610/6657/6
Number of units
1
Guided learning hours
40
Credits
10

With this qualification, you will gain the essential knowledge, understanding, and skills required in the hospitality industry. It offers a foundation from which you can develop your career in the sector or progress to higher-level study in related disciplines.

The qualification aims to:

  • Develop employability-enhancing skills such as communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and customer care.
  • Offer opportunities for progression to higher education or entry-level roles within tourism, travel, or hospitality organisations.

Additional aims are to:

  • Develop your understanding of the structure, characteristics, and importance of the hospitality industry within a global context.
  • Provide knowledge of key operational and service areas, including travel, accommodation, food and beverage, and customer service.
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Qualification number
610/6658/8
Number of units
3
Guided learning hours
120
Credits
30

With this qualification, you'll gain the essential knowledge, understanding, and skills in the tourism and hospitality industries. This qualification will give you a solid grounding from which you can develop a career or progress to higher-level study in related disciplines.

The qualification aims to:

  • Provide you with employability-enhancing skills such as communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and customer care.
  • Offer opportunities for progression to higher education or entry-level roles within tourism, travel, or hospitality organisations.

Additional aims are to:

  • Develop your understanding of the structure, characteristics, and importance of the hospitality and tourism industry within a global context.
  • Provide you with knowledge of key operational and service areas, including travel, accommodation, food and beverage, and customer service.
  • Develop understanding of the contemporary issues, emerging trends, and challenges that influence tourism destinations and tourism and hospitality businesses.
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Qualification number
610/6674/6
Number of units
3
Guided learning hours
130
Credits
30

This qualification provides you with essential knowledge to develop a career in the travel and tourism sector, underpinned by a foundation of general business knowledge.  It also offers a springboard to higher-level study in related disciplines.

The qualification aims to:

  • Develop employability-enhancing skills such as communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and customer care.
  • Offer opportunities for progression to higher education or entry-level roles within tourism, travel, or hospitality organisations.
  • Develop your understanding of the structure, characteristics, and importance of the tourism industry within a global context.
  • Develop your’ understanding of the structure, characteristics, and importance of the hospitality industry within a global context.
  • Provide knowledge of key operational and service areas, including travel, accommodation, food and beverage, and customer service.

In addition to the two compulsory units you select one of four optional Business units with the following aims:

  • To equip you with fundamental business skills, knowledge and understanding.
  • To equip you with knowledge and understanding of business organisations.
  • To equip you with knowledge and skills in relation to finance skills.
  • To equip you with knowledge of the skills needed to be an effective leader.
  • To equip you with knowledge and skills in relation to operational management and IT in business. 
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Qualification number
610/6659/X
Number of units
4
Guided learning hours
160
Credits
40

With this qualification, you will gain the knowledge, understanding, and skills required to succeed in the tourism and hospitality industries. The qualification offers broad sector insight that will help you forge a career or progress to higher-level study in related disciplines.

The qualification aims to:

  • Provide you with employability-enhancing skills such as communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and customer care.
  • Offer opportunities for progression to higher education or entry-level roles within tourism, travel, or hospitality organisations.

Additional aims are to:

  • Develop understanding of the structure, characteristics, and importance of the hospitality and tourism industry within a global context.
  • Provide knowledge of key operational and service areas, including travel, accommodation, food and beverage, and customer service.
  • Develop understanding of contemporary issues, emerging trends and challenges that influence tourism destinations and tourism and hospitality businesses.
  • Equip you with the skills to build and manage effective customer relationships, contributing to service quality and business success.
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Qualification number
610/5395/8
Number of units
12
Guided learning hours
600
Credits
120
This future-facing, skills-focused qualification provides a comprehensive overview of the elements that are needed in a business, from leadership to innovation to marketing and finance.  It develops a wide-ranging skill set that opens the door to many career paths, along with a strong foundation of knowledge to support progression to higher education.

All leadership units have been developed with The Institute of Leadership and, to support your studies, ABE provides a study guide for every unit.  

Develop essential knowledge and abilities

On successful completion of this qualification, you will:

  • Understand different types of business organisation and the factors that can affect them.
  • Know the legal, ethical and social requirements that relate to businesses.
  • Understand business controls and how to measure performance.
  • Understand the advantages and disadvantages of enterprise and entrepreneurship.
  • Understand the skills and characteristics required of an entrepreneur.
  • Know how to write and pitch a business plan.
  • Understand business finance and financial reporting
  • Recognise how leadership models and theories are applied.
  • Understand the skills and behaviours required for effective leadership along with the ability to identify your personal leadership strengths and areas for development.
  • Know how to plan a marketing campaign.
  • Understand the fundamental concepts in project management.
  • Recognise the role of IT systems and hardware in business.
  • Understand the importance of innovation in business and the process of intrapreneurship.
  • Understand stakeholder relationships and how to manage them.
  • Understand how leaders motivate and support individuals to achieve goals and objectives.
Future-proof your skills:

Based on the World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report, here are the core skills you will develop from the most sought-after employer requirements anticipated for 2030:

  • Analytical thinking
  • Resilience, flexibility and agility
  • Leadership and social influence
  • Empathy and active listening
  • Curiosity and lifelong learning
  • Motivation and self-awareness
  • Creative thinking
  • Technological literacy
  • Talent management

Level 3 is at the same difficulty level as an A level.

Scroll down for unit details.  For a full overview, including learning outcomes, download the qualification specification.

This qualification is one of several new Level 3 programmes available from ABE.  Click here for more information about the new Level 3 suite. Click here to be kept updated when new qualifications are available near you.

International Baccalaureate

ABE will be collaborating with International Baccalaureate as a Career-related Study (CRS) provider in the Asia-Pacific region. This partnership will support schools in delivering the IB Career-related Programme (CP), empowering students to excel in career-focused education.  This qualification is part of ABE's CRS provision.

UCAS Tariff Points for UK University/College Entry

We have UCAS tariff points confirmed for this qualification. Please refer to the table below for details.

UCAS tariff points are used by UK universities and colleges to determine whether a student meets the entry requirements for a particular course.

P - Pass | M - Merit | D - Distinction

Grade

Grade Band

Tariff Points

P

4

8

M

8

16

D

12

24

 

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Qualification number
603/1572/6
Number of units
8
Guided learning hours
600
Credits
120
This qualification provides a thorough grounding in Business Management, along with a great springboard for progressing to the next academic level.

 

With this qualification you will gain the following essential knowledge and abilities:
  • Understanding dynamic business environments and how to respond to them.
  • Understanding organisational structures and their suitability for different business types.
  • Self-reflection to develop and enhance your employability.
  • Practical skills in business financial planning.
  • Knowledge of how to innovate, develop and grow a business.
  • Quantitative thinking and data-driven business decisions.
  • Project management theory and effective operations.
  • Understanding the dynamics needed to lead, manage and motivate successful teams and evaluate your skillset to optimise input.

Includes a helpful study guide for every unit.

You will develop the future skills you need

Based on the World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report, here are the core skills you will develop from the top five most sought-after employer requirements for 2030:

  • Analytical thinking
  • Flexibility and agility
  • Creative thinking
  • Leadership
  • Self-awareness

Level 4 is at the same difficulty level as year one of a three-year Bachelors degree.

Scroll down for unit details.  For a full overview, including learning outcomes, download the qualification specification.

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Qualification number
603/1596/9
Number of units
6
Guided learning hours
420
Credits
120
A great springboard for your career in a business or management-related role or for progressing to the next academic level. This qualification develops strategic understanding of business theory and practical application. Every unit comes with a helpful study guide.
 
This qualification develops the following essential knowledge and abilities:
 
  • Responding to volatile and complex business scenarios.
  • Evaluating business performance and understanding the impact of innovation.
  • Critical and theoretical knowledge to make informed financial decisions.
  • Understanding how multinational organisations operate and adapt in dynamic, ever-changing international marketplaces.
     
You will develop further skills in two of the following business management areas: 
 
  • Successful supply chain management, logistics and operations.
  • Using accurate and relevant information and data to make critical business decisions.
  • Stakeholder management to overcome threats, take advantage of opportunities and protect brand reputation.

Includes a study guide for every unit.


Future-proof your skills:


Based on the World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report, here are the core skills you will develop from the top five most sought-after employer requirements for 2030:

  • Analytical thinking
  • Flexibility and agility
  • Creative thinking
  • Leadership
  • Self-awareness
     

Level 5 is the same difficulty level as year two of a Bachelors degree. 

Scroll down for unit details.  For a full overview, including learning outcomes, download the qualification specification.

In addition to compulsory units please choose any two from the 'Other units' list

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Qualification number
603/1600/7
Number of units
6
Guided learning hours
300
Credits
120
This qualification develops the theoretical knowledge and strategic skillset needed to excel in a business management/leadership role. It will also prepare you for Masters Level study or the final stages of a Bachelors degree.
With this qualification you will develop the following essential knowledge and abilities:
  • Identifying the drivers for strategic change and understanding how to lead an organisation and its stakeholders through change.
  • Modelling and scenario-building to support strategic decision-making, and evaluating business strategies in varied market contexts.
  • Understanding markets and developing strategies to successfully enter new global markets.
  • Knowing how ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability should be applied in business operations.
You will also have the opportunity to develop in two of the following business leadership areas: 
  • Identifying and managing stakeholder relationships that have a strategic significance to your organisation.
  • Knowing how, when and where to seek finance and investment opportunities.
  • Applying advanced principles, practices and techniques vital to the successful leadership and commercial management of complex projects.
Future proof your skills

Based on the World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report, here are core skills you will develop from the top five most sought-after employer requirements for 2030:

  • Analytical thinking
  • Flexibility and agility
  • Leadership
  • Self-awareness

Level 6 is at the same level as the final year of a Bachelors degree. 

For a detailed overview (including learning outcomes by unit) download the qualification specification, or scroll down to see unit details.

In addition to compulsory units, please choose any two from the 'Other units' list

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