More opportunities with ABE
ABE works with colleges, schools, training providers, employers, government bodies and NGOs, and universities to develop career skills and open pathways to further study. Whether you want to expand your curriculum, deliver professional training, add value to your own courses or welcome ABE learners onto your degree programmes, explore how we can work together.
Choose Ofqual-regulated qualifications, license ready-to-deliver Future Workskills programmes, or seek ABE endorsement for your own training.
Find the right option for your type of organisation:
- Colleges and ABE centres
- Schools
- Training providers and employers
- Universities
- Government bodies and NGOs
Colleges and centres
Expand your offer. Support your learners’ ambitions.
For further education colleges and private education providers, ABE offers internationally recognised, Ofqual-regulated qualifications that combine practical business skills with university progression opportunities.
Build your provision around business management, human resources, marketing, leadership and entrepreneurship, or broaden your portfolio with specialist qualifications in project management, sustainability, and travel, tourism and hospitality. Explore qualifications and courses for all the options.
As an ABE-accredited centre, you benefit from teaching and learning resources, assessment guidance and marketing support to help you attract learners. ABE's reputation for quality and relevance will enhance the credibility of any centre offering our qualifications.
Our Endorsed service is popular with centres that have developed their own programmes and want to strengthen their programmes’ credibility and marketability through independent quality assurance.
Find out more about: Becoming an ABE-accredited centre.
Enquire about licensing Future Workskills.
Schools
Bring business learning to life.
Help students understand the world of work, develop entrepreneurial thinking and prepare for their next stage of education. Demonstrate to parents and other stakeholders your commitment to future skills.
ABE’s Level 3 qualifications offer schools opportunities to teach business, leadership, entrepreneurship, and travel, tourism and hospitality. They combine practical relevance with the reassurance of Ofqual regulation and international recognition and have a strong focus on developing skills for further study, the changing workplace and future skills.
For younger students, ABE Business Builder offers a practical, teacher-led introduction to entrepreneurship. Over ten sessions, students develop a business idea, build a realistic business plan and present their final pitch, strengthening teamwork, financial understanding, entrepreneurial thinking and communication skills.
Explore: ABE for Schools
Training providers and employers
Deliver relevant skills. Develop new opportunities.
Expand your commercial training offer or build capability within your own workforce through ABE’s practical professional development programmes and qualifications. Employers value the business skills and practical approach that ABE qualifications develop. Explore qualifications and courses for all the options.
Our Future Workskills courses provide ready-to-deliver training for the changing workplace, including the effective and responsible use of AI. Available under licence, they come with comprehensive teaching materials to reduce preparation time and support consistent delivery.
If you develop your own training programmes, ABE Endorsed adds value to your offer with independent quality assurance and certification for successful participants.
Find out more about: Becoming an ABE-accredited centre. Enquire about licensing Future Workskills.
Universities
Connect with ambitious learners. Build progression partnerships.
Work with ABE to create routes onto your undergraduate or postgraduate programmes. By recognising relevant ABE qualifications for entry or credit exemptions, your university can connect with learners seeking their next academic step. Our annual leaners suvey shows more than half of all ABE learners are looking for Bachelors or Masters progression.
We support confirmed progression routes by promoting them through our website and communications. Entry requirements and exemptions are determined by each university for relevant degree programmes.
Universities can also become accredited to deliver ABE qualifications, broadening their provision with business and professional programmes that support employment and further study.
Explore: University progression partnerships · Accreditation for delivery
Government bodies and NGOs
Build skills. Widen opportunity. Support lasting change.
ABE works with government bodies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the UK and internationally to support funded education and capacity-building initiatives.
Whether you are helping people into employment, supporting entrepreneurship or strengthening workforce capability, we can help you identify qualifications and practical programmes suited to your beneficiaries and objectives.
Our focus on business, management and entrepreneurial skills supports initiatives that help individuals improve their prospects and contribute to their organisations and communities.
Discuss your funded learning or capacity-building plans with an ABE Director.
Let’s discuss your plans
Whether you are new to ABE or looking to expand an existing partnership, we can help you identify the qualifications, programmes or progression opportunities that suit your organisation.