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The rise of the Business BTECs
4th August 2011
Where have all the GCSE Business Studies students gone in recent years? The bottom line is that many have been switched to non-examined BTEC courses, as this little piece of analysis indicates…
I’ve delved into the latest BTEC results published by Edexcel which report on the calendar year results gained at Level 2 and Level 3 from 1 June 2010 to 31 May 2011 for all BTEC courses. I’ve separated the BTEC Business courses and summarised the volume of learners being awarded qualifications into the following table:
134,000 students getting Level 2 awards in BTEC business in 2010/11; the vast majority in schools rather than FE Colleges. Thats a significant number - no wonder that GCSE Business enrolment has fallen so much in recent years.