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One year BTEC Level 3 Advanced Diploma in Banking & Finance (QCF)

 

BTEC Banking and FinanceThe Level 3 BTEC Advanced Diploma in Banking and Finance is designed to provide:

  • education and training for those in the banking and finance industry with a responsibility to provide appropriate and professional services
  • opportunities for persons working or wishing to have a career in the banking and finance industry to achieve a recognised Level 3 vocationally-specific qualification
  • opportunities for full-time or part-time learners to gain a recognised vocationally- specific qualification to enter employment in the field of banking and finance or to progress to further vocational qualifications such as the Level 5 BTEC Advanced Professional Diploma in Banking and Finance or other appropriate qualifications
  • the knowledge, understanding and skills learners need to process for effective employment or career progression
  • opportunities for learners to focus on the development of the major key skills and the wider key skills, such as improving own learning and performance, problem solving and working with others, in a banking and finance context opportunities for learners to develop a range of skills and techniques, personal
  • qualities and attitudes essential for successful performance in working life.


Structure of the qualification

To achieve the whole qualification, a learner must successfully complete ten core and eight
specialist units.

 

Core Units
Unit 1 The Nature of Banking
Unit 2 Main Banking Services
Unit 3 Banking Delivery Systems
Unit 4 Regulation of Banking and Banking Services
Unit 5 Banking Operations — an Overview
Unit 6 Money Transmission
Unit 7 Operating Customer Accounts
Unit 8 The Banker — Customer Relationships, Rights and Duties
Unit 9 Risk and it’s Management
Unit 10 The Canons of Lending
   

Specialist Units
Unit 11 Accounting Practice
Unit 12 Interpreting Accounts: the use and abuse of ratio analysis
Unit 13 International Services
Unit 16 The UK Economy
Unit 18 Ethics and Fair Treatment of People through Customer Service
Unit 20 Marketing Financial Services
Unit 22 Mortgages
Unit 25 Islamic Banking

 

Assessment

The units are assessed using a variety of methods, including case studies, assignments and work-based assessments, along with projects, performance observation and time-constrained assessments.


Entry Requirements

Students must have:


a) 5 GCSEs, including Maths or an equivalent qualifications
b) For speakers of other languages, an IELTS at 5.5 or higher

 

More mature learners may present a more varied profile of achievement that is likely to include experience of paid and/or unpaid employment.

 

Course Commencement & Duration

September, January and July
Duration: ONE YEAR

 

This qualification can be offered as a two year course leading to the Professional Diploma in Banking and Finance at Level 5.

 

Tuition Fee

£ 3,500

 

Progression

Students may progress onto BTEC Level 5 (HND) or university