About the programme:

Edexcel Pearson BTEC Level 5 HND (BTEC Higher National Diploma) in Sports is designed to provide specialist vocational skills, linked to professional body requirements and with a strong work related emphasis. The qualifications provide a thorough grounding in the key concepts and practical skills required in their specialist sector and their wide recognition by employers allows progression directly into employment. Pearson Edexcel BTEC Higher National gives a strong emphasis on practical skills development alongside the development of requisite knowledge and understanding in the business sector. The course prepares students for business careers in the public, private and voluntary sectors. BTEC HND is well established UK qualifications with a proven track record of success This UK Sports degree offers credit transfer facility to UK universities.

Students should be able to:

• apply legally relevant knowledge of academic, doctrinal and factual contexts, and learning outcomes of each unit;
• distinguish between relevant and irrelevant facts, and then apply the law or relevant abstract concepts so as to produce satisfactory answers to fact-based problems posed;
• identify and justify potential alternative solutions, create his/her own rationally supported conclusions for a particular solution (as appropriate to the task and level);
• Demonstrate the ability to use appropriately and develop progressively the preceding skills over a range of subject areas in relation to both academic and practical problems.
• identify issues requiring research, to formulate objectives and, where appropriate, formulate a credible methodology for research;
• find up-to-date and archived information both by traditional and electronic means;
• analyse and apply academic and legal primary and secondary sources, assessing their relative value;