Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Entry Level
Pearson BTEC Entry Level Award in Sustainability Skills (Entry 3)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Entry Level
- Total credits6
- Guided learning56 hours
- Units in this qualification39
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson Education Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Community actionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate their knowledge of local community groups
- Demonstrate their participation in community activities
Community actionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an understanding of the role that community groups play
- Demonstrate their involvement in community activities
Dealing with Problems in daily lifeReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to recognize a straightforward problem
- Tackle a problem
- Carry out a review of their progress towards solving the problem
Dealing with Problems in daily lifeReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Recognize a straightforward problem and identify ways to tackle it
- Plan and carry out activities to tackle a problem
- Carry out a review of their methods and the skills they used in tackling the problem
Developing Personal Skills For LeadershipReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the main features of leadership
- Plan how to demonstrate leadership skills
- Prepare for a leadership activity
Developing Personal Skills For LeadershipReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the main features of leadership
- Understand how to make decisions
- Understand how to give instructions to members of a group
- Understand how to give and receive feedback about a task or activity
Developing selfReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to identify areas for self development
- Understand how to take responsibility for their own self development
- Demonstrate how they have developed personal skills
Exploring the impact of diversity in our communitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the diverse nature of a local community
- Understand how attitudes about diversity can influence behaviour
- Recognise and challenge discrimination
- Understand own attitudes and behaviours towards diversity
Exploring the impact of diversity in our communitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know how attitudes about diversity can influence behaviour
- Understand diverse values in the local community
- Recognise and challenge discrimination
Healthy LifestylesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Lead a healthy lifestyle
- Understand the impact of high risk behaviours on others
- Balance work, leisure and exercise and stay healthy
Healthy LivingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle
- Demonstrate how they contribute to own healthy lifestyle
- Review the activities undertaken to maintain a healthy lifestyle
Healthy LivingReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is needed to lead a healthy lifestyle
- Demonstrate how they contribute to own healthy lifestyle
Healthy lifestylesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the importance of emotional and mental health
- Understand the benefits and risks of health and lifestyle choices
- Make informed choices in order to lead a healthy lifestyle
Individual rights and responsibilitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand that they have individual rights and responsibilities
Individual rights and responsibilitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand their individual rights
- Understand their individual responsibilities
Learning from More Experienced PeopleReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand situations where they might interact with more experienced people
- Understand how more experienced people work effectively
- Understand how they can improve their performance by learning from those who have more experience
- Review what they have learned from more experienced people
Managing Social RelationshipsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to interact with others in familiar social situations
- Demonstrate how to interact with others in familiar social situations
Personal and Social RelationshipsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know why relationships are important
- Understand how relationships can be developed
- Use social skills in relationships
Personal and Social RelationshipsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the importance of social skills in complex relationships
- Understand how emotions can influence personal and social relationships
- Show respect and responsibility in personal and social relationships
Practising Leadership Skills with OthersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to lead agroup activity
- Demonstrate effectiveleadership skills with others
- Evaluate their leadershipperformance
Practising Leadership Skills with OthersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand leadership skills they could practise with others
- Demonstrate leadership skills in a group
- Review their practice of leadership skills
Procurement and Waste ManagementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of sustainable procurement
- Understand the waste hierarchy
- Manage waste safely and legally
- Undertake a procurement/waste management audit to meet given objectives
Project in SustainabilityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a project to promote sustainability in their place of study
- Undertake a practical sustainability project
- Present the results of a sustainability project
- Reflect on the sustainability project
Purchasing and Waste ManagementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the principles of sustainable purchasing
- Manage waste safely and legally
- Apply their knowledge of sustainable purchasing and waste management in a given scenario
- Devise a campaign to promote sustainable purchasing and waste management
Rights and responsibilties of a citizen in a democracyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know how human rights are protected
- Understand the rights and responsibilities of employers, employees and consumers
- Plan for active citizenship
Rights and responsibilties of a citizen in a democracyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the rights of citizens
- Know the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy
- Understand the role of the media in a democracy
- Know how citizens can influence decisions
Shopping and Waste ManagementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the definition of sustainable personal shopping
- Know waste that can be reduced, reused, recycled or composted
- Apply their understanding of waste management in a practical scenario
- Identify facilities for sustainable waste management
Sustainability and Our EnvironmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know why sustainability is important
- Know how sustainability meets our needs
Sustainable BuildingsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the application of sustainability on the built environment
- Understand how sustainability benefits our built environment
- Know how sustainable design and construction improves our built environment
Sustainable BuildingsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the importance of sustainability for the environment
- Protect our environment
- Understand the application of sustainable materials
The changing nature of society in the UKReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the development of individual rights and freedoms in the UK
- Know about cultural identity
- Understand the origins of diversity in the UK
- Promote community cohesion through shared values
The role of the United Kingdom in Worldwide OrganisationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the role of the UK in the European Union
- Know the role of the UK within the Commonwealth
- Know the role of the United Nations in the context of topical events
Understanding Personal IdentityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about factors that influence personal identity
- Understand how the media portrays young people
- Link personal identity to making a positive contribution to society
Working in a TeamReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know about team working
- Match their strengths and interests to a team task
- Know their own role and responsibilities in relation to a team task
- Work positively as a member of a team
- Understand their performance as a member of a team
Working in a TeamReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand that effective team-work requires team members to behave in certain ways
- Understand how own strengths, skills and experiences may contribute to a team task
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of team members (including their own) in relation to a given task
- Work positively as a member of a team
- Consider their performance as a member of a team
Working in a TeamReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the advantages and disadvantages of having a team complete a task
- Understand the need for a team to work to an agreed code of conduct
- Recognise the different strengths, skills and experiences different people bring to a team
- Understand how to allocate roles and responsibilities within the team in relation to a given task
- Work positively as a member of a team
- Reflect on the performance of a team
Working towards GoalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify goals
- Plan how to meet their agreed goal
- Follow a plan to achieve an agreed goal
Working towards goalsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and explain their goals
- Prepare an action plan to meet their goal
- Review progress towards achieving their goal
Worldwide CitizenshipReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the role of the United Kingdom in worldwide issues
- Understand challenges facing the global community
- Take action on a specific global issue to influence others
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Entry Level credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
Where this can lead
Sustainable Procurement Analyst
This isn't just a job; it's a chance to build a meaningful career in a field that genuinely matters. We're looking for someone who's ready to roll up their sleeves, learn a lot, and contribute to making our business, and the world, a bit more sustainable. If that sounds like you, we'd love to chat.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 12 job records mapped to this qualification.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson BTEC Entry Level Award in Sustainability Skills (Entry 3)
25 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Community action
- Dealing with Problems in daily life
- Developing Personal Skills For Leadership
- Developing self
- Exploring the impact of diversity in our communities
- Healthy lifestyles
and 19 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.