Skills and Education Group Awards · RQF Level 2
SEG Awards Level 2 Diploma In Fashion Retail
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits58
- Guided learning435 hours
- Units in this qualification13
Awarded by Skills and Education Group Awards · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Skills and Education Group Awards 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.
Fashion design and the communication processReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of the fashion retail design department
- Understand the fashion design development process
- Understand how contemporary designers impact on the high street
- Recognise how to communicate fashion design ideas
Fashion history, culture and trendsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key developments in fashion of the 20th and early 21st centuries
- Understand current trends in fashion
Graphic Design Ideas and ConceptsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- LO1 Be able to research from primary and secondary sources
- LO2 Be able to experiment with ideas generation techniques
- LO3 Be able to develop and present creative ideas in response to a brief
- LO4 Be able to review the development of ideas and concepts
Introduction to buying and merchandising in fashion retailReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of buying and merchandising teams
- Understanding the buying and merchandising cycle
- Range plan
Personal shopping and styling for fashion retailReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise the role of personal shopping within fashion retail
- Understand how clothing and accessories are chosen to suit different body shapes
- Understanding styling principles used to style customers according to their needs and preferences
- Utilise current fashion trends in the styling of customers
Preparing for personal progression in the fashion retail sectorReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise own aptitudes, abilities and ambitions
- Recognise own progression opportunities in fashion retail
- Present self for progression in the fashion retail sector
Preparing to work in a fashion retail store-based environmentReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how the roles and responsibilities of teams in fashion retail relate to the structure and function of organisations
- Know the daily activities of a fashion retail shop floor environment
- Recognise safe working practices in a fashion retail environment
- Recognise the characteristics of effective team work and communication in a fashion retail shop floor environment
Promotional activities in fashion retailReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise key marketing concepts
- Recognise the impact of new and emerging technologies on marketing strategy
- Recognise consumer behaviour
- Understand promotional planning in relation to the fashion retail calendar
- Promote a fashion retail campaign/event
The evolution of the fashion retail marketplaceReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the development of fashion retailing
- Recognise the different store formats offered by fashion retailers
- Recognise how current factors affect fashion retailers
- Understand multi-channel retailing
Understanding fashion trends and forecastingReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know the ways in which fashion trends are analysed, predicted and developed
- Understand contemporary influences on fashion trends
- Present a forecast in fashion trends
Understanding the control, receipt and storage of stock in a retail businessReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of having the right stock levels
- Understand how goods are received on the premises of a retail business
- Understand how stock should be stored to prevent damage or loss
Understanding the fashion retail businessReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of business organisation in the fashion retail sector
- Understand the impact of external and internal influences upon a fashion retail business
- Understand how businesses measure their performance in the fashion retail sector
Visual merchandising for fashion retailReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise the importance that displays have in translating the retailer’s identity to the customer
- Recognise how events and props are used to promote merchandise in a retail environment
- Prepare and install window and in-store displays
- Recognise how floor layouts and product adjacencies maximise sales
- Understand the importance of product preparation and handling in visual merchandising
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.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 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
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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
Visual Merchandising Specialist
Your career path here isn't a rigid ladder; it's more like a climbing wall with many different routes to the top. We're here to help you find the path that best suits your strengths and ambitions, whether that's becoming a leader of people or a deep technical expert.
See the whole journey →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 SEG Awards Level 2 Diploma In Fashion Retail
13 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Skills and Education Group Awards.
- Fashion design and the communication process
- Fashion history, culture and trends
- Graphic Design Ideas and Concepts
- Introduction to buying and merchandising in fashion retail
- Personal shopping and styling for fashion retail
- Preparing for personal progression in the fashion retail sector
and 7 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.
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