Ascentis · RQF Level 2
Ascentis Level 2 Certificate in Skills for Further Study in Business, Administration and Law
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits25
- Guided learning152 hours
- Units in this qualification40
Awarded by Ascentis · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Ascentis 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.
Action Planning for Own DevelopmentReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise own skills, knowledge and ability.
- Match own skills, knowledge, ability and personal requirements with possible career paths.
- Know routes available for own learning and development, in relation to possible career paths.
- Plan own development.
- Action own development.
Business SkillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand methods of collecting information for business purposes.
- Interpret and draw conclusions from business data and information.
- Create a business report.
- Understand the use of oral presentations in business.
- Interpret and use business terminology.
Business StudiesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature and purpose(s) of business.
- Understand different types of business.
- Formulate objectives for different types of business organisations.
- Understand the organisational structure of different types of businesses.
- Understand the importance of communication that can be used in business.
CalculationsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers of any size, and numbers with up to three decimal places.
- Use fractions.
- Use percentages.
- Convert between fractions, decimals and percentages.
- Calculate ratio and direct proportion.
- Evaluate expressions and make whole number substitutions in given formulae to produce results.
- Use a calculator to calculate with fractions, decimals and percentages.
- Use strategies to check calculations.
Communicate in a Business EnvironmentReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a communication.
- Communicate in writing.
- Communicate verbally.
- Identify and agree ways of developing communication skills.
Consumer LawReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand consumer protection legislation
- Understand the function of regulatory bodies
Family LawReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the requirements for a valid marriage and civil partnership
- Understand the procedure for the dissolution of a marriage or civil partnership
- Understand the provisions relating to children following the breakdown of a relationship
Financial ManagementReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to read a balance sheet.
- Understand a basic end of year profit and loss statement.
- Control cash in business.
- Understand the basic measures of performance.
Handle MailReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand security procedures when handling mail or packages.
- Know the range of available internal and external mail services.
- Receive, distribute and collect internal mail or packages.
- Follow procedures for despatching mail or packages.
- Resolve, report or refer problems that may occur in handling mail or packages.
How to Run Effective MeetingsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key features of effective meetings.
- Organise a meeting.
Information LiteracyReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know about information sources.
- Prepare for gathering information for a specific purpose.
- Gather required information.
- Communicate information according to purpose and audience.
International Aspects of BusinessReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand factors affecting business at an international level.
- Understand the importance of exporting and importing.
- Understand international marketing.
- Understand the nature and role of the multinational company.
- Understand the importance of European economic and political integration on business.
- Understand the nature of distribution on an international scale.
- Understand trends in international business.
Introduction to BusinessReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know the principles of business.
- Understand how business is organised.
- Understand how business may impact on the environment.
- Know how business operates.
- Understand how law and ethics relate to business.
- Understand the roles played by people in business.
- Know how computers are used in business.
Introduction to Business AdministrationReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the Business and Administration sector.
- Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in the Business and Administration sector.
- Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in the Business and Administration sector.
Introduction to Computer StudiesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the capability of a range of computer applications.
- Solve problems using computing tools and techniques.
- Know about the place of computing in society.
- Integrate use of computers into own studies and interests.
- Know about careers available in computer studies.
Introduction to the Law of TortReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to establish negligence
- Understand the two forms of nuisance
Law in Action: Criminal LawReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know about concepts in criminal law.
- Know about fatal offences.
- Know about non-fatal offences.
- Know about property offences.
- Know about general defences.
Law in the workplaceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the differences between a self employed person and an employed person
- Understand the importance of a contract of employment
- Understand how contracts of employment can be terminated
- Understand the requirements of an effective working environment
ManagementReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand management at different levels of a business.
- Understand different styles of management.
- Understand the management of change.
- Understand the importance of information in decision making.
MarketingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core principles of marketing and its importance to business success.
- Understand the process of product development and the crucial role of market research in informing this process.
- Understand the role and components of the marketing mix (Product, Price, Place, Promotion) and how they interact.
- Effectively manage and implement marketing strategies to achieve specific business objectives.
Measures and ShapeReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Calculate, measure and record time.
- Measure and compare temperature, including reading scales and conversion tables.
- Estimate, measure and calculate with length, distance, weight and capacity.
- Use scale and find dimensions from scale drawings.
- Use compound measures and rate of exchange.
- Recognise and use common 2D representations of 3D objects.
- Find the perimetres of regular and composite 2D shapes, using a given formula.
- Find areas of regular and composite shapes, using given formulae.
Meet and Welcome VisitorsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to meet and welcome visitors.
- Meet and welcome visitors.
Minute TakingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know how different types of meeting are recorded.
- Understand the importance of preparation and planning in order to help prepare good minutes.
- Understand different techniques for note-taking, paraphrasing and summarising information during a meeting.
- Summarise the content of a meeting.
- Understand the characteristics of good minutes in terms of content, style and recording the content of a meeting accurately.
- Prepare minutes.
Oral Communication SkillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Speak to an audience.
- Respond to questions.
- Engage in discussion.
- Understand information presented orally.
- Communicate orally in different contexts.
PlagiarismReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand definitions of plagiarism.
- Understand how plagiarism may be used in different contexts.
- Understand what constitutes plagiarism.
- Understand terms used in relation to plagiarism and its avoidance.
- Know how plagiarism can be avoided in own work.
- Avoid plagiarism in own work.
Portfolio BuildingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what a portfolio is.
- Know what a portfolio can be used for.
- Build a portfolio suitable for own requirements and context.
- Build a portfolio suitable for own needs and context.
Reading and UnderstandingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret source material.
- Extract information from source material for specific purposes.
Research ProjectReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the objectives of a research project.
- Identify and use secondary data for research.
- Identify and use primary data for research.
- Generate primary data.
- Produce a research report.
- Present research.
- Review own research process.
Risk ManagementReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key characteristics of risk assessment and risk reduction for an organisation.
- Understand risk assessment and risk mitigation in own organisation.
SpellingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know own spelling strengths and weaknesses.
- Locate spellings.
- Use spelling rules.
- Use strategies to spell accurately.
Study ManagementReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature and importance of study management.
- Establish a study environment.
- Manage own study.
- Review own study management.
Understanding Disability, Society and the LawReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal framework for the protection of disabled people and its place in anti-discrimination legislation in the UK.
- Support people with disabilities so they are cognisant of and able to exercise their rights under the law.
- Understand the current philosophies towards people who have support needs.
- Understand the historical and present day attitudes in society towards people with disabilities.
Understanding Retail Consumer LawReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how consumer legislation protects the rights of customers.
- Know the main provisions for the protection of consumers from unfair trading practices.
- Know the main provisions of consumer credit legislation in relation to retail.
- Know the main provisions of data protection legislation in relation to retail.
- Know the main provisions of the law relating to the sale of licenced and age-restricted products.
- Understand the consequences for businesses and employees of contravening retail law.
Understanding Young People, Law And OrderReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why young people might become involved in crime.
- Understand the consequences of crime on different people.
- Know the Criminal/Youth Justice System.
- Understand custodial and alternative forms of sentences.
- Know the roles of local agencies.
Understanding the Law for Public Services WorkersReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know how criminal law has evolved.
- Know about police powers as set out in legislation.
- Know about rights of suspects as set out in legislation.
- Know how the police and Crown Prosecution Service establish that an offence has been committed and build a case for prosecution.
- Understand the role of key people and main processes in a trial.
Use Office EquipmentReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Know about different types of office equipment and its uses.
- Understand the purpose of following instructions and health and safety procedures.
- Understand how to use equipment in a way that minimises waste.
- Know about the different types of problems that may occur when using equipment and how to deal with them.
- Understand the purpose of meeting work standards and deadlines.
- Understand the purpose of leaving equipment and the work area ready for the next user.
- Use office equipment.
Using EmailReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Use e-mail software tools and techniques to compose and send messages.
- Manage incoming e-mail effectively.
Using the InternetReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Connect to the Internet.
- Use browser software to navigate webpages effectively.
- Use browser tools to search for information from the Internet.
- Use browser software to communicate information online.
- Understand the need for safety and security practices when working online.
Work in a Business EnvironmentReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Work in ways which respect other people in the workplace.
- Maintain security and confidentiality at work and deal with concerns.
- Support sustainability and minimise waste in an organisation.
Working in a GroupReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand characteristics of groups.
- Plan work with a group.
- Work in a group.
- Review own group working experience.
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
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
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
International Business Coordinator
Your journey starts here, learning the fundamentals. Where you go next is up to you, but we'll give you the tools and opportunities to build a truly international career.
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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 Ascentis Level 2 Certificate in Skills for Further Study in Business, Administration and Law
40 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Ascentis.
- Action Planning for Own Development
- Business Skills
- Business Studies
- Calculations
- Communicate in a Business Environment
- Consumer Law
and 34 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.