Our Business, Leadership and Enterprise Sector cuts across all other sectors.   We recognise that in all sectors, training gap analyses reveal a substantial need for higher level skills in leadership and enterprise to keep London competitive in increasingly global markets.

Our work in this area has focused on three areas in particular: generic business and management programmes, financial services and tourism. The financial services industry is concentrated in the south east, and in London in particular. Degree-level qualifications are increasingly an entry route into employment in financial services. As a major international destination, London has a very large travel and tourism industry. The Olympics in 2012 and the heritage sites within the capital will lead to labour shortages if the demand for an appropriately qualified workforce is not met.

Our work in progressing learners in generic business and management programmes, as well as our specific focus on the needs of the financial and tourism industries, will contribute to resolving these issues.

Sue Short is based at the University of Greenwich and is the lead for the Business, Leadership and Enterprise Sector. Sue has been in post since May 2008. Sue organises the SELLLN Business, Leadership and Enterprise Sector Working Group. This group sets the overall strategy for SELLLN’s engagement with the sector.

As well as membership drawn from our partner colleges and universities, the group’s membership includes representatives from the Financial Service Skills Council, People First, the Chartered Insurance Institute, the South East London Chamber of Commerce, Southwark Chamber of Commerce, Greenwich Local Labour and Business and City Growth, South London Business.

SELLLN is already funding several initiatives in the Business, Leadership and Enterprise Sector. These include the ‘Entrepreneur in Action – Building Skills for Business’ project, which provided programmes for budding entrepreneurs at Greenwich Community College, Southwark College and Lewisham College, and a flexible business summer school.  

Several progression agreements are in development in the business, management and tourism fields of study.

Resources

Download Financial Services Skills Council student case studies

SELLLN have funded and produced a vodcast for the King's College London BSc Business Management degree, featuring admissions staff at King's offering advice to learners on completing their UCAS personal statements. Watch the vodcast here.

Visit the Directions website to download SELLLN funded job profiles.

Download details of business progression agreement pathways:

 Business, Leadership and Enterprise progression agreements (576.25 kB)

Business, Leadership and Enterprise progression agreements
University	Pathway	For students on	Eligible colleges	Leaflet
University of Greenwich	65 programmes at the University of Greenwich Business School  (see leaflet)	Access to HE Diplomas; BTEC National Certificates and Diplomas in Business; the Diploma in Business, Administration and Finance (BAF); and Travel and Tourism qualifications	Bexley Greenwich Community Lambeth Lewisham South Thames Southwark	ACCESS: Business @ Greenwich (5.64 MB)  BAF: Business @ Greenwich (5.78 MB)  BTEC: Business @ Greenwich (5.22 MB)  TRAVEL & TOURISM: Business @ Greenwich (5.23 MB)
University of Greenwich	BA Accounting and Financial Information Systems, BA Accounting and Finance,    BA Accounting, Audit and Assurance	AAT Levels 3 and 4	Bexley Greenwich Community Lambeth South Thames Southwark	AAT: Business @ Greenwich (6.99 MB)
University of Greenwich	BA Business Studies	Professional qualifications in Management	Bexley Lewisham Southwark	MANAGEMENT: Business @ Greenwich (7.02 MB)
King's College London	BSc Business Management	Access to HE Diplomas; BTEC National Diplomas	Bexley  Greenwich Community  Lambeth Lewisham South Thames Southwark	ACCESS: Business Management @ King's (7.99 MB)  BTEC: Business Management @ King's (7.82 MB)
London South Bank University	54 programmes at the LSBU Faculty of Business (see leaflet)	Access to HE Diplomas; BTEC National Certificates and Diplomas in Business; the Diploma in Business, Administration and Finance (BAF)	Bexley  Greenwich Community  Lambeth Lewisham South Thames Southwark	ACCESS: Business @ LSBU (6.06 MB)  BTEC: Business @ LSBU (5.52 MB)  BAF: Business @ LSBU (4.63 MB)
London South Bank University	34 programmes at the LSBU Faculty of Business (see leaflet)	Travel and Tourism qualifications	Greenwich Community Southwark	TRAVEL & TOURISM: Business @ LSBU (5.94 MB)
London South Bank University	BA Accounting and Finance; Professional Accountancy Course; BA Professional Accounting; Business Administration; BA Business Studies; FdA Accounting	AAT levels 3 and 4	Bexley Greenwich Community Lambeth South Thames Southwark	AAT: Business @ LSBU (6.31 MB)
London South Bank University	BA Business Studies; FdA Enterprise and Small Business Development	Professional qualifications in Management	Bexley Lewisham Southwark	MANAGEMENT: Business @ LSBU (6.73 MB)