Business, Commerce and Management Studies - Office Administration
Core Knowledge and Skills: Provide students with a solid foundation in quantitative sciences including statistics, logistics, actuarial science, and mathematics.
Preparation for Career: Equip students for careers in quantitative areas of the private and public commercial sectors where their involvement promotes sustainable growth, development, and prosperity across all sectors of the economy and society.
Leadership Development: Develop competent leaders in quantitative commerce with applied fundamental and cross-functional knowledge to drive sustainable development, growth, and prosperity in the right direction.
Postgraduate Preparation: Offer a strong academic base for students interested in pursuing further studies at the postgraduate level.
The assessment used for this qualification ensures that the purpose of the qualification is achieved.
A range of formative and summative assessment methods such as simulations, computer assignments, workplace assessments, written and oral presentations, tests and examinations are used.
The required range of modalities is used integratively to assess whether the specified outcomes have been achieved.
The assessment used meets the standard and level of achievement for National Qualifications Framework (NQF) Levels 5 and 6. Integrated Assessment.
The nature of the quantitative sciences are such that successful study at any particular level requires the student to draw on the knowledge and expertise gathered in previous years. In this sense the assessments that are devised for the final year of study are also integrated assessments for the entire study. Assessment takes place by way of a variety of procedures, including cross-disciplinary individual and group assignments, simulations, compute assignments, workplace assessments, written and oral presentations, tests and examinations.
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