Higher National Certificate qualification in Sustainable Business (HTQ)

By the end of level 4, you will know the basics of sustainable business management. You will develop skills in sustainability business management. This includes both general and specific areas. After the one-year HNC course, you can progress to a level 5 HND in Sustainable Business. It will give you more advanced knowledge and employability skills.
Completion of the Level 4 and Level 5 units gives students the opportunity to gain knowledge, skills and behaviours aligned to the occupational standard (OS) for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Practitioner Level 4. The units will prepare students to enter employment with the qualities and abilities necessary for roles that require a practitioner with a social conscience to to drive social and environmental change, for example:
● corporate social responsibility officer
● environmental social governance officer
● responsible business officer.
The units also prepare students to progress to Level 6 higher education study, including higher apprenticeships and professional body qualifications. Students will be able to develop and apply their own ideas to their studies, deal with uncertainty and complexity, explore solutions, demonstrate critical evaluation and use both theory and practice in a wide range of sustainable business management situations.
By the end of Level 5, students will have a sound understanding of the principles of sustainable business management and will know how to apply those principles more widely in the business world.