Program Overview

Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship

About this course

This work-based programme is designed to provide the essential knowledge, understanding and skills required to operate effectively and successfully in a business environment in the private and public sectors. Core areas of the programme focus on contemporary business concepts, management and leadership functions, managing people, project and risk management, operations and external context, including legal and ethical issues.

Key details

• Start date(s): September 2025, January 2026
• Study Mode: Part-time (3 years)
• Location: Leeds City Campus
• School: Business

Course modules

Year 1

• Introduction to your Professional Degree Apprenticeship - Core This module equips apprentices with essential study skills for navigating higher education and fosters reflective practice by introducing key models and theories. Learners will engage with academic conventions such as writing, note-taking, literature searching, presentation skills, and referencing.
• Negotiated Learning: Organisations in Context - Core Apprentices will explore management theories, such as Taylorism and Fordism, as groundwork for future studies. Challenges of organisational behaviour are covered through class-based exercises on topics such as leadership, group formation, change and behaviour.
• Tools and Techniques of Project Management - Core This module explores tools, techniques and methodologies required for professional planning and implementing projects, evaluating costs, and managing risk.
• Negotiated Learning: Projects in the Workplace - Core Sharpen your awareness of small-scale work-based project stages and processes in this module.

Year 2

• Apprenticeship Portfolio Review - Core This module supports apprentices in reflecting on their professional experiences, identifying valuable insights from both formal education and workplace learning.
• Negotiated Learning: Sales and Marketing - Core In this module, apprentices will uncover the core principles of marketing, including market research, segmentation, and the marketing mix.
• Negotiated Learning: Managing People and Self - Core This module delves into the essential aspects of theoretical people management and its practical applications in the workplace.
• Negotiated Learning: Digital Technology and Innovation - Core This module investigates the transformative role of digital technologies in business operations.
• Level 5 Work-based Project This module enables apprentices to choose the most appropriate assessment method for their project, with guidance from the module tutor.

Year 3

• Advancing Your Portfolio Towards End Point Assessment - Core This module guides apprentices in consolidating learning and workplace experiences, introducing them to Gateway and End Point Assessment requirements.
• Negotiated Learning: Business Finance - Core Focusing on corporate governance and financial oversight, this module equips apprentices with the skills to analyse financial performance and ensure compliance with governance standards.
• Negotiated Learning: Strategy, Leadership and Change - Core This module aims to equip apprentices with strategic thinking and change management capabilities essential for navigating dynamic business environments.
• Gateway Preparation Module This module is designed to guide apprentices through the final stages of their apprenticeship, preparing them for the End-Point Assessment (EPA).
• Work-based Learning Project for Apprentices Work-based projects include rationale, aims and objectives are drawn up by student apprentice as part of the ‘Learning Agreement’.

Learning and teaching

Assessment methods

• reports
• presentations
• professional discussions
• assignments
• work-based projects

Programme delivery

Your time on campus, learning through in-person teaching, is at the heart of your academic experience and the way we deliver our programmes. This is supported and further enhanced by additional engagement activities and opportunities provided online and through digital teaching materials.

Learning and teaching

At Leeds Trinity we aim to provide an excellent student experience and provide you with the tools and support to help you achieve your academic, personal and professional potential.

Entry requirements

• Must hold a level 2 qualification in English Language and Maths Grade 4/C or above
• Provide evidence of the highest achieved qualifications
• Be employed for a minimum of 30 hours per week in a relevant role and have the support of their employer
• Live and have the right to work in England (ID will be requested)

Fees and finance

• The cost of this apprenticeship programme is £22,000.
• Apprenticeships are fully funded by your employer if their wage bill is over £3 million each year.
• The government will fund up to 95% of the apprenticeship’s course fees, up to the relevant funding band, if the organisation has spent all its levy or has an annual wage bill below £3 million each year.