BTEC Advanced Professional Qualifications are designed to provide focused and specialist vocational short courses, linked to professional body requirements and National Occupational Standards where appropriate, with a clear work-related emphasis. The qualifications provide short vocational programmes of study that meet the individual needs of learners. There is a strong emphasis on practical skills development alongside the development of requisite knowledge and understanding in the sector.
BTEC Advanced Professional Qualifications are particularly suitable for more mature learners who wish to follow a short programme of study that is directly related to their work experience or to an aspect of employment that they wish to move into in due course. On successful completion of these qualifications, national recognition by employers enables learners to progress into or within employment and/or continue their study in the vocational area.

BTEC Advanced Professional Diploma in Strategic Hospitality Management provide an advanced level of specialist work-related programmes of study that cover the key knowledge, understanding and practical skills required for strategic management or ownership in the hospitality sector.

BTEC Advanced Professional Qualifications are designed to meet a range of different needs.

The range of qualifications offers:

• maximum flexibility with shorter programmes available across Levels 7 and 8 of the NQF
• the opportunity to certificate smaller blocks of learning, which are designed to motivate learners and encourage widening participation in education and training
• courses that relate to the particular training and employment patterns in a sector
• courses that may offer preparation for specific jobs when in employment
• the opportunity to use a range of delivery methods
• opportunities for learners to develop skills that support career and professional development
• underpinning knowledge, skills and understanding linked, where appropriate, to named NVQs
• programmes that can enable progression either to higher levels of study or to other courses at the same level of study.