Teaching Vacancy - IB Business and Management Teacher - Aiglon College (Switzerland)
A VERY interesting job opportunity here for business teachers! It is at Aiglon College, one of the pre-eminent Swiss International Schools, situated in a ski resort, with easy access to alpine pursuits and a very multinational pupil intake. Many thanks to Esmond Tweedie for letting us have the details.
read more...»Teaching Vacancy - Business Studies at Freman College
Many thanks to tutor2u’s Ian Pryer for letting us have first details of a super teaching opportunity to join the team at Freman College. Details below.
read more...»The Biz Quiz - 18 May 2012
The latest edition of The Biz Quiz is now available:
Launch The Biz Quiz - 18 May 2012
AQA AS Business (BUSS2) - Revision Quizzes
Here are the links to the collection of revision quizzes for students taking AQA AS BUSS2 (“Managing a Business”)...
read more...»A slice of the action
The Guardian on Friday featured an independent report on the sandwich market served as a “Get up and go” supplement to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the humble sandwich and the start of British Sandwich Week. It would make useful stimulus material for a low-budget research activity for a BUSS1 start-up.
read more...»Revision Quiz - Sources of Finance for a Startup
Students can test their understanding of sources of finance for a startup with this updated revision quiz. There are 30 questions on startup finance in the database and each time you take the quiz you get 10 questions selected at random. To play a new version of the quiz, simply refresh your browser.
Launch Revision Quiz - Sources of Finance for a Startup
Revision Quiz - Franchising
This updated revision quiz provides questions on franchises and franchising. Each time you take the quiz, 10 questions are drawn at random from the database of revision questions about franchising.
Launch revision quiz on franchising
Revision Quiz - Cash Flow Forecasting for a Startup
This updated revision quiz contains questions which looks at the use of cash flow forecasts by business start-ups. Each time you take the quiz, 10 questions are drawn from the quiz database on cash flow forecasting.
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The Biz Quiz - 11 May 2012
The Biz Quiz for 11 May 2012 is now live - good luck everyone!
Launch the Biz Quiz 11 May 2012
Shaa Wasmund to join us for the Business Teacher National Conference 2012
Geoff and I are absolutely delighted to announce that Shaa Wasmund has kindly agreed to join us as a speaker at the Business Teacher National Conference 2012 on Thursday 28 June 2012. Shaa is one of the UK’s most impressive entrepreneurs and is behind the Smarta website, undoutedly one of the best online resources for startups and business teachers!
Most recently, Shaa also authored what has become a best-selling book on entrepreneurship and personal effectiveness - “Stop Talking - Start Doing” which really is a superb read and comes highly recommended by us.
read more...»A cracking business lesson video on my favourite product - Jaffa Cakes!
Wow - oh wow. They’ve only gone and made a video to explain how Jaffa cakes are made. Best of all - the video is packed full with little business studies nuggetts, as well as a really useful supporting article in the Telegraph!
read more...»The Biz Quiz - 4 May 2012
The Biz Quiz for the week ending 4 May 2012 is now available for business quizzers! Good luck!
Launch the Biz Quiz - 4 May 2012
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Marketing analysis: the UK supermarket battleground
Once again the BBC have posted up a clip that clearly and concisely (in two and a half minutes) neatly sums up the marketing challenges faced by the main UK supermarket chains: store locations, types of store, products, promotions, target markets … and prices.
On that point, there’s also more detailed news published recently about Waitrose matching Tesco prices, getting marketing mileage out of the John Lewis ‘never knowingly undersold’ pledge.
read more...»GCSE Year 11 Business Studies Online Revision Clinic - 27 May 2012
We are holding an online revision clinic for students taking their final GCSE Business Studies exam (30 May). The clinic will run from 8pm at this blog address. We’ll have teacher panellists ready to answer questions for AQA (Unit 2) and Edexcel (Unit 3) as well as provide support for OCR and other GCSE boards as appropriate. Students who wish to participate in the session will need to login when the session is live using their FB, Twitter or OPEN ID details.
read more...»AS Business Studies ‘Eggheads’ Revision/AFL Task
Many thanks to Gareth Allum and his students at The Cooper School, Bicester for letting us know about an innovative revision activity that has provided both enjoyable and effective. Gareth has kindly provided some supporting notes and downloads that explain and illustrate the “eggheads”-style revision approach.
read more...»Making Finance Fun 2012 - CPD Course (London and Manchester)
This new CPD course from the tutor2u team looks at how we can make the teaching and learning of finance fun!, We’re running the course for the first time on 20 June 2012 in central London and the following day in Manchester…
read more...»Evaluation - Making a ‘judge’ment
Here is a little exercise I have done with my AS Business groups this week. When trying to help with the longer essay questions, split the class into groups and and have them practice how to make a judgement for each essay question. I am using this for the OCR F292 Case Study of TSL. You can have one person in each group as the prosecution stating why they have made one certain judgement and then have another person acting as the defence stating why they think it should be a different outcome. The teacher can role play as ‘The Judge’ for the first exercise show the class what is expected.
read more...»The Biz Quiz - 30 April 2012
Another busy week of business news is covered with this latest edition of The Biz Quiz.
Launch the Biz Quiz - 30 April 2012
AQA AS Business BUSS2 Online Revision Clinic - Wednesday May 16 2012
Students sitting AQA AS Business Studies unit BUSS2 may find this helpful. We’re running an online revision clinic for an hour on Wednesday 16 May from 9.00 p.m for an hour. Michelle Stephenson, Graham Prior and I will be there, together with some other members of the tutor2u BUSS2 team to provide some personalised support for students as they prepare for the BUSS2 exam on 21 May.
The online revision clinic is free and will appear here - on this blog entry. You will need to login using your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account in order to participate (e.g. ask questions and/or comment)
read more...»A detailed look inside Apple’s Foxconn factory
A fascinating and detailed look here at working conditions at Apple’s main supplier in China. This 15 minute video raises a lot of issues which students can develop; particularly useful for any discussion around CSR, but also excellent for operations and HRM. In the video, ABC News Nightline goes behind the scenes of the FoxConn factory - the operation which makes iPads and iPhones.
read more...»BUSS4: The Seven Point Scale for Perfect Paragraphs
This is an idea I’ve developed following the recent tutor2u BUSS4 revision workshops for marking and feeding back to students when building essay skills. Like many of my A2 Business-teaching counterparts, I spent a large proportion of the Easter break marking BUSS4 mock essays. In a bid to help my students develop their paragraph writing skills, I made a note of the common areas for improvement and summarised them into seven key points for writing the ‘perfect’ paragraph:
read more...»Developing Exam Skills: Analysis: The Snoozatron
This is a ‘cracking’ little video that I used with my students to talk about analysis.
read more...»Developing Exam Skills: It depends on how you use “it depends”
“It depends on”. Three little words that allow students to reach higher levels of evaluation. However, the extent to which the use of these 3 words allows a student to achieve higher levels of evaluation really depends on how they use it.
read more...»Developing Exam Skills: Answer what you are asked!
I’ve blogged about this before but it is worth mentioning again as we approach what I like to call, the ‘business end’ of the academic year - exam season.
read more...»Brand Logos (there’s an app for that)
At the time of writing, the best selling free app in the app store is ‘Logos Quiz Game’. A must have for all Business students to download onto their smart phones! This could be used in a variety of ways both in and out of the classroom; pupils might need a break from revision or teachers might use to introduce branding (perhaps in conjunction with brand logo bingo) or in those all important end of term quizzes!
Teaching Vacancy - Business Studies at Xaverian College
The Business Studies team at Xaverian are good friends of tutor2u and they’ve just alerted us to an attractive opportunity for someone to join the department. Details below
read more...»The Biz Quiz - 20 April 2012
The latest edition of The Biz Quiz is here for you to try:
Launch The Biz Quiz - 20 April 2012
The Chief Operating Officer of Asda to Speak at the Business Teacher National Conference 2012
We’ve just had some fantastic news. Judith McKenna, the Chief Operating Officer of Asda, has kindly agreed to join us for a morning session at the Business Teacher National Conference 2012 on Thursday 28 June 2012. Judith is one of the UK’s most inspiring business leaders and is now in charge of the UK’s second-largest supermarket chain (behind Tesco).
As COO, Judith heads all Asda’s retail operations, including its stores and online, its distribution network and IT systems. Judith also had responsibility for the £778m Netto takeover in 2010 and the subsequent conversion of its stores. There is a superb interview here with Judith in Management Today which will give colleagues a real sense of the opportunity the conference provides them.
read more...»Britain’s Biggest Baker Joins Us for the Business Teacher National Conference 2012
We’re delighted to announce that Jonathan Warburton, the Chairman of Warburtons, has kindly agreed to join us for the afternoon session pf the Business Teacher National Conference 2012 on Thursday 28 June 2012. That will be a terrific way to end what is shaping up to be yet another must-attend CPD enrichment conference for business and enterprise teachers everywhere!
read more...»When we went on Tour: Developing Exam Skills: Analysis
I love using analogies to explain business concepts to students and one which I used on the recent tutor2u revision conferences was comparing good analysis to a necklace.
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