BTNC & ETNC 2012 - Join us for a Celebration of Economics and Business Education!

At the start of a new year, here are some essential details for your new diaries - the dates and the initial speaker bookings for our flagship CPD conferences in 2012 - the Economics Teacher National Conference (ETNC 2012) and the Business Teacher National Conference (BTNC 2012). Both events will be held at the British Library Conference Auditorium at St Pancras, on the following dates:

ETNC 2012 - Wednesday 27 June 2012
BTNC 2012 - Thursday 28 June 2012

These events take place on what will be a special anniversary for tutor2u.  Geoff and I set tutor2u up on 2 July 2002, so we’ll be celebrating 10 years of being part of the Economics & Business teaching community.  Our intention is to make both conferences as good as ever - we’re starting the process now of inviting a fantastic line-up of speakers and sessions which we hope will provide a wonderful end to the next academic year.

Bookings can now be placed for both conferences.  In response to requests from colleagues, we’ve tweaked the conference pricing to make it even better value for two or more colleagues to attend.  The single delegate rate is £175; the departmental deal now applies to any group of two or more colleagues, each of whom may attend of just £125.  As you may be aware, the “early-bird” rate for a competitor event is £239, so we’re delighted to once again offer a much better programme at a substantially lower price!

There is a limit of 200 places at each conference, so please make your departmental booking as early as possible (on a provisional basis) to ensure that you are able to join us.  Links to the online booking forms are below:

http://tutor2u.wufoo.com/forms/business-teacher-national-conf-2012-booking-form/

http://tutor2u.wufoo.com/forms/economics-teacher-national-conf-2012-booking-form/

A printable booking form can be downloaded from here

Economics Teacher National Conference 2012:
Wednesday 27 June 2012

The confirmed speakers so far are as follows:

Jim O’Neill

Jim is best known for his prominent economic thesis regarding the economically related nations referred to as BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China). He coined the phrase in a 2001 paper entitled “The World Needs Better Economic BRICs.”

Jim has particular interest and success in the foreign exchange market, Gavyn Davies describing O’Neill as “the top foreign-exchange economist anywhere in the world in the past decade” in 2005.

Jim has recently published a new book - The Growth Map: Economic Opportunity in the BRICs and Beyond.

Ed Conway

Ed joined Sky News in August 2011 after a year at the Kennedy School of Government Harvard University, where he was a Fulbright scholar. He was Economics Editor of The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, where he wrote a weekly op-ed column on the economy as well as covering the financial crisis. He was the first to reveal the Bank of England’s plans to create money through quantitative easing, and to warn of the funding gap in the banking system which later led to the collapse of Northern Rock, and he won a number of awards.

Ed was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford and he is the author of the popular book 50 Economics Ideas: You Really Need to Know available here on Amazon. Ed has a large and growing following on twitter - you can follow his tweets here

Business Teacher National Conference 2012
Thursday 28 June 2012

Two confirmed keynote speakers so far - and two fantastic sessions in prospect!

Jonathan Warburton is Chairman of Warburtons - now Britain’s biggest grocery brand.  A businessman with a superb reputation and a terrific speaker too.

Angus Thirwell is Co-Founder of Hotel Chocolat - one of Britain’s most innovative and successful entrepreneurs

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