Economics Teacher National Conference - 17th June

There are just under couple of weeks until the Economics Teacher National Conference at the British Library, St Pancras.  We meet on Thursday 17 June 2010 for a terrific CPD day for all economics teachers - a great way to celebrate the end of another long school year!

Our programme is as follows

10.20am - Geoff Riley (Eton College) - welcome, opening remarks
10.30am - Professor Paul Collier (Oxford University) - The Plundered Planet
11.20am - Dr Linda Yueh - (Oxford University) The Economy of China
12.15pm - Morning refreshments
12.35pm - Stephen King - (Chief Global Economist of HSBC) - Losing Control
13.20pm - Lunch
14.10pm - Hamish McRae (The Independent) - What Works?
15.10pm - Closing remarks
15.15pm - Drinks Reception

Places at the conference on 17 June 2010 are available from just £100 for colleagues participating as part of the tutor2u departmental deal (three or more places over the three days for Politics, Economics & Business from 16-18 June 2010).

The booking form can be downloaded from this link:

Alternatively, just email Chrissie in the office (chrissie@tutor2u.net) or call her on 0844 800 0085 to request places for you and your colleagues.

The whole day should be a wonderful way to celebrate the end of another school year for economics teachers - and a great way to be inspired for the new year ahead! We are arranging book signings for all four of our authors and there will be many teaching resources on the delegate CD! Over 100 colleagues are already booked into the conference - please do join us.

The Twitter hashtag for this conference is ETNC10 - tweet through your questions for the speakers and send real time comments during the day!

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Unit 2 Macro: Migration and the UK Economy [20 May 2012]
Revision notes on unemployment [20 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision Presentation on Government Intervention [16 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision Presentation on the Price Mechanism [16 May 2012]
Improving Evaluation Skills in Economics Exams [16 May 2012]
Final Speaker Line Up for the Economics Teacher Conference 2012 [15 May 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: African Human Development Report 2012 [15 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision Blogs on Markets and Intervention [10 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: 10 Key Revision Topics for EdExcel [7 May 2012]
Exam Technique for Economics - Weesteps to Evaluation [5 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Using the Cost-Benefit Principle [30 Apr 2012]
Macro Revision: Putting Things in Context [29 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Key Diagrams for Business Economics [17 Apr 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Managing the Global Commons - Limits to GDP [15 Apr 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Mini Documentary on Financial Instability [15 Apr 2012]
Ukraine Hotel ‘Bandits’? [12 Apr 2012]
Government Intervention in the Energy Market [11 Apr 2012]
Football Clubs to Pay for Negative Externalities [11 Apr 2012]
2012 Economics Revision: Ways to Improve your Paper [9 Apr 2012]
Twitter - Help with Economics Revision [8 Apr 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Inflation and the Business Environment [6 Apr 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: How the Economic Cycle affects Businesses [6 Apr 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Evaluating 3 Years of Quantitative Easing [27 Mar 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Highest and Lowest Paid Jobs in the UK [26 Feb 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: King on the UK Economy [15 Feb 2012]
Competitiveness [8 Feb 2012]
Teaching vacancy - Economics & Business Studies, Reed’s School - Cobham, Surrey [19 Jan 2012]
AS and A2 Economics Revision Workshops in Spring 2012 (update) [16 Jan 2012]
Revision Presentation: Economics Evaluation Skills [10 Jan 2012]
Exam Advice: 10 Ideas for a Better Economics Paper [10 Jan 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Factors Driving Business Investment [10 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Natural Disasters and their Economic Impact [7 Jan 2012]
AS and A2 Economics - 10 Ways to Improve Evaluation [4 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Prezi on the Economics of Negative Externalities [2 Jan 2012]
Resources on Keynes and Hayek [27 Dec 2011]
Introduction to Neuroeconomics - Fusing Psychology with Economics [16 Dec 2011]
Rory Sutherland at Zeitgeist [1 Dec 2011]
Behavioural Economics: Herd Behaviour [28 Nov 2011]
Stephen King - Great Article on Macroeconomics [22 Nov 2011]
Beyond the Bike - The Value of Money [19 Nov 2011]
LSE Lecture: Daniel Kahneman - Thinking Fast and Slow [15 Nov 2011]
LSE lecture: Darwin economy [13 Nov 2011]
Economics Resources - Week Ended 6 November 2011 [6 Nov 2011]
Is happiness the right measure of social progress? [20 Oct 2011]
Why Is Macroeconomics Such A Mess? [11 Oct 2011]
Fat tax: Denmark [5 Oct 2011]
UK Macro: Risks of a Double Dip Recession [12 Sep 2011]
Starter Video: The Slums of Manilla [11 Sep 2011]
50% tax rates - Chuck it George [7 Sep 2011]
NHS spending good, private provision bad? [5 Sep 2011]
Mixing with the Nobel Economists [4 Sep 2011]
Toilet rolls, soap and climate change [1 Sep 2011]
John Kay on the future of Economics [26 Aug 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: GDP per person since the credit crunch [19 Aug 2011]
Beyond the Bike - Video of the First Two Weeks [8 Aug 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: The Price of Football [2 Aug 2011]
Economics 1 Manchester United 0 [20 Jul 2011]
Tech & Pop Culture in Teaching Economics [17 Jul 2011]
Beyond the Bike - Stuart’s Epic Economic Cycle [17 Jul 2011]
7 Reasons why Teachers should Blog [7 Jul 2011]
tutor2u June 2011 Economics Teacher Conference [18 Jun 2011]
Connecting to Digital Natives (and some great ads!) [17 Jun 2011]
RES Essay Competition 2011 - Shortlisted Essays [13 Jun 2011]
Shaping the Future - Blanchflower on the UK Economy [7 Jun 2011]
Economics Teachers on Twitter [6 Jun 2011]
Poor Economics - Esther Duflo at the LSE [3 Jun 2011]
AS Macro: Preparing for Unit 2 (May 2011) [25 May 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Supply-Side Policies [25 May 2011]
AQA A2 Economics - European Context [23 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Competition and Efficiency [19 May 2011]
A2 Micro: Innovation and Economic Policies [18 May 2011]
UK Economy Update: What Mervyn Said [11 May 2011]
Review of “Adapt” by Tim Harford [9 May 2011]
Economics Resources & CPD - Your Suggestions Welcome [9 May 2011]
Dominos Pizza turns to Behavioural Economics [5 May 2011]
AS Micro: Rising Global Food Prices [2 May 2011]
Video Clips on the Chinese Economy [1 May 2011]
EU Enlargement - Evaluating the Impact [30 Apr 2011]
AS and A2 Macro Revision: Keynesian Economics [28 Apr 2011]
A2 Micro: EU Aviation - State Aid and State Ownership [28 Apr 2011]
Economics Recommended Reading - Summer 2011 [26 Apr 2011]
AS and A2 Macro Revision: The China Effect [26 Apr 2011]
Royal Economic Society Essay Competition [23 Apr 2011]
A2 Macro: Twin Deficits [22 Apr 2011]
AS Micro Revision: Public and Private Goods [21 Apr 2011]
Fantastic short piece on nudges and shoves! [19 Apr 2011]
UK Economy at a Glance April 2011 [17 Apr 2011]
Key AS Micro Terms: Economic Efficiency [16 Apr 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: Information Failure [15 Apr 2011]
Online Economics Revision Help [13 Apr 2011]
Tracking the effects of the recession on GDP [5 Apr 2011]
Tutor2u Visits Madrid! [4 Apr 2011]
AS Macro Revision - Key Term Revision Bank [1 Apr 2011]
AS Micro Revision - Key Term Revision Bank [1 Apr 2011]
Progress towards low carbon economic growth [18 Mar 2011]
Resources from the Business/Economics ICT event [5 Mar 2011]
Google Docs - Macroeconomic Performance [1 Mar 2011]
Using Google Docs for Student Collaboration [28 Feb 2011]
Intense focus on cutting emissions is dumb argues Lomborg [16 Feb 2011]

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