Welcome to a new school year!
Welcome back from the summer break (what summer?). The economic clouds might still be a little dark and threatening, but there has never been a better time to teach Economics with the subject booming and student numbers firmly on the rise! Our aim this year is simply to provide even more resources and support for you, your colleagues and students. So here is a new selection to get you started:
read more...»Announcing the tutor2u Economics Moodle VLE for 2009/2010
Details of our Moodle-based Economics VLE are now available. We’ve had tremendous positive feedback on the trial version of the Economics VLE which has been developed over the last 15 months with the help of colleagues in several schools and colleges. Now your students and departmental colleagues can join in the collaborative approach which has been so successful to-date.
read more...»Introducing UK Economy ExamBuster 2009
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How to keep track, and make sense of the rapid changes in the UK economy? That is the challenge facing AS & A2 economics students this summer as they prepare for the June 2009 exams.
So here is a solution from tutor2u that should help bring your students up-to-date and give them an essential advantage when taking their exams.
UK Economy ExamBuster 2009 is designed for both AS and A2 students. Exam mark schemes now frequently include the phrase “reward references to the UK economy” and one of the aims of this new resource is to highlight the key data for the UK economy and also a range of important policy decisions and external events and shocks that have shaped in recent weeks and months - and will continue to affect macroeconomic performance.
Each section of ExamBuster comprises a succinct 1or 2 page overview covering the topics below.
The Economic Cycle
Causes of the recession
Consumer spending and borrowing
Saving and Investment
Inflation
Deflation
Monetary Policy
Fiscal Policy
Unemployment
Britain’s changing labour market
Currency markets – sterling under pressure
Britain’s Balance of Payments performance
Evaluating the UK’s supply-side performance
Have living standards risen?
Housing and the economy
Manufacturing industry
UK and Euro Area economy compared
World Commodity prices and the UK Economy
De-globalisation
Update on the credit crunch
UK Economy Exambuster 2009 is published on Monday 30 March 2009 and is available as a cost-effective network licence at just £40 per institution (+VAT). The network licence allows you to duplicate or copy the ExamBuster materials to all staff and students in the subscribing institution. ExamBuster is provided in pdf format and the CD will also include a PowerPoint file containing all the data charts used - ideal for supplementing your own revision lessons.
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Jim