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Ideas for a short essay competition

Geoff Riley

7th December 2009

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I want to give my students a chance to write a short essay over the next month or so - especially year 12 as a way of spreading their wings. Can anyone suggest additions to or amendments to this draft list of questions? There would be a 1,000 word limit to encourage crisp and fluent answers that don’t waffle!

What have we learned from the financial crisis?

Does British manufacturing have a future?

Can economics explain why one in five young drivers in the UK are uninsured ?

Does the size of the national debt matter?

Many economists have returned to Keynes for answers to the economic crisis. Are they right to do so?

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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