Blog and updates
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26 Mar 2021
Economics Weekly Quiz - 26 March 2021
Test your knowledge of the week's economic-related stories with the new Economics Weekly Quiz!
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25 Mar 2021
Community Solar and the Drive towards Decarbonisation
A new business model is looking at how to encourage the adoption of residential solar power in low-income parts of the US.
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24 Mar 2021
Request a Bank of England Speaker for your school
After receiving lots of positive feedback from the tutor2u community, we thought we'd take a look at the Bank of England’s school visits programme that gives state schools the opportunity to invite...
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22 Mar 2021
UK 'heading towards digital skills shortage disaster'
The UK's workforce is set to fall drastically short of the demand for IT and digital skills if big changes aren't made to how young people are prepared for the world of work, according to The...
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20 Mar 2021
ScotRail to be Nationalised in 2022
After the decision of the Welsh government to renationalise railways, the Scottish government is going to follow suit in 2022.
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20 Mar 2021
Hospitals face disruption as PFI contracts end
The Private Finance Initiative was conceived as a way of funding infrastructure spending, and getting it off the government's balance sheet.
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19 Mar 2021
Economics Weekly Quiz - 19 March 2021
Test your knowledge of the week's economic-related stories with the new Economics Weekly Quiz!
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12 Mar 2021
Young Kenyan Woman Transforms Waste into Sustainable and Affordable Building Materials
The ingenuity of people is limitless. A young Kenyan entrepreneur is making affordable building materials out of recycled plastics.
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12 Mar 2021
Economics Weekly Quiz - 12 March 2021
Test your knowledge of the week's economic-related stories with the new Economics Weekly Quiz!
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11 Mar 2021
How fintech is helping small-scale farmers become profitable producers
This is a superbly relevant short video on development economics from the Financial Times as part of their series on the food revolution.
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11 Mar 2021
Biden's huge fiscal stimulus bill is approved
Joe Biden's massive fiscal stimulus programme has passed through Congress meaning that most Americans are going to receive a one-off payment of $1,400, and that unemployment benefits is going to...
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11 Mar 2021
Will Covid-19 disrupt the global vaccine market?
We are studying the economics of vaccines and it is also one of the titles for the 2021 Durham University economics essay prize - so this new film from the FT is handy to say the least!
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11 Mar 2021
Portable and digital retailing - Sweden leads the way
Although Amazon has just launched a staff-less store in London, it is Sweden that leads the way, with small grocery chain Lifvs leading the way in rural locations.
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11 Mar 2021
What Makes Blood Plasma So Expensive?
Business Insider highlights the fact that the US supplies two-thirds of the world's plasma - at a cost of $2.7 billion a year.
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11 Mar 2021
Economics of renewable - China leads world's biggest increase in wind power capacity
The scale of Chinese development in many sectors is staggering - and when they put their mind to something, they generally do it.
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11 Mar 2021
How covid-19 is boosting innovation
A year on from the WHO confirming covid-19 as a global pandemic, this excellent Economist clip considers how Covid has accelerated innovation in a number of sectors.
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9 Mar 2021
Investing in Childcare to Build Human Capital
This World Bank clip looks at the importance of Early Years education, and the absence of poor quality childcare, to development.
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8 Mar 2021
How can we make washing machines last?
A common question about the nature of consumer appliances asks to what extent are they built to last?
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5 Mar 2021
Tesla takes stake in a nickel mine
Tesla has made an interesting move to secure its nickel supplies, taking a stake in a New Caledonian nickel mine.
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5 Mar 2021
Wave Power Could Be Energy's Next Big Leap
This Bloomberg clip looks at a largely untapped renewable resource - wave power.
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