Blog and updates
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15 Apr 2020
Exploring Wage Differentials and Remuneration for Key Workers [Year 13 Enrichment Task]
In this task students consider the low wages paid to many of those who have been defined as key workers in the current crisis, and asks whether their roles should be recognised with higher pay,...
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15 Apr 2020
What is the economic impact of the shutdown of the English football season? [Year 12 Enrichment Task]
In the second of a series of weekly Enrichment tasks for economics students, here is a task which considers the wider economic impacts of the shutdown of the English football season - look out for...
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15 Apr 2020
GSK and Sanofi join forces to research a vaccine
The coronavirus has prompted collaboration in the pharmaceutical sector, with GSK joining forces with Sanofi to develop a series of coronavirus vaccines, and AstraZeneca to increase the UK's...
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14 Apr 2020
Amsterdam embraces the doughnut economic model
There has been much interest in a decision of the city authorities in Amsterdam to embrace Kate Raworth's doughnut model of sustainable growth.
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14 Apr 2020
Pandenomics: How Covid-19 could change the world
For today's article of choice, I point you to a commentary from Mark Cliffe, Chief Economist at ING in which he considers how the economic and political landscape might change as and when we emerge...
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14 Apr 2020
How coronavirus almost brought down the global financial system
Here is an excellent, detailed and rather worrying Guardian long read about the impact of coronavirus on the global financial system.
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9 Apr 2020
Ofqual Guidance for Teachers and Students on Exam Grading in Summer 2020
Here are the two videos that have just been published by Ofqual explaining the exams grading process for summer 2020.
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9 Apr 2020
The unequal impact of coronavirus
Eight or so years ago, the newly-elected Conservative government trumpeted the fact that, in the aftermath of the financial crisis, "We're All In This Together". I'm afraid that this proved to be...
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8 Apr 2020
Could Africa one day rival China?
A Economist video on one of the most fascinating aspects of the global economy: whether or not Africa can growth, and, to some extent, rival China.
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8 Apr 2020
A traffic-light strategy for getting Britain back to business
Combining epidemiology with economics is the way to get Britain back to work.
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8 Apr 2020
Bayes Theorem and the risks of anti-body tests
What are the risks of using a less-than-perfect antibody test? The question has an Oxbridge Economics interview quality to it!
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8 Apr 2020
Global Economic Crisis: Calls for debt relief for the poorest countries
There are growing calls for debt relief for the world's poorest nations in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
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8 Apr 2020
Coronavirus: How drones in Africa could become life-savers
Here is a hopeful article about the future of healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa.
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7 Apr 2020
Who benefits most from online retailing, consumers or businesses? [Year 12 Enrichment Task]
One of the (many) issues for A level students over the coming weeks and months is likely to be keeping momentum as they prepare for university. Perhaps we can help a little with that, by publishing...
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7 Apr 2020
Game Theory, stockpiling, and rational behaviour [Year 13 Enrichment Task]
In this research task we challenge students to consider how game theory might help explain the panic buying of toilet rolls ahead of the UK COVOD-19 lockdown.
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7 Apr 2020
Young and low earners suffer most from the pandemic
Torsten Bell of the Resolution Foundation makes the case that the coronavirus outbreak, as ever, is going to affect the young and low earners worst.
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7 Apr 2020
The global economic centre of gravity will continue to shift after the crisis
Today's article of choice considers how the centre of gravity has been changing in the world economy.
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6 Apr 2020
Hannah unleashes her economics creativity!
Hannah Parkinson, an A-Level economics student has been reading the Economist voraciously over many months to deepen her passion for the subject.
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5 Apr 2020
Virus lays bare the frailty of the social contract
This is a remarkable editorial from the Financial Times which argues that the coronavirus is exacerbating existing inequalities and hitting those in the most precarious jobs and industries hardest.
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