Blog and updates
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27 Jan 2016
Trip Advisor Reviews - Fixed and Variable Costs in Action!
A nice lesson in fixed and variable costs right here!
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27 Jan 2016
Economics Scattergories
Looking for something different to get your Economics students thinking? Try this version of the popular game as a starter or revision exercise - you can download the editable word file to suit!
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27 Jan 2016
Teaching Behavioural Economics at A Level - Course Resource Pack
Behavioural Economics is a fascinating new element for some A Level Economics specifications and delegates attending our recent CPD course had time to explore a wide range of new resources to...
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26 Jan 2016
Interactive Oil Supply Curves
Have you ever tried to plot a supply curve? Can you illustrate the positive relationship of higher prices stimulating a greater quantity supplied? Teachers or students covering this topic might...
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26 Jan 2016
Creative Destruction & TV Viewing
It won't be a surprise to many students that the relevance of the internet and its content is now becoming greater than TV (click here for an article on the change). It's a really good example of...
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25 Jan 2016
The economic impact of lower oil prices
Oversupply and excess stockpiles of oil is causing the price of oil to tumble, and leading to calls from OPEC for non-OPEC members to cooperate in order to maintain a higher oil price. Clearly this...
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25 Jan 2016
Brand New Editions of our Edexcel A2 Economics (Legacy Specs) Course Companions
We're delighted to announce the immediate availability of brand new versions of our popular Course Companions for Edexcel A2 Economics.
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24 Jan 2016
South African Rand in Freefall - The Barmy Army's Take!
The South African rand is in freefall at the moment and England's Barmy Army watching the test match the other day decided to poke some gentle fun at their hosts. This would make a great starter...
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24 Jan 2016
The Big Short - Organise an Economics Class Trip!
I saw The Big Short last night - it has Oscar winner written all over it, especially a fantastic performance from Steve Carell. Why not organise a class trip for Economics students? The Big Short...
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22 Jan 2016
Beyond the Bike lesson resource - analysing the impact of Uber
This week's Beyond the Bike lesson resource provides students with the opportunity to examine Uber more closely using their Theory of the Firm knowledge, as well as assessing the growth and...
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22 Jan 2016
Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Lesson Resource
A great idea to get students thinking about AD-AS using Pinterest.
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21 Jan 2016
The Price of Blue and Pink - Gender Pricing Under Scrutiny
There has been a lot of coverage in the media in recent days about a cluster of surveys which appear to show evidence of gender-pricing for more or less identical products - in other words price...
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21 Jan 2016
Asda cuts costs to counter the onslaught from Lidl and Aldi
Political scientists often talk of the 'squeezed middle' and this appears to be what's happening in the supermarket sector. Asda appear to be feeling the pinch, and are looking at having to retrench.
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21 Jan 2016
Customer apathy limits banking contestability
This little snippet on the BBC website flags up the relative lack of 'market churn' in the banking sector, and perhaps the lack of competition in the sector. Customer inertia has meant that the...
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20 Jan 2016
Is private sector debt sinking China?
The eyes of the financial and economics worlds are now focussed on China. A fascinating perspective was provided last week in the leafy borough of Kingston upon Thames. The university has recruited...
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19 Jan 2016
Oxfam report on wealth inequality - flaws in the data?
You may have seen the news this week that Oxfam have released a report suggesting that 1% of the world's population now owns 50% of its wealth (I like this resource from Oxfam, aimed at GCSE...
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19 Jan 2016
Profound challenges for the UK steel industry
This Channel 4 news report focuses on the planned job losses at the Port Talbot plant in South Wales, where 750 posts will be cut.
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19 Jan 2016
Inflation - Explained
This is a short introductory primer on inflation from the Guardian.
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18 Jan 2016
The National Health Service (NHS) Explained
I am teaching fiscal policy at the start of this term and when I get onto government spending and debates about the size, scope an financing of state-provided goods and services, this Guardian...
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