Blog and updates
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23 Nov 2015
OCR A2 Economics F585 Toolkit for June 2016
tutor2u's comprehensive teacher support toolkit for the OCR F585 pre-release material is now available.
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22 Nov 2015
Zambia strives to turn natural wealth into human wealth
This is a truly superb resource on the patterns of exports and imports for each country in the world. Zambia features heavily in the F585 case study as an exemplar of a country seeking to move...
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21 Nov 2015
Economics Topic Study Notes
The tutor2u Economics Channel features a wide variety of topic study notes designed to support A Level, Pre-U and IB Economics students around the world.
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20 Nov 2015
Sustainable Development Goals
There are some great "off-the-shelf" resources available online that can really help students gain a deeper understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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20 Nov 2015
Why Financial Markets Matter - Short Lesson Video
A bright and breezy animated introduction to the role and importance of financial markets here from the Bank of England! A useful scene-setter when teaching financial markets.
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20 Nov 2015
HBOS Report - Market Failure and Regulatory Capture
A report from the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority has suggested that up to 10 executives that worked for HBOS should be banned from working in the City in the future. The named...
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19 Nov 2015
Gender Equality - Higher or Lower Teaching Resource
The World Economic Forum have produced a report ranking countries around the world in terms of their gender equality status. The report ranks over 140 economies according to how well they...
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18 Nov 2015
The Cookie Monster and Behavioural Economics
Ahead of yesterday's tutor2u Teaching Behavioural Economics at A-Level CPD event in London, Jon Clark and I were discussing the benefits of using short film and TV clips to illustrate key...
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17 Nov 2015
Could Ernie replace Andy? The Bank’s take on automation
The Chief Economist of the Bank of England, Andy Haldane, has been in the news with his predictions that up to 15 million jobs in the UK are at risk of being lost to automation. This is a huge...
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17 Nov 2015
Non-price competition - the battle for fast recharging
Battery life and recharging times for portable devices are fast-becoming really significant as non-price factors driving the competitiveness of products. Huawei is a Chinese business that leads...
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16 Nov 2015
Structural Unemployment from Mitchell and Webb
I absolutely love this hilarious clip from Mitchell and Webb, which explores the impact of a change in the structure of the economy from the perspective of Stone Age man.
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15 Nov 2015
Aggregate demand low investment and corporate cash mountains
Investment as a % of GDP in the UK economy remains in the doldrums, but businesses are not short of cash and the government can borrow on the bond market at historically low interest rates...
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15 Nov 2015
The UK Productivity Issue
The British economy has suffered for many years from a persistent productivity gap. Output per person employed has remained well below the level of many of the UK's major competitor nations. Why is...
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15 Nov 2015
Hands of Redcar - structural unemployment
There is a super series on the BBC at the moment exploring the impact of the closure of the steelworks in Redcar. You can judge the mood on the ground with this interview with Karen and John who...
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13 Nov 2015
Easyjet, local multipliers and economic growth
This article today from the BBC explores the impact that the growth of low-cost airlines such as Easyjet can have on towns and cities that are Easyjet destinations.
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13 Nov 2015
Assessing the predicted impact of climate change
I like this map visualisation (below) from the Independent showing which countries are most at risk from climate change - the neat thing about this risk assessment is that it is based on two key...
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12 Nov 2015
President Obama's Behavioural Insights Executive Order
A few weeks ago, President Obama issued an unusual Executive Order (a presidential instruction that effectively bypasses the minefield of getting legislation through Congress). The Executive Order...
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12 Nov 2015
tutor2u Economics is Coming to Malaysia: 25-27 February 2016
We are delighted to be visiting our teaching colleagues in the Far East once again in 2016. The tutor2u Economics team is visiting Kuala Lumpur on 25-27 February 2016 to deliver two of our most...
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12 Nov 2015
tutor2u Economics is Coming to Dubai: 9-11 February 2016
We are delighted to be visiting our teaching colleagues in the UAE again in 2016. The tutor2u Economics team is visiting Dubai on 9-11 February 2016 to deliver two of our most popular Economics CPD...
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11 Nov 2015
The Oil Price and Exchange Rates
I’ve recently finished teaching exchange rates with my Y13 students and I came across this interesting article in The Economist. It talks about the relationship between the oil price and the...
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