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26 Jan 2024
Economics Weekly Quiz | 26 January 2024
Here's our weekly economics news quiz covering stories from the UK and global economic events of the passed 7 days.
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25 Jan 2024
New Brexit Rules Set to Increase UK Food Prices
One of the costs of the UK leaving the EU single market will become glaringly apparent in the weeks and months ahead. New post-Brexit border rules are predicted to push up the cost of importing...
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25 Jan 2024
What is Glocalisation?
Although rumours of the death of globalisation are "greatly exaggerated", it seems to be the case that economies have moved away from seeing it as a panacea, and retrenching in the sense that...
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25 Jan 2024
Climate Change - Building Resilience with Education and Flood Defence
This World Bank video clip looks at how the organisation has helped make the provision of education more resilient, with schools increasingly designed to withstand extreme weather incidents. This...
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25 Jan 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – Apple overtakes Samsung in the global smartphone market (Jan 2024)
For the first time in 12 years, Apple has overtaken Samsung in the race to be top of the global smartphone market potentially increasing Apple’s monopoly power is a market that is already fairly...
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24 Jan 2024
Edexcel (A) A Level Economics Synoptic Connections Planner
We've just put the finishing touches to our FREE Synoptic Connections Planners. This resource maps together topics from across the Edexcel specification to help you with your teaching and revision...
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22 Jan 2024
tutor2u launch The Outlet
tutor2u has been around for a while now. And some of our resources have reached that point where, having done their duty in the classroom, they've been replaced by newer versions! Not to worry...
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22 Jan 2024
In the News Teaching Activity –tracking the UK’s international trade patterns (Jan 2024)
The economists at UK in a Changing Europe have taken a closer look at what has been happening to the UK’s international trade patterns in 2023.
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21 Jan 2024
Are tax cuts the best way of stimulating economic growth?
With the news that the Chancellor is contemplating pre-election tax cuts, Will Hutton's Observer piece here looks at whether this is the best way of boosting economic growth.
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21 Jan 2024
AQA A-Level Economics - Year 12 Macro Knowledge Organisers
Here is our second pack of knowledge organisers for AQA A level Economics - this time our focus is the content needed for Year 1 Macro
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19 Jan 2024
Price Capping - London’s single tube and bus fares to be frozen
The announcement of a price freeze for single fares strikes me as another example of a price cap; if it weren't for the intervention single fares would be higher. But what will its effects be? Yes,...
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19 Jan 2024
Economics Weekly Quiz | 19 January 2024
Here's our weekly economics news quiz covering stories from the UK and global economic events of the passed 7 days.
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18 Jan 2024
Edexcel A-Level Economics - Theme 2 Knowledge Organiser Pack 2
Here is our second knowledge organiser for Theme 2 for Edexcel A-Level Economics (A). It covers AD, AS, macro equilibrium, policy objectives, and the three main categories of macro policy. Pack 2...
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18 Jan 2024
Octopus Boss predicts fall in energy prices this spring
Good news for households, in that the CEO of Octopus Energy, Greg Jackson, has forecast that energy prices will tumble in April, because of nature of the market. Gas for April delivery will have...
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18 Jan 2024
Commodity Prices - Cocoa Prices Surge to 40 Year High
World prices for cocoa beans have surged to a forty-year high. Supply-side factors are largely to blame but so too is an increase in speculative demand in the future market as buyers scramble to...
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17 Jan 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – Market forces caused a price slump in the lithium market in 2023 (Jan 2024)
In 2023 oversupply in the lithium market caused an 80% collapse in prices in the year to December 2023 from $80,000 to $13,600 a ton.
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17 Jan 2024
UK Economy - Inflation Rises to 4%
The annual rate of inflation in the UK has edged higher to 4% in the year to December 2023 and there are worries that the widening conflict in the Middle East will bring about another external...
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15 Jan 2024
Spring 2024 Economics Revision Livestreams
Our programme of revision livestreams for A-Level economists kicks off again tonight (Tuesday) at 1830 with a session on Oligopoly. These fast-paced revision sessions are written to be suitable for...
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15 Jan 2024
In the News Teaching Activity –the debate over the Labour party’s £28bn green investment pledge (Jan 2024)
Another Sky News explainer from Ed Conway - this time he takes a closer look at the fiscal implications of the Labour party’s pledge to spend £28bn on green investment.
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12 Jan 2024
Economics Weekly Quiz | 12 January 2024
Here's our weekly economics news quiz covering stories from the UK and global economic events of the passed 7 days.
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