Teaching Business & Economics

A Personal Reflection On the Quality Mark Experience

Both economics and business studies are taught at A level, with members of staff teaching all elements of both subjects. The process The first undertaking was to brief the other members of the department and the senior leadership team of the school.

Message From the Editor

Many awarding bodies will also offer teacher support including teaching resources. [...] there have been some doubts about the usefulness of this approach because of the difficulty of defining exactly what qualities the star ratings imply and in achieving consistency between reviewers.

The Ofsted Business Education Report

[...] teachers need to be absolutely clear in their own minds about what evaluation is. [...] students need to be specifically taught what is meant by analysis and what is meant by evaluation.

Choosing a Course: Which Gcse?

First of all, there is the issue of progression to consider. Here's a final thought: with all the enterprise and entrepreneurship in the specifications, should schools make business studies at GCSE compulsory and thus ensure that Year 10 students have their enterprise entitlement?

Entrepreneurs

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Aqa Business Subjects and Economics - an Innovative Suite of Modular Subjects

Throughout the development phase of the new specifications at AQA, we have actively taken on board teachers' comments to provide continuity with our existing, popular specifications but also to update the subject content. Business Subjects and Economics, is an exciting modular suite of subjects, which we hope will engage students by equipping them with the tools and concepts to make sense of the dynamic world of business and economics in which they live.

Gcse 2009 From Edexcel a Tested, Successful New Business Gcse

The Year 10 exam is in two parts: * an objective test exam, requiring students to develop thinking skills within the year (objective tests should not be underestimated) but leaving written skills such as evaluation to Year 11 - this exam accounts for 25 per cent of the total GCSE assessment * the controlled assessment task, which many centres will get students to carry out the research in the June/July period at the end of year 10 - it accounts for 25 per cent of the total GCSE. There are fo...

Ocr Business Qualifications

OCR GCSE Business Studies This new and exciting specification employs an analytical, evaluative and investigative approach to the study of business studies. The specification incorporates the belief that a business studies course should enable candidates both to understand the dynamic environment in which business operates and to appreciate the varied factors which impact upon business activity and business behaviour.

Wjec Business Courses

The later questions, based often on real business scenarios and case study material, provide an opportunity for analysis and evaluation. Research is conducted under low level control over a six-week period and analysis and evaluation are carried out under high level control in a time slot of three hours.

Gcse Business Subjects From Ccea

There is only one tier of entry for this specification, which means that candidates will have access to the full grade range from A* to G. Controlled assessment for GCSE Business Studies takes the form of a research and report writing task. GCSE Applied Business (single award) GCSE Applied Business (single award) is a linear specification: all assessment is taken at the end of the course.

Will the Current Crisis Bring an End to the Chinese Miracle?

(Labour markets and the banking system still have a long way to go in this respect.) But liberalisation of the economy increased allocative efficiency at the firm and at national level and provided incentives for the private sector to become more productive. * Globalisation and the free movement of capital brought foreign investment and capital equipment that China could not itself have produced. Without a social welfare system, Chinese people know that they have to have savings in case of j...

Aqa As Business Studies

Useful detail is added through the use of these features: * Key Terms - a glossary which is great for helping students achieve knowledge and understanding marks * Did you know sections, which provide interesting additional information * Fact File, providing relevant statistics and data * Examiners voice, giving useful exam tips * What do you think at the end of each chapter giving opportunity for student reflection on the key aspects of the material this is a useful feature if the text is to ...

Aqa Business Studies As

[...] though this is more a criticism of the AQA specification than the textbook itself, some topics are not covered within one chapter.

As Economics, Ocr

A LEVEL ECONOMICS AS Economics, OCR, Peter Smith, Philip Allan Updates, 2008, 232 pages, £18.99, ISBN 978-0340-94807-1 This is the textbook in use in my department so I can comment on the basis of using the book during the autumn term.

Ocr Economics Student Unit Guide As Unit 1, Markets in Action

At a basic level, it is a useful aide memoire, but it also teaches students about examination technique and provides a range of questions for independent interactive revision at home.

Labour Markets: The Economics of Work and Leisure

Format and style kkk-k The book breaks down the topics into small manageable chunks, supporting well-placed theory with easy-to-understand diagrams, statistics and real world examples.

Sense and Sustainability: Educating for a Low Carbon World

There is no doubt that changes are occurring in the business world and this is the first textbook that I have come across which provides case study material of the new models in sufficient detail and encourages students to think in a critical way. [...] I would urge teachers to read and digest the messages from the book as they are relevant and should influence our delivery if the purpose of education is to prepare people for the future world and its challenges.

Sim Venture, Venture Simulations Ltd

The game can be used to explore specific areas of the business studies curriculum, such as the marketing research required before deciding about price and promotional material. At key stage 5 there is scope to use the game to prepare a business plan for a start up or expansion business, aimed at an investor, lender or potential partner. A site licence at £750 is steep, and there are other games available at a lower price to support teaching and learning of business studies and to show how b...

Fortune and Venture, Fortune & Venture Ltd.

Fortune and Venture believe that playing this game will help develop understanding of sources of finance, break even, cash flow, profit and loss, balance sheets and ratios. In addition some businesses have different rules: for instance, if you land on the opticians, you must roll the dice and incur different charges depending on whether the number rolled is odd or even.

The Economic Naturalist

Students were encouraged to value their own economic reasoning and rely on introductory economic understanding of concepts such as cost benefit analysis, price discrimination and rational choice theory in order to produce divergent thinking rather than convergent thinking. Answers become less predictable when questions are given varied contexts, for example: "Why are the most expensive flats in a high-rise building in India those on the upper floors, while the most expensive ones in a low-ri...

Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations

[...] in the style of Freakonomics, share prices are used to estimate how much political connections are worth to Indonesian businesses; import and export figures give an idea of how much smuggling goes on between Hong Kong and mainland China; the importance of cultural ideas of morality in the promulgation of corruption is extrapolated from unpaid parking violations by UN diplomats in New York; and satellite imagery is used to assess the impact of rainfall on civil disturbances. The economi...

The Art of Strategy

In the classroom, this book could be referred to for a case study on game theory when studying the theory of the firm at A2 rather than using the prisoner's dilemma, as there are many interesting cases considered within this book.