This taster or induction activity can be used to introduce the concepts of scarcity and factors of production.
Here's a potential example of regulatory failure, with the National Audit Office (NAO) thinking that a failure to regulate the energy sector last year, and the collapse of 28 energy companies has...
Stagflation and the Cost of Living Crisis in the UK
Here is a selection of articles on the rapid rise in consumer price inflation in the UK and fears of a return to the stagflation of the 1970s and 1980s.
Is the Sri Lankan economy on the brink of collapse?
Newsnight's Ben Chu investigates what is happening in Sri Lanka - is their economy on the brink of collapse?
Economics taster or intro activity - Data Trumps!
For those teachers looking for a quick activity to support a taster (or intro) session on economics, here's an updated version of a tutor2u favourite. 'Data Trumps' uses the the traditonal Top...
Economics Weekly Quiz - 17 June 2022
Here's our weekly economics news quiz. We have 8 multichoice questions and a 'Classroom mode' for those teachers wishing to use the quiz in class. Good luck!
Has a minimum price on alcohol caused some lower-income consumers to cut back on food and heating?
Economics Weekly Quiz - 10 June 2022
Here's our weekly economics news quiz. We have 8 multichoice questions and a 'Classroom mode' for those teachers wishing to use the quiz in class.
Good luck!
Leila Farha has an ambitious goal - to change the nature of housing markets across the world.
Should the minimum legal age for buying cigarettes be raised to twenty-one years.
EU agrees 40% quota for women on corporate boards
The EU has introduced legislation to increase boardroom diversity, by insisting that companies will have boards with women making up 40% of all board members.
70 Years On - the UK still looks for an Economic Miracle
Larry Elliott has written what amounts to a short economic history of Britain under Queen Elizabeth.
Is the four-day week the future? Not for teachers, I suspect but the biggest ever trial of the four-day week is being launched in the UK.
Economics Weekly Quiz - 27 May 2022
Time fro some half-term fun - here's our weekly economics news quiz. We have 8 multichoice questions and a 'Classroom mode' for those teachers wishing to use the quiz in class. Good luck!
Economics Weekly Quiz - 20 May 2022
Here's our weekly economics news quiz. It would be fair to say that this quiz is a 'cost-of-living' crisis special as price increases have dominated the news. We have 8 multichoice questions and a...
It seems that it's Doomsday in Sri Lanka with the Prime Minister stating that the country has one day's worth of petrol left.
Economics Weekly Quiz - 13 May 2022
It's back! The tutor2u Econ team has returned from the revision workshop tour and put together the weekly economics news quiz. We have 8 multichoice questions and 'Classroom mode' for those...
This World Bank clip looks at how gender inequality is perpetuated in South Asia and how this impinge upon the developmental prospects in the region.
The extent to which the UK has managed to achieve its own targets for recycling household waste is revealed here.
The extent to which UK water companies are making little effort to reduce marine pollution has prompted some so-called 'citizen scientists' to mount their own campaign to maintain environmental...