This taster or induction activity can be used to introduce the concepts of scarcity and factors of production.

Read more ›

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...

Read more ›

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.

Read more ›

Newsnight's Ben Chu investigates what is happening in Sri Lanka - is their economy on the brink of collapse?

Read more ›

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...

Read more ›

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!

Read more ›

Has a minimum price on alcohol caused some lower-income consumers to cut back on food and heating?

Read more ›

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!

Read more ›

Leila Farha has an ambitious goal - to change the nature of housing markets across the world.

Read more ›

Should the minimum legal age for buying cigarettes be raised to twenty-one years.

Read more ›

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.

Read more ›

Larry Elliott has written what amounts to a short economic history of Britain under Queen Elizabeth.

Read more ›

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.

Read more ›

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!

Read more ›

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...

Read more ›

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.

Read more ›

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...

Read more ›

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.

Read more ›

The extent to which the UK has managed to achieve its own targets for recycling household waste is revealed here.

Read more ›

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...

Read more ›

© 2002-2024 Tutor2u Limited. Company Reg no: 04489574. VAT reg no 816865400.