Ageing population causing China Crisis
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that hospitals in China are not capable of coping with the increase in medical problems as a result of China's rapidly ageing population.
Geography A Level Entry Analysis from Summer 2016
A small (1.9%) drop in total A Level entries for AS & A2 Geography in summer 2016. More analysis by exam board below.
What is geography? From the macro - to the micro.
Just what does geography do - and offer - as a discipline? If geographers have often encountered difficulty in promoting their subject as a clearly defined area of focus as history, or method of...
Building effective and functioning cities
Here is a video recording of a talk given by Professor Ed Glaeser from Harvard Cities. He discusses how cities can become a crucial source of economic growth, and how the downsides of city density...
Making Room Underground for 1.5 million City Commuters
The stunning Crossrail project - Europe's largest existing infrastructure project - is nearing completion.
"It's not that we've started breeding like rabbits; we've just stopped dying like flies", wrote Peter Adamson back in 1974 to explain the surging growth in world population. Ironically, the world...
A report has come out this week stating that international co-operation to manage a global environmental issue is showing signs of success: the hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic is...
El Nino is responsible for many climatic effects from droughts to torrential storms and warming oceans. It's also likely to be responsible for CO2 levels passing the 400 ppm (parts per million)...
A Giant 2016/17 Wall Planner for the Geography Department
This will look great on the Geography department wall - a giant A2-sized 2016/17 wall planner. Perfect for adding the dates of field trips, exams, dept birthdays or whatever!
Mastering the A2 40-Mark Questions
If you're struggling to master the A2 40-mark questions, this will shed light and help you to structure your answers in the right way.
Renewable energy growing at its fastest rate ever
Spending on the extraction of fossil fuels, such as natural gas and oil has reduced in recent times, in favour of renewable sources of energy.
There is much concern about plastic in the oceans and the detrimental effect it is having on marine life. However, in a twist to the combination of the material and water, millions of plastic balls...
Time: making the most of the most pressured resource you have in your A level Geography exam
You’ve done the revision, your head is packed with the information, you have all your equipment to hand – and now it’s a case of just doing the geography exam paper. Except, how well you do is...
Teaching Resources for the new AQA A Level Geography
We are pleased to announce details of the first series of tutor2u resources to support the teaching of the new AQA A Level Geography specification.
World humanitarian summit to tackle inequality
The summit will take place on 23-24 May in Istanbul and aims to tackle global inequality on a number of matters.
Last minute tips to avoid panic revision
It's two days away from the first Geography exam and many will be feeling the stress.
Classification types: structuring your answer so that you are 'thinking like a geographer'.
Within more extended answers at both GCSE and AS/A level in geography, there is a need to organise your points. A random stream of consciousness (as the ideas occur to you in the exam hall) may...
Speed-dating: a revision, recall and checking technique
If you’re anything like me, you get to those tightening last few pre-exam lessons and face the dilemma of how to spend the remaining time. Should it be practice questions – which inevitably...
The Canadian state of Alberta in the north-west of the country, has been battling a vast wildfire for four days since the 1st May. It is, in fact, several separate fires which have led to the...