Enrichment
Your fantasy Cabinet
20th September 2016
Here's a fun lesson idea to teach students about Cabinet at the same time as building some knowledge about former politicians, based on the BBC's Fantasy Cabinet concept.
The BBC page suggests a previously well-known politician to be appointed as the Minister for specific departments, for example, Michael Portillo for Transport, David Cameron as Deputy PM, and David Blunkett for Work and Pensions. Who would you choose? Who would your students choose? And how would it differ if we operated an American-style system in which the Cabinet members didn't need to be elected politicians?
Ruth Tarrant
Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.
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