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Message from the editor

Jul 01, 2007; Wall, Nancy ... The summer issue is always a difficult one from the poinf of view of getting reviews of new books and resources. Typically, timetables for accreditation of new courses are so tight that dedicated resources come out just before teaching starts. There is very little time for authors, software ...

Business ethics and corporate social responsibility

Jul 01, 2007; Hall, Dave ... Teaching business ethics and corporate social responsibility can enliven teaching and learning in business studies by opening up some of the core ideas of business activity to critical scrutiny. Implicit in this is the need for business studies as a subject to examine important contemporary ...

Road pricing - don't forget the economics

Jul 01, 2007; Bamford, Colin ... Over ten years ago in Teaching Business and Economics, I wrote an article that set out the economist's case for road pricing. These arguments remain as strong as ever. The problem we currently face is that political forces, with little transport logic underpinning them, have moved the debate ...

Stakeholders: do you have a voice?

Jul 01, 2007; Frater, Glynis; Sumner, Carol ... This GCSE business studies lesson will give students a practical understanding of the interests of different stakeholder groups. If a local issue is used, it will help students to understand the varying interests of different groups in community, business and economic issues. By the end ...

Setting up a departmental website

Jul 01, 2007; White, Tom ... There are good reasons for a business studies or economics department to have its own website. Even a very basic departmental website can bring immediate benefits for teaching staff, especially in a department trying to share resources and good practice. It helps individual teachers organise ...

Life in the fast lane

Jul 01, 2007; Grey, Peter; Taylor, Dan ... Fast tracking learners can be great for their motivation and stretch. Creative curriculum management can deliver excellent and imaginative outcomes but can also put added pressure on teachers and stress on learners. It might place quantity ahead of quality as regards qualifications. So is fast ...

Being enterprising in schools

Jul 01, 2007; Reaich, Neil ... Are you an enterprise co-ordinator charged with moving enterprise into the whole school agenda? Have you been lumbered with enterprise and told to deliver it along with other responsibilities? If my knowledge of what happened in the South West applies nationally, you are unlikely to have been ...

Why use a virtual learning environment?

Jul 01, 2007; Haran, Kalea ... The classroom should be an energetic and interactive environment where teachers prepare students to participate in a rapidly changing world. As a teacher, I see it as my role to guide students to be more autonomous in their learning. The business studies course I am in charge of is ...

Using Moodle to create a virtual learning environment

Jul 01, 2007; Henderson, Stephen ... Virtual learning environments have emerged as the internet has moved into a mature stage and as technology in the classroom has impacted on traditional teaching and learning methods. These tools take the classic classroom into a virtual place where learning can be reinforced or recapped later ...

International Trade and Globalisation, Charles Smith

Jul 01, 2007; Moran, Geoff ... ECONOMICS International Trade and Globalisation, Charles Smith, third edition, Anforme Limited (www.economics.ac), 88 pages, paperback, £6.95, ISN: 1 905504 10 1 When thisbook wasfirst published in 1999, it was under the title Understanding International Trade. The second edition ...

Guide to Economic Indicators, Making Sense of Economics

Jul 01, 2007; Turner, Sue ... Guide to Economic Indicators, Making Sense of Economics, The Economist, £20, ISBN 978-1-86197-947-6 One of a well-established series produced by The Economist, thisguide purportsto explain all you need to know in order to understand and interpret economicfigures. It contains three ...

AS Economics and Business Studies Review, Student Unit Guides, Andrew Ashwin

Jul 01, 2007; Hall, Sue ... NUFFIELD ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS AS Economics and Business Studies Review, Student Unit Guides, Andrew Ashwin, Philip Allan Updates (www.philipallan.co.uk), £6.95 per module This series is divided into three separate modules which cover objectives, efficiency and change respectively ....