Teaching Business & Economics back issues from October 2004:
Editor's comment
Oct 01, 2004; ... Welcome to the Autumn edition of Teaching Business and Economics. The edition keeps to its pattern of a mix of articles that aim to update subject knowledge and describe innovative classroom practice. We are also continuing to include papers focused on citizenship education. As usual I express ...
The Exchange Rate Roller Coaster
Oct 01, 2004; ... 1. COMPETITION IN THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKETS This article is concerned with several forms of competitive behaviour that affect nominal exchange rates and generate exchange rate volatility. This behaviour includes: * competition between monetary authorities and the currencies ...
Economics in the School Curriculum: a breakdown of consensus
Oct 01, 2004; ... INTRODUCTION Subjects gather around themselves communities of people who compete and collaborate with one another, who define and defend their boundaries and who demand allegiance from their members, A subject acts as a 'flag' of allegiance so that the differences and tensions within a ...
Case Studies and Examinations
Oct 01, 2004; ... In this final article I wish to consider how case studies are used in examinations and how best to prepare students to be successful in answering the type of questions that are set based on case studies. I will illustrate the difference between students who have mastered the necessary skills to ...
Setting Standards and Saving the Environment: EMAS and ISO 14001
Oct 01, 2004; ... INTRODUCTION The origins of environmental management systems (EMSs) can be traced to the 1980s and the USA, where organizations developed ad hoc systems suited to their own requirements. By the early 1990s, support had grown for an internationally recognised standard for such systems. As ...
Using discussion to develop students' economic thinking in citizenship lessons
Oct 01, 2004; ... INTRODUCTION At Wilnecote High School we have separate citizenship lessons which are provided on a 'carousel' basis. In 2002/2003 I took responsibility for teaching a 5-week topic on economic understanding to a Year 10 class. My experience with the first two groups revealed several ...
TUTOR2U, GCSE BUSINESS STUDIES, POWERBUNDLE 2004
Oct 01, 2004; ... TUTOR2U, GCSE BUSINESS STUDIES, POWERBUNDLE 2004 CD Rom. Publisher: Tutor2u Limited 2004. Number of Pages: 165. Price: £23.50 (incl VAT), multiple user licence £4.70 (incl VAT), Copy CD £1.18. Authors: Dan Cottrell and Charlie Boddington This CD Rom is part of a suite of materials ...
EBEA web site - Links
Oct 01, 2004; ... In the last journal, we looked at the events section of the EBEA web site. This is updated regularly to bring you details of the events taking place and the Annual Conference. In this journal, we will look a little more closely at another section - the links section. You can access the ...
U.S. & COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS TEXTBOOK
Oct 01, 2004; ... U.S. & COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS TEXTBOOK Author: Anthony J Bennell Publisher: Philip Allan Updates (June 2004) ISBN 0 86003 760 6 Paperback; price £16.95 378 pages; full colour Anthony Bennett is well known for his U.S. Government and Politics Annual Survey, and has now ...
Painting by numbers: using whiteboard technology to illustrate the uses of accounting information in the teaching of A-level Business Studies
Oct 01, 2004; ... Why do some teachers of Business Studies reserve the use of financial information exclusively for the Accounting and Finance module? Is that the best way to help students to appreciate the wider role of financial data in the real world of business and industry? This article sets out to ...
Firms Gambling on Growth in Gambling
Oct 01, 2004; ... You must have seen it in the papers, and the television news. Las Vegas style casinos have been predicted to appear in seaside resorts in the UK. If you had listened more carefully or read below the headlines in the papers you may be aware that government is likely to deregulate the market in ...
Finding your way around Biz/ed
Oct 01, 2004; ... This article is aimed at providing you with a tour around the Biz/ed site to help build the resources we have available into your planning. There are in excess of 15,000 pages on the site with the number growing every week as new resources are published. This means that few people will be in a ...
BUSINESS CAFÉ
Oct 01, 2004; ... BUSINESS CAFÉ. Published on line by Tutor2 Limited. Written by a range of authors who are teachers, lecturers and examiners. Can be purchased on line from tutor2u.net, available to schools or colleges ordering on behalf of their students Price: £52.88 (inclVAT)for a base 1-year subscription ...
DICTIONARY OF BUSINESS
Oct 01, 2004; ... DICTIONARY OF BUSINESS Publisher: Bloomsbury. 453 pages (468 including supplements) ISBN: 0 - 7475 - 6980 - 0 Price: £9.99 CONTENT Bloomsbury's Dictionary of Business claims to furnish the reader with a 'British and American English vocabulary' of business and business-related ...
THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS - John Kay
Oct 01, 2004; ... THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS - John Kay Penguin 2003 new material 2004 3 70 pages plus notes ISBN 0-140-29672-7 Price -£8.99 The thrust of this book is an argument that market economies solve economic problems more effectively than planned economies. It sets out the "American Business Model" ...
APPLIED ECONOMICS 10TH EDITION
Oct 01, 2004; ... APPLIED ECONOMICS 10TH EDITION, Edited by Alan Griffiths and Stuart Wall, FT Prentice Hall, 2004, 668 pages, paperback, £36.99, ISBN 0273684329. This is the tenth edition of a text which first appeared in 1984, an average of one edition every two years. The style and structure of the ...