Channels and Directories

In total, the Virtual Worlds directory accounts for just over a 1/3 of site traffic. Includes the following:

• Virtual Economy
• Virtual Bank of Biz/ed
• Virtual Developing Country
• Virtual Factory
• Virtual Learning Arcade
• Virtual Farm

New Virtual Worlds will be developed in future, at the rate of approximately two per year, to account for different business sectors.

These are frequently-occurring resources dealing with the latest real-life developments in Biz/ed's subject areas.

• In the News - updated daily. The archive contains over 2,500 news items
• Mind Your Business
• Wanna Argument
• At Your Leisure
• Research Projects
• Problem Based Learning

Biz/ed also runs Challenge the Chancellor, in association with University of Bournemouth and BDO Stoy Hayward. This is an extremely popular competition for GCSE and A-level students to test their economic acumen.

Specialist materials taken from areas across the whole site are provided for the following subject areas:

• Accounting
• Business Studies
• Economics
• Leisure, Sport and Recreation
• Travel and Tourism

There are also dedicated sections to help students and educators in the following qualifications:

• International Baccalaureate
• Nuffield Economics and Business
• Scottish Curriculum

Lesson plans and activities are timetabled for the entire year, and appear on a weekly to fortnightly basis; archived plans and activities are updated weekly. We provide for the following curricula levels:

• Level 2: GCSE; BTEC First Diploma
• 16-19: A2, AS, BTEC, International Baccalaureate
• HE: MBA

Real-life financial information to help with students' research.

• Business Profiles - specialist profiles of 19 companies
• Ratio Analysis
• Financial Database
• Times 100 - Case studies on the current Times 100 companies.

Invaluable sources of economic data.

• TimeWeb
• Key Economic Data
• Office for National Statistics
• Penn World Data

Helpful sections for reference and further research.

• Glossary - contains over 1,300 terms
• Diagram Bank
• Study Skills
• Journals
• Acronym Finder - over 230 business terms
• MBA Resources