Political

Lesson Plans, Mind Maps and Activities for Educators

Be Your Own Chancellor Worksheet (Activities)
Conflicts in Government Policy Objectives - Activity (Activities)
Ensuring Relevant and Accurate Information: Freedom of Information Act (Lesson plans)
External Influences 1 - Mind Map (Mind maps)
External Influences 2 (Lesson plans)
External Influences 3: Food Labelling - Activity (Activities)
External Influences 3: Legal and Political - Mind Map (Mind maps)
External Influences and the Stakeholder Model: McDonald's - Activity (Activities)
External Influences on Business - Mind Map (Mind maps)
Government Expenditure Worksheets [Virtual Economy] (Activities)
Government Failure: Tuition Fees for Higher Education - Activity (Activities)
Government Intervention in Markets: Prescribed Drugs in North America - Activity (Activities)
Government Policy (Lesson plans)
Income Tax Worksheets [Virtual Economy] (Activities)
Macroeconomic Policies - Activity (Activities)
Market Power, Competition and Regulation: Anti-Competitive Behaviour - Activity (Activities)
Minimum Wage [Virtual Learning Arcade] (Activities)
Pressure Groups - Activity (Activities)
Profits and Losses (Lesson plans)
Public Sector Spending - Activity (Activities)
Recent Developments in Travel and Tourism - Activity (Activities)
Regulation: Competition, Fair Trading and Advertising (Lesson plans)
Responses to Recession Worksheet [TimeWeb] (Activities)
Subsidies and Taxes - Activity (Activities)
Supporting Organisations in Travel and Tourism - Activity (Activities)
The European Union 1: Better Out Than In? - Activity (Activities)
The European Union 2: Poverty and Employment - Activity (Activities)
The European Union: Single Market and the euro (Lesson plans)
The Stakeholder Economy (Activities)
The UK's International Trading Position - Activity (Activities)
VAT Worksheets [Virtual Economy] (Activities)
Worksheet on Taxation (Student Version: Advanced) (Activities)
Worksheet on Taxation (Student Version: Beginners) (Activities)
Worksheet - Role of the Bank of England - External Environment - Business bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (Activities)
Worksheets - Government Policy - External Environment - Business bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (Activities)

Case Studies

Avoiding the Blame for Work-Based Fatalities (Wanna Argument)
Barring Entry to Bouncers: Licensing Door Supervisors - 180405 (At Your Leisure)
Big versus Small Government (Wanna Argument)
Business Ethics - 5 March 2007 (Problem Based Learning)
Business Ownership (Mind Your Business)
Calling Time on the Licensing Laws - 130904 (At Your Leisure)
Countryside Change as the CRoW Flies - 130904 (At Your Leisure)
Football, Finance and the Future (Wanna Argument)
Fuel Taxes (Wanna Argument)
Funding UK Higher Education: From Elitism to Mass Market (Wanna Argument)
In Love with the Car (At Your Leisure)
Iraq Two Years On - A Glimmer of Hope? (Mind Your Business)
Just the Ticket: Ticket Pricing in the UK - 280205 (At Your Leisure)
Marketing Glastonbury - 081203 (Mind Your Business)
Mergers and Acquisitions (Mind Your Business)
Microbreweries: Brewing Up A Storm? (Wanna Argument)
Negative Externalities, Transport Policy and Congestion Charging - 230204 (Mind Your Business)
Never in a Month of Sundays (At Your Leisure)
No Dice: UK Gambling Laws to Change - 251004 (At Your Leisure)
Oil, Petrol, Taxes and Elasticity - 061003 (Mind Your Business)
Oligopolies, Fair Trade, Bananas and Protectionism - 190104 (Mind Your Business)
Packaging, Protection and Pollution (At Your Leisure)
Party Political Funding: Paying the Politicians at Poll Time (Wanna Argument)
Play for Today (At Your Leisure)
Public Safety v. Personal Freedom: Should all Cyclists wear Helmets? - 170105 (At Your Leisure)
Rail Privatisation (Wanna Argument)
Sexual Health - Can Governments Sort It? (Mind Your Business)
Taxes - to Cut or not to Cut? (Wanna Argument)
Thatcherite Economics - a worthwhile legacy? (Mind Your Business)
The Balance of Payments, Exchange Rates Elasticity and Inflation - 031103 (Mind Your Business)
The Ban on Hunting - the Death of the Countryside? (Mind Your Business)
The Budget - Plans, Promises and Presentation (Mind Your Business)
The EU - A case for exit? (Mind Your Business)
The Euro (Wanna Argument)
The Final Drag: England to Ban Smoking in Public Places - 221104 (At Your Leisure)
The Firefighters' Dispute: Fanning the Flames? (Wanna Argument)
The Pensions Crisis - What is it all about and should we be worried? (Mind Your Business)
The Railways - 8 January 2007 (Problem Based Learning)
Total Recall? (At Your Leisure)
Trade, Ethics, Poverty, Protection and Markets - 150903 (Mind Your Business)
Transition Economies: From Planned to Market Systems - 031103 (Mind Your Business)
Unions, Management, Strikes, Confrontation and Game Theory - 101103 (Mind Your Business)
Which Way the Wind Blows? (Wanna Argument)
World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada): Wada Happening with Drugs in Sport? (Wanna Argument)

Blog articles

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The 99-ers Wipeout (Boom and Bust blog article) 12 Jul 11
'Elf and Safety' 3 (In the News) 15 Jun 11
'Elf and Safety' 2 (In the News) 14 Jun 11
'Elf and Safety' - The UK Gone Mad? (In the News) 13 Jun 11

Business Focus

Simulations, Games and Virtual Worlds

Finding out more...

Boosting Growth - How Can We Grow More? [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Deflationary Fiscal Policy [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Explanation - Economic Indicators - External Environment - Business bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (General Resources)
Explanation - Government Policy - External Environment - Business bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (General Resources)
Explanation of Debt Ratio [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Explanation of Government Expenditure [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Explanation of Income Tax [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Explanation of Interest Rate [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Explanation of PSNCR [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Explanation of VAT [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Explanation - Role of the Bank of England - External Environment - Business bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (General Resources)
Explanation - The euro - Europe - Economics bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (General Resources)
General Economic Management [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Government Expenditure Theories [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Government Expenditure [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Income Tax Theories [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Income Tax [Virtual Learning Arcade] (General Resources)
Indirect Tax - What Happens to the Market Price? [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Inflation Policy [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Inflation Theories [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Monetary Policy Committee - Monetary Policy - Economics bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (General Resources)
Progressive or Regressive - Who Pays What? [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
PSNCR and the Trade Cycle - Why Does It Vary? [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Reflationary Fiscal Policy [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
The Formation of Trading Blocs [ Biz/ed Virtual Developing Country ] (General Resources)
Theories - Role of the Bank of England - External Environment - Business bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (General Resources)
Theories - The euro - Europe - Economics bank - Virtual Bank of Biz/ed (General Resources)
Unemployment and Voter Turnout Rates [Timeweb] (General Resources)
Unemployment Policy [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Unemployment Theories [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Using Fiscal Policy [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
Using Monetary Policy [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)
VAT Theories [Virtual Economy] (General Resources)