Recommended site

I can strongly recommend John Sloman's economics news site to AS and A2 students looking for a way of relating what they study in class to what is going on in the real world.

Yes, it is linked to his book and, yes, it is all part of the online promotion which seems to accompany textbooks these days. But it is well worth a look. It takes the form of a blog with entries that give links to news and articles. Each blog is followed by a series of questions. The search facility is good - I used it to find resources on the problems of interpreting GDP statistics for my Year 11 GCSE students. Unless you have Sloman's book, finding blogs linked to chapters is not likely to be useful.

We are currently reviewing textbook provision for sixth form students and Sloman's book is a contender - it is one we have used in the past with success.