Secondary Business

Business: A great way to think about delayering!

I am currently teaching organisational structures to my Year 12 groups, and they always ask for real examples of concepts such as delayering, chains of command and spans of control. I thought that this business example would be a great way to not only teach organisational structures, and motivation, but… Read More

Pre-release for Edexcel Business 2018

The prelease came out at the end of November 2017 and is focused around the confectionary industry. This also links with a blog that I wrote last year about the Kraft and Cadbury takeover, ideal pre-reading for studying Edexcel. The pre-release is an opportunity for students to do some of… Read More

The growth of budget gyms

Anyone who is currently teaching the Edexcel syllabus will know that the pre-release for the basis for the final exam is the Health and Fitness industry. Trends in the industry is one of the things that I have asked my students to look at, they don’t need to know the… Read More

What is happening to our high street stores?

2 major high street chains announced that they would be closing stores. Marks and Spencer (M&S) has announced it will be closing 6 stores and department store Debenhams will also be closing 10. This comes just months after M&S announced it would be shedding hundreds of jobs at it’s head… Read More

Change at Cadbury

Back in 2010 Kraft the huge American conglomerate who is responsible for making products such as Philadelphia cream cheese and Oreo’s took over the iconic British company. There was much media coverage about the issues that this could cause with the possibility of the original heritage and culture Cadbury being… Read More

Business Ethics

Discover a range of activities and ideas to help you to introduce the idea of business ethics to your A level class. Read More

BizQuiz! – October 2016

1. Priscilla Chan and her husband have pledged $3bn (£2.3bn) to fund medical research over the next decade. At a press conference in San Francisco, they said their ultimate goal was to “cure, prevent or manage all diseases by the end of the century”. Who is her husband? a)Bill Gates… Read More