Economics Department

On 19th March 2013 pupils at both KEHS and KES were fortunate enough to attend a talk from Peter Williams, the founder and CEO of Jack Wills the university outfitters…

On Tuesday 26th February, a team of 5 Economics and Business students; Francesca Clough, Abigail Johal, Emma Newman, Kirsty O’Donnell and Julia Wilson attended the National ICAEW Business Game competition…

This is a perfect Valentine’s Economics read which is brilliantly funny and applies the concepts learnt in Economics to the real world of love and dating.  It is a semi-autobiographical…

On January 29th, a group of Business and Economics students attended a talk hosted at Birmingham University on the financial crisis and the changing shape of the world economy by…

The Peter Jones Enterprise Academy was founded by entrepreneur and star of Dragon’s Den, Peter Jones CBE, with a view to encouraging more entrepreneurial activity within the UK, based on…

On Monday 9th July, girls in the Lower Fifth took part in a Business challenge, delivered by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). The girls worked…

Towards the end of the summer term, girls in the Lower Sixth AS Level Business and Economics group have been working towards the Eureka Challenge which takes place at the…

We have been studying the topic of negative and positive externalities in Economics and Business.  I came across the following news items which apply well to the topic: 1. The…

Kinari Patel and Yesha Patel review the Young Enterprise meeting at PriceWaterhouseCoopers: We were invited this week to represent our company Aztec at a Young Enterprise meeting at PriceWaterhouseCoopers where…

The time of the year is approaching when the girls get entrepreneurial and innovative, take a bit of risk, do presentations and deal with questions on the spot.  We have…

Currently in our Economics and Business Studies course we are studying key factors which affect demand and supply and macro-economics. As we are falling into a double dip recession at…

ETHICAL DILEMAS DEBATE AT BIRMINGHAM BUSINESS SCHOOL, BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY (NOV 2011) On Tuesday 1st November, 6 U6th girls went to the ESRC Festival of Social Science “Ethical Dilemmas” Debate at…

By Emma Harrison U6th On Thursday, the Economics department had a visit from Liam Collins from the ifs School of Finance. He spoke about the ifs Student Investor Challenge in…

By Jess Dale U6th At the end of September, I attended a conference at Birmingham Art Museum held by Melody Hossaini, a former contestant on the latest series of ‘The…

Last week, the unexpected warm weather had a number of economic impacts; some people and businesses were winners, whereas others lost out. Beneficiaries of the weather include ice cream sellers…

Despite the widespread belief that teachers jobs are very easy as they ‘do nothing in their holidays’, I can assure you that, that is not the case. After spending the start…