World Cup Application Project
Overview The World Cup Application Project is designed to help students develop their macroeconomic application and judgement skills. Although the project uses the structure of the World Cup, the focus is not on football (I have a blog post coming out with Economics of the World Cup links soon for that!) Students use the countries in World Cup groups as case studies for researching economic conditions and applying macroeconomic policy decisions. The project has two main stage
Cobbled together Financial Markets Paper 3 Investigation Practice (AQA)
This has more extracts in it than a normal paper 3 and two of each type of question, so it's less suitable for strict time practise but better for general technique practise. The combination of: no choice in the AQA paper 3 (after students are typically used to hedging their revision based on the notion they do get a choice in P1 and P2 a topic that typically students under revise a topic which has pretty good synoptic links all means I always want to make sure students have
LSESU Economics Society Essay Competition 2026
Run by the LSE Students' Union Economics Society in partnership with Aseeder Education, this is a free, global competition for students who have just finished their penultimate or final year of secondary school, plus those entering university in 2026/27 (gap year and post-military entrants included). Entrants pick one of five prompts set by LSE economics professors and write up to 1,500 words, with a deadline of 1 September 2026 and results in November. A good one to set for