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Preparing for Borlase
Preparing for Borlase
It is important that all students are confident that they can make an effective, purposeful start to their A level courses in September 2026. All departments have been asked to outline preparatory work that students should complete over the summer.
Preparatory work
Preparatory work
Buy the textbook, visit the Edexcel website and look at the syllabus: https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-a-levels/economics-a-2015.html
Get informed! Wider reading, listening and viewing recommendations:
Newspapers/Magazines: Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Economist
TV, Radio, podcasts: Newsnight, Economics 101, Pop-Up Economics, Economics with Subtitles, More or Less, The Bottom Line, Business Weekly
https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=Economics%20101&suggid=urn%3Abbc%3Aprogrammes%3Ab0bbtbcs
TED Talks
Summer projects:
Get into the habit of, or continue to, following the business news
Newspapers
Radio & TV reports
Websites
Podcasts
Then, if you’re convinced that you’d like to pursue A Level Economics, hand in a sheet of paper which investigates ONE of the following questions:
“A Young Economist’s Investigation into …(choose one from list below)” - approx 2 pages
Money - notes, coins, its history, banking, functions of money, currency over the ages, new currency, payments today, forgery, crime!, etc.
Taxes - UK taxes today, in the past, other countries, different types of tax, what is taxed, who is taxed, how it’s collected, how much does the UK collect, avoidance v evasion, devise your own tax regime!
Unemployment - Definitions and current UK data, reasons for, what an unemployed individual could do, what a government could do, what businesses could do.
Wages - Why do Premier league footballers, lawyers, doctors, etc earn more than lorry drivers, postal workers, teachers! How might the wages of these professions change in the future? What might cause these changes? What do you want to be when you grow up?!
The Art of Haggling - What is it, where do we commonly see it in use today, why don’t we haggle at Tesco, how to haggle as a buyer, as a seller, what to say, not to say - the Dos & Don’ts. What’s a ‘buyers’ market’, a ‘sellers’ market’?
Resources to obtain
Resources to obtain
Textbook: Edexcel A Level Economics. Peter Smith ISBN 978-1510449596
Recommended reading lists for A Level Economists:
https://www.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/recommended-reading-for-alevel-economists
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