Mr Marcus McGowan MSc PgDip BA (Hons)

This Business Education Learning Blog is aimed primarily at Higher Business Management students/teachers and ICT students/teachers.

The aim of this blog is to provide you with interesting articles, news, trivia as well as resources or links to materials which will help in your course of study.

I am a Teacher of Business Education and I have written for Education Scotland and BBC Bitesize.

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Wednesday 28 August 2013

TV Chef slams British youth

Not a good career move by Jamie Oliver here I think!

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23860811

 

Bit of a generalisation saying that young people in Britain are lazy. Plus these young people may end up being his core audience on TV in a few years, so as well as disagreeing with his sentiments I also think it is a rather silly thing for basically a TV performer to be saying.

 

Rupee falls to record low

Worrying news from India

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23860458

 

Thursday 22 August 2013

Tata Nano in line for overhaul

Tata are now having to rebrand and reposition the Tata Nano – the world’s cheapest car:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23792196

 

Tuesday 13 August 2013

The successful inventor who didn't make a penny

Another great article about an inventor with a simple but revolutionary idea that changed the world. Yet he is still poor.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23536914

 

Fixed versus Growth mindset

Pertinent to read this article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23667965

 

especially after today we watched an excellent presentation by John Franklin, our PT Support for Learning who illustrated the difference in mindset between fixed and growth. Added to a pupil receiving poor exam results it could certainly crush a young person or knock the stuffing out of them for a while.

 

I like to think of the sporting analogy. Yes Tiger Woods may be an excellent talent with superb eye hand coordination but he still practiced well over the 10,000 hours which is now accepted as the norm in order to become an Elite Performer.

 

The old adage is true: practise does make perfect.

 

So if any pupil or student has not done as well as they hoped this year, please don’t give up. You may just need to keep trying and I am sure it will happen for you.

 

In life there are very, very few overnight successes. So keep your spirits up.

Monday 12 August 2013

What is inflation?

Often mentioned in Business class, here is Inflation explained from the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12196322

 

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