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 21 March 2018

African aims for a Free Trade Zone

Great news from the continent of Africa. The 1.2 billion people who live there (with the exception of Nigeria who have withdrawn at the last moment) plan to create a Free Trade Zone similar to the EU Single Market. The economic impact and benefits to the diverse and varying countries could signal a shift towards raising the standard of living.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-43458294

 

Wednesday 14 March 2018

Future Transport

http://www.iflscience.com/technology/could-these-gyroscopic-vehicles-be-the-public-transport-of-the-future/

 

Remember the straddling bus from China? Well this may be the next generation of traffic congestion solving transport… and these designs are equally as innovative and impressive, but also perhaps more realistic.

 

Friday 9 March 2018

Minimum Wage

Wagamama and TGI Friday’s are to be fined after it was found they do not pay their employees the National Minimum Wage:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43332875

 

Think of the implications and consequences for this… bad PR may affect sales.

 

Tuesday 6 March 2018

Lego have made too many bricks!

Lego profits down for the first time in 13 years due to having an excess amount of stock.

 

Basically they have overproduced too many Lego bricks and have had to reduce their prices to clear their stock.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43298897

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