This week, a number of Economics students had the opportunity to enrich their understanding beyond the A-level specification by attending a virtual lecture day hosted by The Training Partnership.
Two lectures stood out in the students’ imaginations. The first, by Stephen King, a Senior Economic Adviser at HSBC, considered the question ‘What happens when the money runs out?’
Natsuki Osaka an Upper Sixth student in Raven, explained that Mr King’s lecture, “opened with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and went on to consider whether the future will involve breaking down walls or building them up. His analysis of recent rapid shifts in globalisation, and resulting inequality, was highly relevant to those, like me, on the second year of the A-level course.”
This was followed by a lecture given by Tim Hartford, author of The Undercover Economist.
Mr Hartford discussed the important use of statistics and how, often, they can be misused and misleading. Ellie Jordan, a Lower Sixth student in Murrell, said that this lecture was “an eye-opener to the growing world of statistics and how we can continue to receive reliable information while trying to understand the world.”
These lectures will form the basis of future discussions for the Lower Sixth Economics Society into next term.
