GCSE Business - Resource reviews
The list below is a summary for teachers of Business Studies GCSE book reviews and reviews of on-line material and CD roms which have been published in the EBEA magazine, Teaching Business and Economics since the year 2000. Follow the link to the relevant magazine to read the review.
| Fortune & Venture Educational Game, free for the first year, annual subscription after that £150, www.fortuneadventure.com | Spring 2011 p 32 |
| Edexcel Business for GCSE: Introduction to Economic Understanding Ian Marcousé, Jonathan Brook, Josephine Farmer, Hodder Education, 2010 153 pages, £14.99, ISBN 978 1444 10793 7 |
Spring 2011 p 32 |
| Edexcel GCSE Business Controlled Assessment Workbook, Andrew Ashwin, Edexcel/Pearson, 2010, 80 pages, £3.99, ISBN 978 1 846906 92 3 |
p 31 |
| KS4 Business Studies, software, £599, Boardworks Ltd, 2009. Order from www.boardworks.co.uk. | Autumn 2010 p 25 |
| Arsenal Business Case Studies, Paul Kitchen, Jon Pettigrew and Guy Portman, £10 per case book + £10 for Teacher Guide. Order from https://eshop.londonmet.ac.uk/ |
Summer 2010 p 30 |
| GCSE Business Studies, The Revision Guide, CGP, 2009, 100 pages, £4.50, ISBN 9781847623140 GCSE Business Studies, The Workbook (with answer book), CGP, 2009, 84 pages, £4.50, ISBN 978 1847623157 |
Summer 2010 p 29 |
| Edexcel Business for GCSE – Introduction to Small Business, Ian Marcousé, Hodder Education, second edition, £12.99, ISBN 978-0-340-98346-1 | Summer 2010 p 28 |
| Edexcel GCSE Business: Building a Business, Student Book, Alain Anderton and Andrew Malcolm | Spring 2010 p28 |
| OCR Business Studies for GCSE, Peter Kennerdell, Alan Williams and Mike Schofield,Hodder Education, second edition, 288 pages, £16.99, ISBN 978-0-340-98349-2 | Spring 2010 p 29 |
| Introduction to Economic Understanding, Keith Hirst and Jonathan Shields 2009, £14.99, ISBN 978-1-84690-499-8 | Autumn 2009 p 38 |
| Edexcel GCSE Business: Introduction to Small Business, Alain Anderton and Ian Gunn, Pearson Education, 2009, £14.99, ISBN 978-1-84690-496-7 | Autumn 2009 p 38 |
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Fortune and Venture, Fortune & Venture Ltd. £49.99. Available from 5 Saunders Crescent, Pocklington, East Yorkshire.Y042 2GU. More details from www.fortuneadventure.com |
Summer 2009 |
| Sim Venture, Venture Simulations Ltd, a “business start up” computer game. Site licence £750. A trial version is available to download from www.simventure.co.uk. |
Summer 2009 |
| KS4 Business Studies, price £599 for a site licence, Boardworks. A sample CD is available from www.boardworks.co.uk |
Spring 2009 p 30 |
| GCSE Business and Communication Systems for AQA, Jonathan Sutherland and Diane Canwell, £16.99, Folens, ISBN 978-1-85008-244-6 |
Spring 2009 p 30 |
| GCSE Business Studies for AQA ‘A’, Jonathan Sutherland and Diane Canwell, £16.99, Folens, ISBN 978-1-85008-246- | Spring 2009 p 30 |
The UK Economy 1997–2007, Ian Black, £7.95, Anforme, ISBN 978-1-905504-16-9 |
Autumn 2008 p 32 |
| The Times 100, free of charge, accessible at www.times100.co.uk eBusiness Course Companion, price £350 for a site licence, eHarris Learning | Summer 2008 p 32 |
| Business and Management, Paul Hoang, 750 pages, £35, IBID Press, ISBN 1-876659-63-7 | Summer 2008 p 32 |
| Business Case Studies – Applied GCSE Business, Margaret Hancock and John Evans-Pritchard, 178 pages, spiral bound, £90, Causeway Press, ISBN 978-1-4058-6448-0 | Summer 2008 p 32 |
| GCSE Business Studies PowerPoint Resource Packs, easilyinteractive.com, set of seven resources, prices between £50 and £110 for individual packs, £545 for the full suite | Autumn 2007 p 31 |
| GCSE Business Studies – AQA, Alain Anderton with Rob Jones, third edition, Causeway Press, £20.34 textbook, £75 teacher book, ISBN 978 1 4058 6450 3 (textbook), ISBN 978 1 4058 6751 1 teacher book) | Autumn 2007 p 31 |
| GCSE Business Studies, Active Teach CD, Alain Anderton with Rob Jones, third edition, Causeway Press, ISBN 978 1 4058 7661 2 | Autumn 2007 p 31 |
| GCSE Business Studies – OCR, Alain Anderton with Rob Jones, third edition, Causeway Press, textbook and teacher’s guide, ISBN 978 1 4058 6451 0 (textbook), ISBN 978 1 4058 6754 2 teacher’s guide) | Autumn 2007 p 31 |
| Business Interactive, CD for Applied and Traditional GCSE, from Interactive Learning, nine modules forApplied or Traditional GCSE Business.One module £75-150 + VAT, four units £295 each + VAT, the complete package £1,150 + VAT. | Summer 2007 p 33 |
| Edexcel GCSE Business Unit 1: Introduction to Small Business, Ian Marcousé, Hodder Arnold,£12.99, ISBN 034092697 | Spring 2007 p 31 |
| Made of Money, Bank of England. Free resource.Order details and further information on www.bankofengland.co.uk/education/madeofmoney/index.htm | Spring 2007 p 31 |
| GCSE Business Studies – Edexcel, Alain Anderton with Rob Jones, third edition, Causeway Press | Spring 2008 p 34 |
| Business, Economics and Enterprise, Peter Davies and Jacek Brant, Routledge(www.routledge.co.uk), 2006,241 pages, hardback, £65,ISBN 0-415-36357-8, paperback,£18.99, ISBN 0-415-34432 | Spring 2006 p 34 |
| Open for Business, Orange Education, free internet resource | Autumn 2006 p 28 |
| Understanding Brands, Peter Cheverton, Kogan Page, 139 pages, £8.99, ISBN 0-7494-4665-X | Autumn 2006 p 28 |
| Teaching Business Education 14–19, Martin Jephcote and Ian Abbott, eds, David Fulton Publishers, 2005, 236 pages, paperback,£20 (£16 to EBEA members orderingthrough office@ebea.org.uk),ISBN 1-84312-254-5 |
Spring 2006 p 34 |
| GCSE Business Studies:The Essentials, Neil Denby and Peter Thomas, Hodder Arnold, June 2005,paperback, 153 pages, £12.99,ISBN: 0 340 88784 2 |
Spring 2006 p 34 |
| OCR National Level 2 Business, Karen Hough, Jackie Tye and Nick Colburn, Heinemann, 346 pages, ISBN 0-35-40122-X | Spring 2006 p 34 |
| Business and Administration S/NVQ Level 2, Carol Carysforth, Oxford: Heinemann, £18.99, March 2006, ISBN 9780435463335 | Autumn 2006 p 28 |
