The Course - King Solomon High School

The CourseEconomics is subject which fundamentally examines how scarceresources are allocated in various economic contexts. As a socialscience, we study how the behaviour of various economicagents(consumers, firms and government) answers the followingquestions;What to produceHow to produceFor whom to produce forWe have adopted the Edexcel syllabus for assessment purposes.Students will, in the summer term, write 3 units in their AS year, andanother 3 in their A2 year in order to attain the A-level qualification.The units are varied and include;Unit 1: Markets: how they workUnit 2: Markets: how they failUnit 3: Managing the EconomyUnit 4: Industrial EconomicsUnit 5: Economic DevelopmentUnit 6: The UK in the global economyWho teaches the course?This course is currently taught by Mr. S. Ngwenya.As a new course(introduced in 2007-8), the first intake will be writingtheir first set of exams in summer 2008.ECONOMICS