Students will learn about the global financial crisis in a new economics A-level to be taught from September. The course, from Pearson's Edexcel exam board, will cover factors leading up to the ...

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In 2012, U.S. 12th graders who had come of age in the shadow of the 2008 housing bubble and subsequent market crash showed no better understanding of the economic forces that shaped that recession ...

The course, from Pearson's Edexcel exam board, will cover factors leading up to the banking crash of 2007-08. It will also ask pupils to compare the crash and the way governments handled it, with the ...