News - Stock Market Challenge

10th November 2011

Pupils storm the trading pit to invest in their future

Stock Market Challenge will be testing Scottish pupils’ problem solving and trading skills this November. Third year pupils work in small teams to trade in shares and foreign currency. Each team will start with £15,000 in ‘virtual’... Read more

17th October 2011

Scottish students encouraged to 're:think' their future careers

To coincide with the launch of Scotland's 2011-12 inter-school Stock Maket Challenges, a dynamic new website that aims to help Scotland improve and retain its wealth of financial talent was unveiled by the Minister for Learning and Skills. Launching... Read more

17th October 2011

Improve your students' maths skills

We’re developing a new maths workshop for 2012 based around the Dealing Room game. The Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education recently made some recommendations to the National Curriculum Review regarding teaching at secondary schools: greater... Read more

From the archive:

Castlebrook High School wins Play The Markets competition at BETT, 16th February 2011
Students play Stock Market Challenge during My Money Week, 21st July 2010
Morpeth School students review the Dealing Room Game, 21st July 2010
Local students take Stock Market Challenge to The Square Mile, 13th May 2010
Innovative Enterprise brings Stock Market Challenge to schools, 30th April 2010
St. Edward's School rings the trading bell to mark the launch of the new website., 23rd March 2010

Testimonial videos:

Jamie Watson, Maths Teacher
Bannerman High School

Peter Sunley, Head of Economics & Business Studies
Queen Mary's Grammar School

Mark Quayle, Head of Business
The Manchester College

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“A motivational and learning tool for the business and enterprise teacher that will knock the students' socks off! There is simply nothing better on the market."

Colin Kilpatrick, Head of Business Studies, St. Edward's Secondary School, Poole

"Stock Market Challenge introduces our pupils to the excitement of numbers, and the importance of the decimal point! Also, to a world of which they have little knowledge, but which is having a major effect on their lives."

Sarah Hodnett, Lead Academic Tutor, Maths, John Madejski Academy, Reading

“I went to the Stock Market Challenge hoping to learn about investments and the pressurized atmosphere of the stock exchange. I ended up having one of the best evenings since I've been at university. It was a frantic and testing event, but it was absolutely thrilling!”

Munro Stewart, Student, University of Dundee

"From entry level through to Masters programmes it gives students an understanding of the financial markets and creates an opportunity for them to test their skills and see how they work under pressure. It gives a reality which develops all sorts of entrepreneurial skills."

Lesley Hyder, Principal Lecturer, Southampton Business School