“The Stock Market Challenge project has been a brilliant success for all our students. One of our main objectives is to foster links with professional bodies and industry and this is a great way of bringing these elements together.” Dr. Lisa Bradley... Read more
Christine Peberdy, Business Education
Hillpark Secondary
Margaret Houston, Team Leader
Skills Development Scotland
Bob Walker, Business Education
Craigmount High School
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“The Global Investor simulations give an exciting edge to Maths, developing a greater interest among pupils in its potential.”
Tristan Kelso, Maths Teacher, Royal School Armagh
Finance Lab is an excellent exposition of the practical realities of equity market trading. Specifically it is useful in explaning the information asymmetries around how prices are formed in the equity markets as well as showing how important news items can 'move the market’.
Dr Barry Quinn, Lecturer in Finance & Programme Director MSc Computational Finance and Trading, Queen's University Belfast
"A very useful tool especially for lessons on finance, the stock market and PLCs. Pupils really enjoyed the experience and even asked to stay beyond the end of period to continue trading!"
Clare Campbell, Business Education Teacher, Ayr Academy, South Ayrshire
"In the Dealing Room simulation our students used their reasoning, logic and mathematical skills to buy and sell shares. They made links between the demand, the supply and the price of a share. This activity enabled students to use their mathematical skills in a real life situation. It was excellent.”
Maria Gretchen Garcia, Maths Teacher, Morpeth School
