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Click here to see the Economics and Business Educators 2020 Events Calendar (as at 5 December 2020).
To apply to become a new member of EBE NSW, please visit the EBE NSW Membership Portal here.
Click here for the "Benefits of EBE NSW Membership" flyer.
The order form for the 2020 EBE NSW Trial HSC Business Studies, Economics and Legal Studies examination papers is now available. Relevant past papers are also available for purchase. The examination papers have been designed by EBE NSW Directors and include marking guidelines. Special discount prices apply to members of EBE NSW.
>> Order form for 2020 EBE NSW Trial HSC examination papers
The 2020 EBE NSW Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Monday 14th December 2020 at 5.30pm at Croydon Park Club (55 Seymour Street, Croydon Park, NSW). All members of EBE NSW are welcome and eligible to attend.
Please click below for the documents relating to the 2020 EBE AGM.
Letter Notice of EBE NSW Annual General Meeting, 14 Dec 2020 5.30pm
Election of Office Bearers and other Directors - 2020 EBE NSW AGM
Nomination Form and Form for Voting by Proxy at 2020 EBE NSW AGM
The recording of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) student webinar, "Monetary Policy and Current Economic Conditions" (12 October 2020) is now available. Senior Economist, David Lancaster, provides an overview of monetary policy and current economic conditions as at 12 October 2020.
Click here for the recording:
Economics and Business Educators NSW is a member of the Reserve Bank of Australia Educators Advisory Panel:
https://www.rba.gov.au/education/about-the-program/educators-advisory-panel.html
Feedback about resources from the RBA is welcome.
Please email feedback to admin@ebe.nsw.edu.au
The recording of the webinar titled "The Reserve Bank's Policy Actions and Balance Sheet" with Guy Debelle, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, held on 30 June 2020 ( to which Economics teachers and students were invited) is now available on the RBA website. The webinar can be found here:
>> https://rba.gov.au/speeches/2020/sp-dg-2020-06-30.html
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released the May, 2020 Labour Force Statistics:
>> https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/6202.0?opendocument&ref=HPKI
These data provide an opportunity for rich classroom discussions about labour market concepts and current conditions. To support such engagement, the Reserve Bank (RBA) has developed a number of resources that may be incorporated into lesson plans. Please see below.
Video Explainer: The Labour Market and Unemployment
The RBA has brought to life it’s popular Explainers series with a video presented by Economist Gigi Lovicu. Gigi talks students through the groups in the labour market and types of unemployment, relating this to the current conditions in Australia.
Explainer: Unemployment: Its Measurement and Types
This Explainer outlines how the unemployment rate is measured and describes the main types of unemployment.
Video: Recent Developments in the Labour Market
In this video recording of a recent RBA teacher professional development webinar, Head of Prices, Wages and Labour, Natasha Cassidy, discusses the effect of COVID-19 on the Australian labour market as at 25 May 2020.
Dates: To be announced
Academy Travel, in conjunction with Economics and Business Educators NSW, is delighted to present an outstanding professional development opportunity for teachers of Economics, Business Studies, Legal Studies and Commerce.
The itinerary begins in Washington DC, where teachers will tour key government organisations and significant landmarks. Continuing to New York City, participants will explore the Financial District, international law and order, and the world of commerce.
In addition, the itinerary includes a series of guided tours and site visits with experts. There is also time at leisure for sightseeing, shopping and exploring.
>> Further details, including a detailed itinerary
The Business Educators Australasia Plan Your Own Enterprise Competition (PYOE) encourages secondary school students to apply their business education to a real life scenario. Working individually or in small groups, participants are asked to devise a creative enterprise idea and submit a business plan, explaining how their great idea could become a profitable business.
For teachers, the competition is a valuable tool to enhance the business education curriculum and support them as they develop the next generation of business leaders. For students, it helps to build valuable work and life skills. The competition requires business insight, practical financial skills and a creative flair for problem solving.
Economics and Business Educators NSW runs the competition in NSW. To enter, students need to devise a creative enterprise idea and submit a 3000 word business plan, explaining how their great idea could become a profitable business. The competition has two divisions with fantastic prizes up for grabs:
NSW entries are due by Friday 4 September 2020. These will be marked, and finalists in both divisions will be invited to the NSW Awards Ceremony. At this awards ceremony, the winner in each division will be announced. The NSW Division One winner will receive an iPad mini 4 Wi-Fi 128GB (valued at $579). Certificates and other prizes will also be awarded.
National judging will occur after the winners in each state and territory have been determined. Winners will be advised by the end of 2020.
This competition can be incorporated into assessment tasks for both Commerce and Business Studies. Click here for a sample assessment task. Email EBE NSW if you would like a Microsoft Word version of the sample assessment task.
Amanda Ritter has developed a unit of work based on the PYOE Competition which can be accessed here. The PYOE Competition could form the content for a Commerce "school - developed option" (see pages 48 and 49 in the NSW Education Standards Authority Commerce Year 7 - 10 Syllabus).
All students who enter the competition will receive a Certificate of Participation for their job portfolios.
>> Full details are available in the 2020 PYOE competition brochure.
See the article available to EBE NSW members - “Student2Student: How to Overcome the Pitfalls of Business Planning" by Sarah Matthias (Division 1 Winner of CPA Australia Plan Your Own Enterprise Competition 2016) in “The EBE Journal – Journal of the Economics and Business Educators NSW” – Issue 2, 2016.
There is no cost to enter the competition.
Economics and Business Educators NSW (EBE NSW) recognised the NSW Plan Your Own Enterprise (PYOE) winners at the annual NSW awards ceremony on 19 September 2019 at Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand – Level 9, 33 Erskine Street, Sydney, NSW. At the ceremony, prizes and certificates were awarded to the NSW student winners and their schools. Parents were in attendance to celebrate the success of their child, as well as teachers. Congratulations to the following winners and their teachers from NSW:
Thank you to all the students who entered the competition this year and the teachers who inspired and encouraged their students to enter this prestigious competition. Each student who participated received a Certificate of Participation.
Thank you to the students, their families and teachers for attending the NSW Awards Ceremony.
Thank you to EBE NSW Director, Nicholas Ward, for taking on the role of PYOE NSW Coordinator in 2019 and for all his time and effort in ensuring the competition in NSW was a success.
2019 PYOE NSW Competition Finalists | |
Division One Student: Tae Woo Lyoo Student: Parvathi Sanjeev Student: Natali Pavlovic Student: Tom Irwin Student: Colina Zhang Student: Han Luc Student: Raquel Mezrani Student: Sereen Ali Student: Parivash Nadeem Student: Cerise Bootsma The prizes for the Division 1 NSW finalists were: 1st place - iPad Mini for the student and $200 Dymocks voucher for the school. |
Division Two Students: Ishwary Ramjeevan, Maddisen Strauss
and Mariam Yassin Students: Annabel Harvey, Samuel Johnston,
Jayden Kotevski and Zali Moore Students: Crystal Cheng and Shu-Han Lee Students: Hellen Wang and Ramona Zheng Students: Charlotte Drury, Hannah Foote,
Charlotte McCaffrey-Moors & Kate Rutledge The prizes for the Division 2 NSW finalists (1st, 2nd and 3rd) were: 1st Place - $150 cash per student and $200 Dymocks voucher for the school.
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Congratulations to all the winners. Be sure to incorporate the PYOE competition into your Commerce and/or Business Studies teaching and learning program in 2020.
From left to right: Nicholas Ward (2019 PYOE NSW Coordinator), Parivash Nadeem (NSW Division 1 PYOE Competition Winner) and Joe Alvaro (EBE NSW President)
From left to right: Roset Khair (Teacher of NSW Division 1 PYOE Competition Winner) , Parivash Nadeem (NSW Division 1 PYOE Competition Winner) and Joe Alvaro (President - Economics and Business Educators NSW) at the 2019 NSW PYOE Awards Ceremony
2019 NSW PYOE Competition Finalists with 2019 PYOE NSW Coordinator Nicholas Ward (far left) and EBE NSW President Joe Alvaro (far right) at the 2019 EBE NSW PYOE NSW Awards Ceremony
2019 EBE NSW PYOE NSW Awards Ceremony
PYOE Competition finalists speaking about their business plan at the 2019 EBE NSW PYOE NSW Awards Ceremony
Networking at the 2019 EBE NSW PYOE NSW Awards Ceremony
Networking at the 2019 EBE NSW PYOE NSW Awards Ceremony
PYOE Competition finalists speaking about their business plan at the 2019 EBE NSW PYOE NSW Awards Ceremony
2019 PYOE NSW Coordinator Nicholas Ward (left) and EBE NSW President Joe Alvaro (right) at the 2019 EBE NSW PYOE NSW Awards Ceremony
Congratulations to the following students who are the national winners of the 2019 Business Educators Australasia (BEA) Plan Your Own Enterprise (PYOE) Competition.
2019 BEA PYOE Competition National Division 1 Winner – Lily Fisher
2019 BEA PYOE Competition National Division 1 Winners - Ethan Medwin (left) Hugo Hemmings (right)
EBE NSW congratulates the 2019 PYOE national winners.
On 13 May 2018, the NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Minister for Education Rob Stokes announced that NESA (NSW Education Standards Authority) will undertake a review of the NSW curriculum to ensure it equips students to continue to contribute to Australian society into the 21st century. NESA has engaged Professor Geoff Masters, CEO of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to lead the review.
>> EBE NSW has made a submission to the Review. Read the submission here.EBE NSW has made a submission to the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) re the 2018 NESA Draft Commerce Syllabus.
>> Read the submission here.
The current Commerce syllabus was last revised in 2003. The NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) has released a draft Commerce syllabus.
>> The draft NESA Commerce syllabus can be found here
>> The “Commerce Years 7-10 draft syllabus summary of changes” can be found here
Have your say on the draft Commerce syllabus by completing a survey, attending a consultation meeting, and/or submitting a written response to the project manager. Consultation will be open from 23 July 2018 to 2 September 2018.
>> More information can be found here
Economics and Business Educators NSW will be making a submission about the draft Commerce syllabus and members are encouraged to contribute to the submission by sending their comments about the draft Commerce syllabus to admin@ebe.nsw.edu.au.
Some questions to consider:
EBE NSW made a submission to NESA when the review of the Commerce syllabus was
announced in 2017.
>> Read the submission here
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) also made a submission during this period – read their submission here.
In response to the draft Commerce syllabus, the RBA has made a “Supplementary submission to NESA Review of Commerce Years 7 – 10 Syllabus”.
>> This submission can be found here
The latest issue of The EBE Journal - Journal of the Economics and Business Educators NSW (Issue 2 — 2017) is now available in the members section of the website. EBE members must login to access the latest EBE Journal. Past issues of "The EBE Journal" are also in the members section.
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Back issues of the "The EBE Journal - Journal of the Economics and Business Educators NSW" are also available in the members section of this website and contain useful teaching and learning resources.