CM My name is Chris Mason, and I’ve been teaching economics (and other business-related courses) for the last 15 years after a brief time working in investment management. I’ve found that my previous career has really helped me bring my own experience of working in the finance industry to my students. It has also been useful this year too, as I’ve taught the CISI Level 2 Award in Fundamentals of Financial Services for the first time.
CM The desire to study economics at university probably came from my exposure to it at sixth form. I was lucky to study in a state school sixth form that offered business and economics, and after my success in business at GCSE with the same teacher, I decided to continue to study the subject further at A-level. The combined course meant that I had a blend of topics, but it must have been the economics that really grabbed me and made me apply to study this subject at university. I was always curious about the world around me in terms of politics, having grown up in a farming family, so to be able to better understand why we respond in certain ways to economic stimuli is not something that’s ever gone away.
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