Head's Newsletter 15 December 2017

allowing a significant proportion of the Year 12 Economics cohort to attend this prestigious early evening talk at the Royal Institution on Wednesday 22 nd November. This year’s lecture was delivered by Stephen Machin, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and addressed the question, “Why commit crime? The Economic Incentives of Criminal Behaviour”. In his lecture, Professor Machin elegantly showed how microeconomic theory, understandable by A Level students, could be applied to give insights into the motivation behind criminal behaviour, patterns of crime and the economics of policing. Particularly relevant this year was Professor Machin’s use of London wide data sets provided by the Metropolitan Police which he used to support or refute economic hypotheses.

We are very grateful to Zac Goldsmith for giving up his time and coming in to speak with sixth formers and other boys last Friday, 8 December. He was invited in by Nathan Langford, Head Boy (above left), and Adam Fereday, Deputy Head Boy (above right). Mr Goldsmith spoke for about 10 minutes and then took questions from the boys for the rest of the lunch break.

On Friday 1 st December, 30 Year 10 students went on a brilliant trip to the Apollo theatre in Victoria to see GCSE Science! Live. It was a day of interesting and highly engaging lectures from prominent scientists in their field. Lectures were delivered from the likes of Lord Professor Robert Winston, who gave a talk on genetics, embryology and in-vitro fertilization. Professor Jim Al-Khalili discussed the possibility of time travel and wormholes and Professor Helen Czerski talked about the application of physics in

Tiffin exploited an early first mover advantage in July and was duly given a full school allocation of tickets for the 2017 Royal Economic Society Public Lecture. These fifteen tickets were snapped up by Year 12 Economists and we were fortunate to be allocated a further ten tickets so