A-Level Geography

[hotdiggedy]

Hello, can anyone advice of the best places to do deeper reading for Geography this year? Any magazines for example likely to contain good articles? Many thanks.

[7SunshineSeven7]

National Geographic.
Geographical. (A lot will have the country involved e.g Australian Geographic).
OnEarth.

[hotdiggedy]

thank you very much.

[homebythesea]

Student membership of the Royal Geograohical Siciety is about £40 and gives access to online resources and more importantly webcasts of lectures (and cheap tickets to them if you can be bothered to go!) It's also something you can put on the UCAS form!!

[happygardening]

Geography is a very broad subject, most geography students (not those doing physical geography) will be strongly encouraged to read The Economist it's not as dry as you might think and you can subscribe fairly cheaply. Lots about Brexit, prediction of what Trump is going to do, Secondly read regularly reputable relatively unbiased news website e.g. The BBC and relate it to whats being studied, e.g. migration, Brexit, the endless struggles with war famine and poverty in Sub Saharan Africa, climate change. Look on the EU website, NFU, the FAO the WHO the UN all will have current up to date stuff related to geography.

[mummytime]

If your child is doing the same syllabus as mine then some articles in New Scientist would be very relevant. So is just reading widely from good Newspapers.
Good family debates are also useful e.g. What factors led to the Ebola crisis? Why has Haitia been so devastated but not the Dominican Republic? Or even Japan's response to that sink hole a month ago.

[happygardening]

Also look at the ONS website people talk alot of shit without actually looking at the statistics. HS2 the pros and cons and the CIA world fact book is IMO absolutely fascinating and an absolute must look at for any aspiring human geographer but hopefully your DC's school has already told them this.

[TalkinPeace]

New Scientist and the Economist

and I will strongly second the comment that the Economist is much less dry than it looks.
They are spectacularly rude about many politicians and business people in ways that would get the tabloids in a froth if their journos could read

[Unescorted]

Depends on what type of geography.
There is a lot of really good reports (and data sets)on the gov.uk website - go to the non departmental organisation that delivers eg Environment Agency, ONS, HCA, NICE, FC or the sponsor department MoD, DEFRA, FO, DCLG, DoT, DoH, DWP and look at the publictions.

Also the think tanks and campagining organisations - Rowntree, Crisis, Shelter, Greenpeace, WWF, NUF, Land Owners Association, CPRE, National Parks.

Read all of these sources with the knowledge that they are arguing from a point of view.

[hotdiggedy]

Thank you everyone, lots of good ideas there. I was looking at the Royal geographical society membership and wondering if we should sign up for it (son seems to think it wouldn't be that useful?!?) but I thought it looked really relevant.

Its the new Edexcel syllabus for A levels by the way.

[homebythesea]

hotdiggety my DS was applying to do geog at Uni and his teacher encouraged him to sign up to RGS. Not sure how much use he made if online resources but it was mentioned in the UCAS form 😀