Hello everyone! A good number of you are probably aware of this at this point, but I’m very happy to announce the launch of Sepupunomics!

Sepupunomics is a sister company in the Ascendant Academy Group, and it is a blog and resource dedicated towards IGCSE, A-Levels, and IB Economics!

It’s a completely different subject, but it aligns perfectly with my background, which was in economics before I began to administrate, run, and teach through EnglishFirstLanguage.net!

I tend to write and to express myself a lot more in Sepupunomics just because beyond language, which is a clear and present fascination of mine, it concerns matters that are of real world interest to me and it also allows me to talk about a very large different range of topics.

Even if you’ve never considered studying economics before, or you don’t know if it’s right for you, you’ve ever wondered about how I process, understand, contemplate and articulate myself on a whole range of different issues (may also later develop a resource on articulation), you may be interested to check it out – I assure you that it will be worth your time!

Thank you for reading, and I look forward to coming back to you with some fascinating content in the days ahead!

Victor Tan.

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