THE BUSINESS Education Series provides second-level students with an insight into key business issues, and is published every Friday in the Business This Week supplement. The entire series can be viewed on www.irishtimes.com/business/education/.

It is intended to complement a series of 12 visual case studies available on the Ernst Young Entrepreneur of the Year programme’s new online business education channel, www.eoy.tv. Teacher support notes are also available here. Students can watch the clips at home in their own time or in the classroom with their teacher.

The case studies have been developed in collaboration with the Business Studies Teachers’ Association. Each case study is directly related to the Leaving Certificate business course, and links to the curriculum are outlined here each week.