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Doing economics and the climate emergency
If you read the blog we published yesterday, you might have noticed that three of the four winners of the student Doing Economics Data Competition 2019 took on the same subject: the climate emergency....
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Launching today: Economy, Society and Public Policy version 1.0
Today we can unveil the 1.0 version of Economy, Society and Public Policy (ESPP), designed to introduce the power and excitement of economics to a wider audience – whether they are non-specialists...
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CORE in action: a focus on data at Birkbeck
CORE was developed to teach economics from a new perspective, so that students can better deal with the economic events of recent decades. A typical student studying CORE is young and studies...
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The merits of multiple choice
Feedback on the multiple choice questions (MCQs) we have produced as part of the CORE material has consistently been positive. But why do students – and lecturers – like them so much? Do they actually...
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From UCL: Results are in!
Professor Antonio Cabrales and Dr Christian Spielmann report preliminary second-year results from University College London – the first cohort to have taken the CORE syllabus. “But, will students who...
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Escaping from imaginary worlds
“We, economics students of the world, declare ourselves to be generally dissatisfied with the teaching that we receive… We wish to escape from imaginary worlds!” So began the open letter from 1,000...
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Crowdsourcing a better textbook
In early 2017, after one of his Introduction to Economics lectures at the University of Manchester, Mihai Codreanu overheard one of his fellow students asking about comparative advantage. Afterwards,...
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Helping teaching assistants switch to CORE
On 4 June Gonzalo Paz Pardo, one of our Postgraduate Teaching Assistants, was one of only 12 people (and the only teaching assistant) to win a Provost’s Education Award for his work at UCL. The UCL...
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