Clik here to view.
Making the CORE beta for September 2015
As the teaching term winds down at UCL, Sciences Po, and the other economics departments that have piloted the first draft of the CORE introductory course, our efforts have turned to creating a new...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The September 2015 beta is here
It’s not just our web site that’s been given a complete redesign. For September 2015 we have rewritten and redesigned the first 10 units of our ebook, based on feedback from academics, teachers and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Making it easier to adopt CORE
For lecturers who want to introduce CORE, our goal is simple: to make it as easy as possible for you to do so. Parama Chaudhury (right), a Teaching Fellow at University College London, taught CORE at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CORE’s progress in 2015
As we begin our work in 2016, we wanted to briefly look back on we have managed to do in the past 12 months. We are very grateful for the funding for CORE provided by INET, Friends Provident...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CORE in action: UCL students, one year on
We asked three UCL students who, in September 2014, were part of the first cohort to use CORE (one studies Economics, one takes Philosophy and Economics and one studies European Social and Political...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CORE in action: Students at Lahore University of Management Sciences
We spoke to Haleema and Ayesha, two students at the Lahore University of Management Sciences who learnt CORE as part of their syllabus this year, how they found the syllabus, and what would they...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Introducing Economy, Society, and Public Policy: A new ebook by The CORE Team
Today we are launching beta versions of the first five units of a new ebook called Economy, Society, and Public Policy. Wendy Carlin, CORE course director, says that this “is for all of those people,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Helping teaching assistants switch to CORE
On 4 June Gonzalo Paz Pardo, one of our Postgraduate Teaching Assistants, was one of of only 12 people (and the only teaching assistant) to win a Provost’s Education Award for his work at UCL. The UCL...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Economy, Society, and Public Policy third release, and innovation in Bristol
Today (13 August 2018) we are releasing the final three units of both Economy, Society, and Public Policy (ESPP), our course materials for non-specialists, and the companion data projects, Doing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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....
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View Article