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Every year at UCL, the First Year Challenge (FYC) yields a vibrant range of creative submissions by first year economics students, and the 2018 competition was no different (you can find all the shortlisted videos here). This competition involves groups of students who are assigned a key location in central London. Their task: create a […]

The CORE Project is launching the Doing Economics Data Competition 2019. The competition is open to any student enrolled in any undergraduate degree program in any country. We present students with the following challenge: Using the data in CORE’s Doing Economics, produce a short report that identifies a specific policy problem related to one of […]

CORE’s efforts to engage secondary school students include the organisation of a worldwide video competition, in partnership with the Financial Times Secondary Schools. We are challenging students in schools across the world to create an accessible and entertaining three minute video on an economic topic (find out more at: https://tinyco.re/3956838 and https://tinyco.re/4074533). We’re looking for a […]

Since 2016 we have been asking economics teachers who are using CORE in instruction around the world to run a simple word clouds exercise. They pose the following question to students on the first day of their introductory classes: ‘What is the most pressing problem economists today should be addressing?’, with the results summarised in […]