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Highlights from our 2020 symposium at the Bank of England – what we have achieved so far.

The 1.0 edition of CORE’s Doing Economics was released in January 2020 – find out what has been revised and expanded, as part of our continuing commitment to helping students develop the data-handling skills that will be important both to their job prospects and for society.

A team of talented students and project managers from Sciences Po, led by Yann Algan, working with the Académie de Versailles and a team of high school teachers adapted CORE’s resources to high school and developed radically new ways of teaching economics.

Why is addressing climate change so difficult? That’s the question we posed in the 2019 Schools Economics Challenge, in which we partnered with the Financial Times for Schools. Teams were challenged to create an accessible and entertaining short video, making use of The Economy…

“I told them it would be experimental,” says Carlos Cortinhas, who introduced the first beta units of Economy, Society and Public Policy (ESPP) to his students at the University of Exeter in 2018, “I explained to them that’s what economics is about. We try…

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 taking a course in economics, in the workplace, or learning for themselves….

We asked Andy Haldane why he believes that what he calls the “tsunami of data” offers a huge opportunity for all citizens, and how CORE’s material can help develop these skills for economists and non-economists alike.

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. That wasn’t a fluke, because the majority of the entries…

On 18 February this year, we issued the challenge to undergraduate students around the world, in any discipline, to use our Doing Economics empirical projects to produce a report “that identifies a specific policy problem related to one of the following topics: climate change,…