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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 Education Awards “recognise the work … that has enabled…
The CORE Project, with the help of our partners FT Secondary Schools, is launching the CORE Schools Economics Challenge 2018. We are challenging students in schools across the world to create an accessible and entertaining short video on an economic topic. This year’s theme is:…
Act one For about two years now, since we launched our new undergraduate program in economics at the Universidad de los Andes, we have been doing a very interesting exercise with the students on their first day of classes. We ask them to write…
If you attend our CORE teaching workshop on 8 May, you’ll be sitting next to a team from The University of Warwick (one of its more striking buildings, above), ranked in the world’s top 30 in the QS world university rankings. It is planning…
As well as helping us to create ESPP (you can hear him in our podcast), Michael Muthukrishna (left) is an assistant professor of economic psychology at the London School of Economics, a research associate in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, and technical…
If you’re taking a look at the first five units of ESPP, you may have noticed a section in the contents for each unit called Doing Economics. Doing Economics is an exciting new project for CORE. When completed, there will be one for each…
Yesterday we launched our new project: Economy, Society, and Public Policy (ESPP). But CORE has published an economics textbook already. So who is ESPP designed to help? The short answer is: anyone who wants to learn about the economy, society and public policy for whom…
If you would like to know more about why The CORE Team created ESPP and Doing Economics, and how we think it might be used, listen to this podcast (9 mins) featuring Wendy Carlin of CORE and UCL, Michael Muthukrishna of the London School of…
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, he sat down with his colleague to work through the examples in The Economy in…
