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Preliminary second-year results from University College London (for the first cohort to have taken the CORE syllabus) “indicate that our students are very well prepared for their intermediate studies in micro and macroeconomics”.
Many of you will have downloaded the CORE Leibniz supplements created by Malcolm Pemberton and Nicholas Rau, authors of Mathematics for Economists: An Introductory Textbook. Now, thanks to Manchester University Press, CORE readers can purchase the 4th edition (published in 2016, right) at a special…
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 help students learn better, and teachers assess their students?…
We asked Professor Simon DeDeo, who runs the Laboratory for Social Minds at Indiana University, to tell us more what we can learn from Richard Feynman (right), whose introductory physics course, first given between 1961 and 1963, tore up the old physics textbooks and…
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 undergraduate economics full-time. But what is our course like for students who don’t fit…
Open access is a principle of CORE: our ebook is free of charge to students. Unlike traditional introductory economics textbooks, some of which might cost close to $300, or even over $200 just to rent.
What do new economics undergraduates care about? Many of the same things as Angus Deaton, the 2015 Nobel laureate in Economics, it seems. Last week the ECON1001 freshers at UCL were asked “What is it that economists study, or should study?”. You can see their…
A British trader, Navinder Singh Sarao (right), faces extradition to the US to answer 22 criminal counts, including fraud and market manipulation. The US Department of Justice claims he significantly contributed to the “flash crash” that occurred on 6 May 2010, in which the…
Last month the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, launched the first CORE course to be taught in Africa. We asked Reza Daniels (RD), a senior lecturer in the School of Economics at UCT, about how his students (above) were reacting to the…
