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Azim Premji University adopts CORE
This week The Times of India (ToI) carried an article claiming that “the way Indian students are introduced to economics needs a lot of improvement”. The person making the claim: Venu Narayan,...
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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...
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Arjun Jayadev: CORE takes off in Bangalore
Arjun Jayadev More than 300 paper planes lie in a gigantic pile in the corner of my classroom. They have been made over the last half an hour amidst a lot of hollering, hooting and cheering from...
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How Angus Deaton’s work has influenced CORE
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...
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The Economy: Download the glossary
Unit 19’s word cloud We have made available the full glossary of terms used in the current version of our ebook, The Economy, and you are welcome to download this by clicking the link below (it’s an...
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Test your CORE knowledge using Quizlet
Download our updated glossary (xlsm file) Learn our glossary using Quizlet (requires free Quizlet registration) The downloadable glossary for CORE’s course has proved very popular, and we have updated...
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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...
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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...
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CORE In Action: Economic Policy in Budapest
Anand Murugesan and Michael Dorsch teach at the School of Public Policy, a Central European University in Budapest. We asked them to tell us about their experience teaching the CORE syllabus to...
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CORE teachers: Simon DeDeo, Indiana University
Simon DeDeo runs the Laboratory for Social Minds at Indiana University, where he is a professor of complex systems and cognitive science. He is also on the external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute...
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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...
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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...
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Mathematics for Economists: 30% off the cover price
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...
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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...
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Putting CORE to work: UCL’s First Year Challenge
Parama Chaudhury and Christian Spielmann, both UCL, write about the First Year Challenge, which has been shortlisted in the “Outstanding Digital Innovation” category of the Times Higher Education...
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There’s more than one way to teach CORE
“We see from our teaching workshops that the various departments that use CORE are being very creative with the resources,” says Alvin Birdi of the teaching and learning committee. “We see different...
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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...
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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,...
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CORE Schools Economics Challenge 2018
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...
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Inspiration for the future in Afghanistan
When Omar Joya joined the faculty at the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) in Kabul in 2017, he realised that the economics in the standard introductory textbooks he started to teach often had...
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