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============================================ Economics UPDATE The monthly Economics LTSN Email Newsletter ============================================ 05 April 2004 Welcome to the Economics LTSN Email Newsletter. This newsletter is intended to inform ECON-LTSN subscribers about our activities and to provide other information that may be of interest. Economics UPDATE will be distributed on the first Monday of each calendar month. ========== CONTENTS ========== 1. WHAT'S NEW Alumni Survey 2. NOTICEBOARD Economics Student Survey 2004 New Extended Case Study 3. IDEAS Innovative Courses 4. AND FINALLY..... Interactive Data =============== 1. WHAT'S NEW =============== ALUMNI SURVEY As part of research into learning, teaching and employability Economics LTSN is conducting an Alumni Survey. If you have contacts with your former students we would be grateful if you could please email the following information to them: ------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Economics graduate Re: Alumni Survey: Your views wanted! The Economics Subject Centre of the Learning and Teaching Support Network (Economics LTSN) is seeking your help to obtain valuable information about the knowledge and skills you acquired at university and their relevance to your job and career. Our Alumni Survey is part of an ongoing research project into learning and teaching and employability in Economics HE. The survey results will help us better understand the links between curriculum, learning experiences and career outcomes. The aggregated results will be available on our Web site and we hope will enhance future students experiences. We appreciate the time you give to provide Economics LTSN with information about your experiences learning Economics in the HE UK. Please, complete the online questionnaire at: http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/ltsn/alumni You can complete the survey anonymously. It consists of 3 sections and should take around 10 minutes to complete. We are offering three prizes of GBP50 book vouchers. The winner will be selected at random for those completing the survey and opting to take part in the draw. Thank you. If you have any questions please contact: Dr Inna Pomorina, Research Officer, Economics LTSN Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: (0117) 9287163 ------------------------------------------------------------ ================ 2. NOTICEBOARD ================ ECONOMICS STUDENT SURVEY 2004 Economics LTSN is running its second national economics student survey from 23rd March until 8th May. Please encourage your students to take part. There are five prizes of GBP50 book vouchers to be given to randomly chosen participants: http://www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk/survey/student.htm NEW EXTENDED CASE STUDY Teaching of Economics to European Studies & Language Students http://www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk/showcase/brouwer_area.htm ========== 3. IDEAS ========== INNOVATIVE COURSES Faced with a big drop in science students, some universities have devised innovative courses including a degree with no exams at all: http://education.guardian.co.uk/virtualfairs/story/0,12854,1161282,00.html ================== 4. AND FINALLY... ================== INTERACTIVE DATA Aiming to "make data on world development understandable, enjoyable and free", Gapminder offers some interesting interactive uses of technology to humanise economic data. These include "Dollar Street", in which you tour homes that are representative of various incomes, as well as several colourful interactive graphs of health, income and education. You may need to approve download of the latest version of the Shockwave plug-in for parts of the site to work: http://gapminder.org/ ============ CONTACT US ============ If you have any suggestions, feedback or comments please contact: Bhagesh Sachania, Information Officer, Economics LTSN Email: [log in to unmask] Tel.:(0117) 928 7071