wakening a public thirst for knowledge about how the financial system works.
applications for degree courses beginning this autumn were up by 15% this january, according to ucas, the universities and colleges admissions service. a. spokesman for the royal economic society said applications to do economics at a-level were also up.
professor john beath, the president of the society and a leading lecture at st andrews university, said his first-year lectures---which are open to students from all departments—were drawing crowds of 400, rather than the usual 250.
“there are a large number of students who are not economics majors, who would like to learn something about it. one of the things i have done this year is to relate my teaching to contemporary events in a way that one hasn’t traditionally done. ” he added.
university applications rose 7% last year. but there were rises above
