Are Economics Graduates Fit For Purpose? (Part 1)

In 2012 the Bank of England held a conference entitled 'Are Economics Graduates Fit for Purpose'. Following the financial crisis, economic academics from around the world were invited to come and discuss economic syllabuses and whether they still adequately equipped undergraduate students with the skills needed to be effective economists. Their opinions were mixed but one thing that was agreed upon was that undergraduate education could be improved. We, The Post-Crash Economics Society, brought the discussion to Manchester and managed to get three of Britain's leading economists (Victoria Chick, Paul Ormerod, Jonathan Leape) to come in and speak alongside our Head of Department, Ken Clark, about the state of modern economics education.

We are a group of economics students at the University of Manchester who believe that the content economics syllabus and the way it is taught could and should be seriously rethought. We're running a campaign to try and persuade our economics department to change their syllabus, and are running events and collecting signatures for a petition in order to achieve this goal. Please read the petition which is linked below, and sign with us if you agree that the content of degrees in economics must be revised:

Guide to the video (sadly the hyperlinks don't work properly):

Victoria Chick - 7:35 (Part 1)

Jonathan Leape - 24:00 (Part 1)

Paul Ormerod: 5:15 (Part 2)

Ken Clark - the start of Part 3

Q & A - 16:45 in Part 3 onwards

[umbomdia]

Let's spread these kind of inicatives! thanks for your will and attitude, I hope to see something alike here in Portugal.

Hi, the petition link doesn't work - I see from the website that it's changed (I've signed up). You might want to edit the information on the video description.
Best wishes