{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{advert|date=July 2017}} {{HEA subject centres}} The '''Economics Network''' is one of the subject networks originally established by the Higher Education Academy (HEA). On its founding it was known as the ''Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) for Economics'' later becoming independent of the HEA.
It has as its aims the improvement of learning and teaching in economics in the UK's higher education. It lists its strategic aims as: # Identifying, developing and disseminating evidence-informed approaches. # Brokering and encouraging the sharing and implementation of effective practice and innovation. # Supporting individual staff, departments and institutions in initiating and responding to change. # Informing, influencing and interpreting policy. # Celebrating and raising the status of teaching. # Operate a dynamic, highly participatory working environment that supports effective management, delivery and monitoring.<ref>https://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/ The Economics Network</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.res.org.uk/view/economicsNetwork.html|title=The Economics Network - Royal Economic Society|website=www.res.org.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/supporters |title=Partner organisations | the Economics Network |access-date=2016-06-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810015357/https://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/supporters |archive-date=2016-08-10 }}</ref>
== Notable activities== In March 2015 the Economics Network (supported by the Royal Economic Society) held a notable conference on "Revisiting the State of Economics Education" as a follow-up to the conference at the Bank of England in 2012 on economics teaching and the financial the crisis.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.res.org.uk/details/event/7191341/Revisiting-the-State-of-Economics-Education.html|title=Revisiting the State of Economics Education - Royal Economic Society|website=www.res.org.uk}}</ref>
== Publications== *International Review of Economics Education<ref>see [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1477388015302152/pdfft?md5=d29628a47a400ee54d322c87fa47c28a&pid=1-s2.0-S1477388015302152-main.pdf editorial] in ''International Review of Economics Education'', Volume 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 6-8</ref>
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== Further reading == * {{cite journal |last1=Birdi |first1=Alvin |last2=Elliott |first2=Caroline |last3=Poulter |first3=Martin |last4=O'Leary |first4=Ros |last5=Sloman |first5=John |title=A critical reflection on the first twenty-five years of the Economics Network |journal=International Review of Economics Education |date=June 2026 |volume=52 |article-number=100346 |doi=10.1016/j.iree.2026.100346|doi-access=free }} * {{cite book |last=Sloman |first=John |chapter=Supporting Economics Higher Education in the United Kingdom |year=2011 |title=International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics |editor-last=Hoyt |editor-first=Gail M. |url=https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781848449688/9781848449688.00098.xml |publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing |doi=10.4337/9781781002452.00098 |isbn=978-1-78100-245-2 |last2=Pomorina |first2=Inna |editor2-last=McGoldrick |editor2-first=KimMarie|pages=759-771}}
==External links== *[https://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/ The Economics Network]
Category:Economics education Category:Education in the United Kingdom Category:Educational organisations based in the United Kingdom Category:Organisations based in Bristol Category:University of Bristol
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