An increase in students applying to study economics at university is being attributed to the global economic crisis awakening a public
36 for knowledge about how the financial system
37 .Applications for degree courses beginning this autumn were up by 15% this January,
38 UCAS, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. A spokesman for the Royal Economic Society said applications to do economics at A-level were
39 up.
Professor John Beath, the president of the society, and a
40 lecturer at St Andrews University, said his first-year lectures—which are open to students from all departments—were
41 crowds of 400, rather than the
42 250.
“There are a large number of students who are not economics
43 who would like to learn something about it. One of the things I have done this year is to
44 my teaching to contemporary events in a way that one hasn’t
45 done.” He added.
University applications
46 7% last year. But there were rises
47 average in several subjects. Nursing saw a 15% jump, with people’s renewed
48 in careers in the public sector, which are seen as more secure in economic crisis.
A
49 study showed almost two thirds of parents believed schools should do more to teach pupils about financial
50 and almost half said their children had asked them what was
51 , although a minority of parents felt they did not understand it themselves well enough to explain.
Zack Hocking, the head of Child Trust Funds, said: “It’s possible that one good thing to arise from the
52 will be a generation that’s financially
53 and better equipped to
54 their money through times of economic
55 .”
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