Category: Higher education
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Economists in business, policy and academia are deploying artificial intelligence across a wide range of cognitive tasks. The most important employability skill in this age of AI is not a single fixed capability, but the broader, layered meta-competence of ‘learning to learn’ with the new tools.
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A co-ordinated effort across the UK higher education sector will make it possible to integrate artificial intelligence into economics education in a way that enriches students’ learning experience while maintaining the rigour and value that makes degrees in the subject so much in demand.
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The discipline of economics lags behind other social sciences in its engagement with issues of racial and ethnic inequality. Strengthening the scientific foundation of race-related research is essential if economists are to contribute meaningfully to public debate about racial justice.



