Congratulations on your new job, Abdullah. One question, although it's very early days: do you have any mixed feelings about the fact that there isn't an economics program at Haile?
You know, I am a 'de facto' director of the economics courses at my uni, but we don't have a major in our discipline (nor a masters program either). Though I definitely do not see it this way, I feel many students (of management, marketing, entrepreneurship, etc) see economics as a peripheral subject, not the centre of their attention and not up there in their list of interests. And I can't but think that it'd be different if I were teaching economics to students majoring in economics. I wouldn't need to "sell" them economics and in some sense that's what I do: try to let them discover how big the opportunity costs of their choice of major are :)
Do you share the feeling?
All the very best and keep it on!
Jose
Prof Jose Iparraguirre
Full Professor of Economics
German International University of Applied Sciences in Cairo, Egypt
Congratulations on your new job, Abdullah. One question, although it's very early days: do you have any mixed feelings about the fact that there isn't an economics program at Haile?
You know, I am a 'de facto' director of the economics courses at my uni, but we don't have a major in our discipline (nor a masters program either). Though I definitely do not see it this way, I feel many students (of management, marketing, entrepreneurship, etc) see economics as a peripheral subject, not the centre of their attention and not up there in their list of interests. And I can't but think that it'd be different if I were teaching economics to students majoring in economics. I wouldn't need to "sell" them economics and in some sense that's what I do: try to let them discover how big the opportunity costs of their choice of major are :)
Do you share the feeling?
All the very best and keep it on!
Jose
Prof Jose Iparraguirre
Full Professor of Economics
German International University of Applied Sciences in Cairo, Egypt