The University of London is a federal University which includes 17 world leading Colleges. With extensive experience in distance learning since 1858, University of London has enriched the lives of thousands of students, delivering high quality degrees across the globe. Today, University of London is a global leader in flexible study, offering degree programmes to over 45,000 students in over 190 countries, delivering world-leading research across the world. To find out more about University of London, visit www.london.ac.uk

Founded in 1826 in the heart of London, University College London is London's leading multidisciplinary university, with more than 13,000 staff and 42,000 students from 150 different countries. UCL counts 30 Nobel Prize winners amongst its academics and alumni and is consistently ranked in the global top 20 for its academic excellence and research. We are a diverse global community with the freedom and courage to challenge, to question and to think differently. Through a progressive approach to teaching and research, our world leading academics, curious students and outstanding staff continually pursue excellence, break boundaries and make an impact on real world problems.

We are a global community of learners, teachers and researchers with a mission to transform the teaching of economics. We are doing so by developing free online textbooks and other resources for use in both formal education and by independent learners, giving everyone the tools to understand the economics of the world around them and some of the serious problems facing our societies, such as inequality, financial instability, environmental degradation, wealth creation and innovation. Now more than 115,000 students each year are taught using CORE, in over 368 universities in 61 countries, and in five languages.