The Economics Level 8 Advanced Diploma offers an in-depth exploration of modern economic principles, methodologies, and real-world applications. Structured into ten robust lectures, the course begins with advanced microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, allowing students to master key models such as utility optimisation, game theory, general equilibrium, and macro frameworks like IS-LM, AS-AD, and business cycle dynamics. These modules build a solid theoretical foundation that enables critical thinking about market behaviour, economic performance, and policy implications.

As learners progress, they engage with econometrics and quantitative techniques that are crucial for data-driven economic analysis. Lessons on time-series forecasting, panel data modelling, and endogeneity prepare students to interpret complex datasets and present empirical findings with academic rigour. The course also delves into international economics, addressing global trade, currency systems, and the economic impact of international agreements and organisations such as the WTO and EU.

Public sector economics, development economics, and environmental economics form the policy-focused components of the curriculum. Students will explore taxation, fiscal sustainability, and cost-benefit analysis, alongside key global issues such as poverty, inequality, sustainable development, and climate change policy. Additional modules in labour economics, financial markets, and industrial relations offer a broader understanding of economic systems and their human impact. The final component focuses on research methods, guiding students through the process of dissertation writing, from literature reviews to defending their findings, preparing them for doctoral-level study or policy research roles.