As part of the Economics Network's ongoing research programme into teaching and learning in Economics, they conduct surveys of students every second year.

• The 2006 survey indicated that the majority (75%) of students found that their degree course met their expectations. When asked how the course differed from their expectations, students mentioned Maths, course content and its relevance to the real world, level of teaching and support for students.
• In seminars/tutorials/small classes, a vast majority go through pre-prepared problem sets or worksheets. At the same time more than 80% rarely or never have games, simulations or role-plays in seminars and nearly half rarely or never have individual student presentations.
• Half of the respondents found the teaching of maths and stats on their course very good and mostly good, though about a third of them respond that some is good and some not so good.
• A majority of respondents found the content of the degree largely relevant to the real world and the workload about right
• The big majority of respondents (67.0%) study on a course that makes use of a VLE. Almost all their comments either described VLEs positively or complained that they are underused.
• Overall, about three quarters of respondents were satisfied with the quality of their degree course.

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The Enterprise Library board has given its stamp of approval to a change in the organisation's trading name to Interactyx. The decision has been taken to reflect the interactivity of the company's product portfolio.

Speaking after the move was ratified at an Extraordinary General Meeting in London, Managing Director, Duncan Crole, said: "Interactyx has been chosen because the interactivity of our flagship product, LiveEcon, is its core strength. The X and Y in Interactyx also mirror the X and Y variables on the graphs which are an integral feature in LiveEcon and we feel the change shows how the company as moved on. We believe this decision will also prove important as we expand internationally."

Interactyx is enjoying considerable success at home and abroad, with 22 UK universities using the first product in the LiveEcon series, Macroeconomics. It has also been adopted in institutions in Australia, India and Europe and is being launched in the USA later this year.

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The next product to be launched in the LiveEcon series is Microeconomics Essentials, covering a typical first year university microeconomics course. It will be ready in June 2007, closely followed by Quantitative Methods Essentials - basic maths and statistics for economics undergraduates, due in September of this year.

The first volume in the new LiveAccounts series, Financial Accounting Level 1 will also be launched in time for the next academic year.

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