Finance Education for Young Adults
Finance Education for Young Adults
The world of personal finance has become increasingly complex and providers of financial services are at a considerable advantage to the public.
The skill base required to assess financial products has broadened. Coupled with increasingly poor levels of numeracy, many school leavers are making poor financial decisions.
An A Level in Finance would tackle many of these problems.
Finance education needs to be;
Independent of financial service firms,
Critical, generating an ability to analyse/criticise,
Mathematical, since it is inherently a quantitative topic and
Relevant and applied to choices that people make.
The need for Finance lessons
Children need finance lessons
Pupils learn to count the cost
Lessons in money for school children
Credit card lessons for five year olds
Education: Lessons in money
UK must learn Christmas Finance
Consumer Debt
UK Debt likely to hit £1 trillion
UK Debt hits £1 trillion (million, million)
How I shook off the shackles of debt
28 years old and bankrupt
The Dos and Don'ts of debt
In Depth: Borrowing and Debt
Borrowing and Debt
Pawn Broking Industry and Lotteries
Why Pawn is back in business
Can a lottery make you happy?
Pensions and Savings
Pension changes bring risks
Saving for your children
Rescue Maths
Action plan to rescue Maths
A definition of Finance
The Science of the management of money and other assets.
Financial Education
BBC on PFEG
PFEG
AITC
DFES
DTI
IPPR
FSA
Independent
HERO
GCE Finance A Level