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              Financial literacy

              • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
                Only 1 in 4 young adults received financial education at school, study shows

                Poor access to money management is pushing students towards ‘unreliable’ online resources, says Santander UK chair

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              • Monday, 6 January, 2025
                FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
                Finland fuels children’s future with financial literacy and food

                World-beating ambition drives real-life business practice and free lunches for kids

                Children walking and interacting in an educational indoor setup resembling a miniature town, with storefronts like Lidl and Helen displayed on the walls
              • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
                Private investing
                Free reader event: Quiz Stuart Kirk on his investment plans for 2025

                FT columnists Stuart Kirk, Claer Barrett and Moria O’Neill to take reader questions at online webinar

                Line-up of Stuart Kirk, Moira O’Neill and Claer Barrett
              • Friday, 20 December, 2024
                FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
                UK’s elite Marines undergo financial literacy training

                The FT’s Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign launches adult education programme for the military

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              • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
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                FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign

                The FT invites readers to join our campaign to promote financial literacy in the UK and around the world

                Illustration showing people wearing a toolbelt of financial tools
              • Friday, 13 December, 2024
                Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
                Let’s put financial literacy on the breakfast menu

                Schools need to prepare pupils for the digital financial future that awaits them

                Illustration of breakfast items circling around a bank card, calculator, book and pencil
              • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
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                Mellody Hobson: ‘Most parents would rather talk about a condom than a credit card’

                The Ariel Investments co-chief executive explains why financial literacy is a family affair

                Mellody Hobson in front of Altarpiece, 1990/1996, by Keith Haring in her New York apartment
              • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
                FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
                The power of putting financial literacy — and buttered toast — on the school curriculum

                Lucy Kellaway looks at how FLIC and Magic Breakfast — the two charities backed by this year’s FT seasonal appeal — are feeding young minds

                A colour illustration of three kids in school uniform, two girls and one boy, eating breakfast. There are backdrop images of robots and one-pound coins. The girl on the left stands, cheering; the other two are seated at a table of bowls of fruit and cereal
              • Monday, 2 December, 2024
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                Two vital interventions to boost children’s life chances

                FT Seasonal Appeal backs charities devoted to financial literacy and free school meals

                Close-up of a child’s hand picking up a piece of toast from a stack on a blue plate, with brightly colored dishes and a blurred background
              • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
                What Generation Alpha wants to learn about money

                A sense of the challenges ahead mean primary and secondary schoolchildren are eager for financial literacy

                Michelle Sheridan with 10-year-old son Sawyer at the GoHenry round table event
              • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
                FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
                Could TikTok, apps and Gemma Collins boost women’s pensions?

                Scottish Widows study shows more than 2mn UK women will not be able to afford to retire

                Reality TV and social media star Gemma Collins is fronting the Pay Your Pension Some Attention campaign
              • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
                Make financial education compulsory in English schools, business urges

                Open letter from industry coalition adds pressure on government to ensure children are taught how money works

                Children attend a mathematics lesson at St Mary’s Primary School in Stoke on Trent
              • Friday, 4 October, 2024
                News in-depthPersonal Finance
                Why are the British so reluctant to invest?

                Millions of people have five-figure sums sitting in cash, in spite of inflation’s corrosive effects

              • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
                Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
                The best investment tip of all? Start when you’re young

                Sir Douglas Flint joins calls to boost personal finance teaching in schools

              • Friday, 23 August, 2024
                Bobby Seagull
                Maths education is failing UK students

                To combat worrying GCSE trends, we must make the discipline relevant to young people

                A frustrated student
              • Friday, 23 August, 2024
                Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
                Data is the key to supporting Britain’s poorest pensioners

                As energy bills rise, bolder reforms are needed to identify the 880,000 households missing out on pension credit

              • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
                Personal Finance
                Selling financial freedom: a brash breed of influencers appeal to Gen Z investors

                Private jets, Lambos and selling trading courses for £150 a month — something doesn’t add up in the world of the ‘hustle bros’

              • Saturday, 27 July, 2024
                Claer Barrett
                Access to cash is the tip of a digital iceberg

                Things are getting back to normal after the CrowdStrike debacle. But for millions of UK adults, the online outage continues

                A customer uses an automated teller machine (ATM)
              • Friday, 19 July, 2024
                Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
                Would you turn to Reddit for investment ideas?

                It’s no surprise that social platforms are the go-to place when industry communications appear designed to obfuscate

              • Monday, 15 July, 2024
                FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
                Even Wall Street bankers’ kids need lessons in financial literacy

                In the US, entrepreneurs, donors and family foundations are backing initiatives to teach the basics of managing money

                A man in a polo shirt standing in an empty classroom with book-filled shelves and old computers lining the wall behind him
              • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
                Moira O'Neill
                Why are fewer people getting financial advice?

                Numbers are down on last year, thanks in part to the burden of new regulations. But is this necessarily a bad thing?

                Montage of woman from behind with pen and pound signs and exclamation marks
              • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
                Personal debt
                Nearly 3mn fell into financial difficulty last year in the UK

                Study finds more than 20mn people in Britain are now living in vulnerable circumstances

                Person in a raincoat walks past a grafittied wall with ‘Food bank!’ and an arrow written on it
              • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
                FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
                Teens lack financial literacy and maths skills for digital economy, OECD report finds

                Study highlights gap in rich countries between access to banking products and an understanding of how finance works

                A teenager holding banknotes and a credit card
              • Friday, 21 June, 2024
                Moira O'Neill
                Should you really open the Bank of Mum and Dad?

                ‘Nepo-investors’ are on the rise, but will they spend wisely?

              • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
                Central banks woo ‘wider audience’ with economy museums

                Sweden’s newly opened Economy Museum is the latest effort to make monetary policy more accessible

                The world’s largest coin, Swedish plate money
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