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Financial literacy

  • 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

    Recruits doing PT in the gym hall. The Royal Marines commando training centre in Lympstone, Devon.
  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    FT charity appeal
    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
    HTSIHow To Give It in 2024
    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
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    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
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    More effort needed on financial literacy in the UK

    The education system is falling short in teaching this vital life skill

    View of a primary school child’s hands  using coloured cubes to study maths in a school
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    UK schools
    UK primary school children should have better financial literacy education, say MPs

    Calls for review of current maths curriculum to expand ‘the provision and relevance’ of financial education

    Pupils work on a maths problem  in a classroom
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