The Telegraph – Javier Espinoza
“Primary school pupils should receive compulsory financial education lessons to promote positive attitudes towards budgeting and saving, a new parliamentary report has said as it revealed one in five financial education teachers are not confident teaching the topic. Financial education is already mandatory in secondary schools where pupils learn how to solve problems involving percentage change and simple interest. But there is now growing pressure to make this mandatory among primary school children with the report suggesting inspectors more ‘explicitly’ address how much teachers are doing to educate youngsters on money matters.”(more)