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Financial literacy

  • 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

  • Monday, 26 August, 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, 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
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Financial fraud
    Advisers worry as social media investment scams surge

    Trusted figures often used to persuade people to put money into fraudulent schemes

    A woman gazes at her mobile phone screen
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Investor and ‘Dragon’ Deborah Meaden: ‘I am not mean. What I am is . . . tough’

    The British entrepreneur on going green, improving financial education — and when it’s OK for a vegan to eat eggs

  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    Personal Finance
    What I wish I’d known before my smartphone was snatched

    As phone theft surges, how can you protect your financial data?

  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    Earn your stripes with Financial Times x With Nothing Underneath’s new boyfriend shirt

    The salmon-pink collaboration is raising funds for the newspaper’s Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign (FLIC)

    WNU x FT limited-edition pink-stripe Tencel The Boyfriend shirt, £120, withnothingunderneath.com
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Have you got five minutes to talk about investing?

    It is high time we normalised conversations about money

  • Monday, 15 April, 2024
    Only 1% of UK primary schoolteachers think pupils have ‘adequate’ financial literacy

    Campaigners warn that confidence in basic numeracy is at a low level among youngsters

    A primary school maths class
  • Saturday, 9 March, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    What women want their financial future to look like

    The Budget and International Women’s Day remind us that the campaign for equality is still far from won

    Illustration of three women, one holding a child with an abacus, against a background of economic charts
  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
    Financial education in England’s schools a ‘pyrrhic victory’, Martin Lewis says

    Consumer champion tells MPs resources were pulled from private providers after subject’s 2014 addition to curriculum

    Screen grab of Martin in black and white pullover
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