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FinLit programs damaging schools

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2007
Teaching financial literacy in primary schools simply adds clutter to an already overcrowded curriculum, said Leonie Trimper, president of the Australian Primary Principals Association (APPA). Citing examples of US schools being forced to cancel morning ...

FinLit Foundation launches into workplaces

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2007
... workplace, stepping up its efforts to work with the tertiary education sector and is even launching dramatic productions for schools. In developing the workplace booklet, the Foundation has worked with two non-financial services companies in Unilever ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
... educational wastage and if the existing situation cannot be managed, one wonders about the promised addition of 15 new trade schools over four years.

FinLit database to identify gaps and overlaps

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
... Foundation is also now compiling feedback it gained from a range of nationwide teacher inservice seminars regarding how schools themselves think the Financial Literacy campaign should operate in classrooms. "We are about to develop a database of financial ...

Modern kids are consumer savvy: CommBank

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2006
... (AFLA), was conducted by the Commonwealth Bank Foundation (CBF). It surveyed 50,000 year nine and 10 students from over 500 schools across Australia. "Many students show difficulties interpreting a bank statement, with only 48 per cent of year nine students ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2006
... per cent. Chinese students now make up about a quarter of all students in the universities, TAFE, private colleges and schools in Australia.

Costello puts super and savings in the hands of kids

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
... Carol Duncan yesterday, the Treasurer said that the government's financial literacy campaign is being introduced into schools through a Lifeskills program which aims to make children more financially savvy. "By doing very environmentally friendly things ...

Move over FinLit, CrickLit is on its way

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2006
... program already seems more advanced than some of the Financial Litercay prgrams as it is set to commence among participating schools in Term Four this year and is already equiped with "resources [that] can be taught as educational units within the primary ...

FinLit Foundation goes back to school

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
The Financial Literacy Foundation's plan to introduce useful curriculum into schools is about to take its next step with a series of grassroots consultations with teachers around Australia. According to its just released Educators and Trainers August ...

Citibank's Agent Penny: licensed to teach

... partner in the venture is the Malaysian Invention & Design Society (MINDS). "Conducting the Agent Penny program in over 12 schools reaching out to more than 10,000 children last year was indeed a great challenge but it was well worth the effort," said ...