Gosling's Grouse: school for thought

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Lawrence Gosling, group editorial director at Incisive Media, reflects on a plan to teach finance in schools.

So personal finance is going to come onto the National Curriculum and be taught in schools. I am not sure whether to dance with joy or shrug my shoulders at the pointlessness of it all. For years I have been arguing that more needs to be done in schools, which has been largely limited to the Personal Finance Education Group (PFEG) charity. The PFEG is well-meaning but ineffectual and starts with the major handicap of being funded by the industry. In league with a zealot? I find myself confused on the broader issue because Martin Lewis, he of website MoneySavingExpert fame and now fo...

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