The teaching of personal finance in schools may be rolled out after trials were deemed a success.
For the past three years, 300 secondary schools have been teaching personal finance issues such as managing credit.
A report from Brunel University said the scheme had proved to be an aid to financial awareness.
The Personal Finance Education Group […]
A committee of MPs has criticised the Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) regulation of financial .
The Treasury committee said the FSA should copy the policy of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and make its findings public.
Committee chairman John McFall MP has written to FSA chairman Sir Callum McCarthy complaining about its methods.
But the FSA responded by […]
A new air service has been launched that will run services between the Isle of Man and .
The Eastern service will fly every day except and will become a seven day service in April.
The airline said the route is aimed at passengers from the finance and industries and maritime businesses heading […]
One of South Korea’s richest businessmen, Kim Seung-youn, has been jailed for 18 months for abducting and assaulting workers in a karaoke bar.
Kim, 55, chairman of the Hanwha Group, was convicted of attacking the men with the aid of his bodyguards, to punish them for scuffling with his son.
He admitted for much of the […]
The office staff here could be imitating art except that their one liners are too good to have been written by a dramatist - and what they are up to is a little more serious than selling paper in Slough.
The front runner for the role of David Brent at the offices of Yes Car […]
Former City player Ray Ranson says he has made an offer to buy the Premiership club.
Ranson, who is a former City full-back, has yet to receive a response from the club’s board and is currently considering making a further proposal.
Multi-millionaire Ranson, 46, is said to have made a 90m offer for the club.
City, whose […]
Former Manchester City player Ray Ranson says he has made an offer to buy the Premiership club.
Ranson, who is a former City full-back, has yet to receive a response from the club’s board and is currently considering making a further proposal.
Multi-millionaire Ranson, 46, is said to have made a 90m offer for the club.
City, whose […]
Former City player Ray Ranson says he has made an offer to buy the Premiership club.
Ranson, who is a former City full-back, has yet to receive a response from the club’s board and is currently considering making a further proposal.
Multi-millionaire Ranson, 46, is said to have made a 90m offer for the club.
City, whose […]
Former City player Ray Ranson says he has made an offer to buy the Premiership club.
Ranson, who is a former City full-back, has yet to receive a response from the club’s board and is currently considering making a further proposal.
Ranson, 46, is said to have made a 90m offer for the club.
City, whose […]
The students at St Columba’s College in St Albans are taking finance very seriously. They are studying it as part of the Institute for Financial Services curriculum.
All the boys are taking their AS levels and in addition are taking an IFS course (an AS level equivalent qualification). The course looks at the structure of […]