As she prepares for life after sixth form, 17-year-old Rosie Grant writes about her current understanding of the financial world and urges for more to be done in schools to help teenagers learn basic personal finance skills.
One minute you're sixteen, living at home, without a clue about the financial world. Next, you're sprung into an assembly and your teacher is telling you that you need to get your act together and get a loan if you wish to go into higher education. As you begin to research into student loans you start to realise there is a whole different world out there, something you feel you have been left to discover on your own. During my six years at secondary school, I have never had a lesson on financial education - and unless I picked economics as a GCSE/A Level which only a quarter of 200 st...
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