Financial literacy should be mandated in curriculum, teaching staff say
In 2021, 44 per cent of students left Loganlea State High School without plans for work or further study. Today that's just 20 per cent.
The school attributes the success to its financial literacy and wellbeing programs
What's next? The school and a not-for-profit say financial literacy should be mandated in the national curriculum.
Year 10 students Alyssa Rosario and Cassie Sorenson are already saving for their dream careers as a paramedic and a teacher after completing a financial literacy course.
"We've learned how to save, the difference between wanting and needing stuff, like essentials on what to save for," Cassie said.
She is now saving for university and putting aside cash in an "emergency fund" in case something unexpected comes up.
Financial literacy should be mandated in curriculum, teaching staff say
In 2021, 44 per cent of students left Loganlea State High School without plans for work or further study. Today that's just 20 per cent.
The school attributes the success to its financial literacy and wellbeing programs
What's next? The school and a not-for-profit say financial literacy should be mandated in the national curriculum.
Year 10 students Alyssa Rosario and Cassie Sorenson are already saving for their dream careers as a paramedic and a teacher after completing a financial literacy course.
"We've learned how to save, the difference between wanting and needing stuff, like essentials on what to save for," Cassie said.
She is now saving for university and putting aside cash in an "emergency fund" in case something unexpected comes up.
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Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency that you can buy, sell and exchange directly, without an intermediary like a bank. Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, originally described the need for “an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust.” Each and every Bitcoin transaction that’s ever been made exists on a public ledger accessible to everyone, making transactions hard to reverse and difficult to fake. That’s by design: Core to their decentralized nature, Bitcoins aren’t backed by the government or any issuing institution, and there’s nothing to guarantee their value besides the proof baked in the heart of the system. “The reason why it’s worth money is simply because we, as people, decided it has value—same as gold,” says Anton Mozgovoy, co-founder & CEO of digital financial service company Holyheld.
