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Budgeting, taxes and money management set to be focus of latest curriculum update

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 30 Apr 2025, 5:58pm
Erica Stanford.  Photo / Mark Mitchell
Erica Stanford. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Budgeting, taxes and money management set to be focus of latest curriculum update

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 30 Apr 2025, 5:58pm

Another Government curriculum refresh is aiming to give school kids more grasp of money management.

The Education Minister's making financial literacy a compulsory topic for years one to ten.

The Government is teaming up with financial organisations, banks, and charities for lessons on investment and taxes.

Erica Stanford says kids will learn a small dose each year, increasing in complexity as they get older - in order to build up financial skills over their time at school.

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