At last! From September 2014 financial education becomes part of the national curriculum in schools!

Fee, KJ and Chris wonder what difference it'll make...

Association for Citizenship Teaching: GCSE Citizenship Studies continues to be used by many schools and centres across the country with just under 54,000 candidates attaining the qualification in 2013. The provisional statistics for the subject published by the Joint Council for Qualifications show that overall candidate numbers for Citizenship Studies have fallen in the short course, but there has been a small increase in numbers for the full course.

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