Competitive consumerism Over the weekend there has been plenty of news coverage about Black Friday, the consumerist free-for-all we’ve imported from the United States in… Read More »Taming Black Friday and Cyber Monday Madness with Financial Literacy
Getting into debt to get ahead! It used to be said that the two most expensive purchases the average person would make in life would… Read More »Higher Cost. Higher Education. Guaranteed Debt
How should young people be educated for the future? The main purpose of an education system is to prepare young people for the world in… Read More »Meeting the Demands of Modern Employers
Victorian Values? In 1850, Charles Dickens published his eighth novel, David Copperfield, and in doing so introduced the world to the well meaning Mr Micawber,… Read More »Loan Shark Bait? Young workers most likely to be caught in working poverty
The Blame Game This week there have been a number of stories in the media about the way in which we prepare our young people… Read More »Putting Education to Work
Moving Goalposts in the Game of Life for Young People Picture this: You’re 16 and midway through your first term studying for A Levels. You’ve… Read More »The Children are our future and they need help
