Best blogs 2013: Fixing South Africa’s financial education

Can you educate people to do sensible things with their money? Or is good financial management, like common sense, probably something you are born with?  Prolific Biznews.com blogger Alexx Zarr reckons there’s more to equipping people with the skills to make smart personal financial decisions than putting together a financial education curriculum. Addressing basic literacy … Read more

Supporting Dave Woollam: How SA’s education system contributes to bad financial decision-making

It’s no secret that South Africa has a troubled education system. The country’s learners perform poorly on measures of reading and comprehension, mathematical literacy, and scientific knowledge and reasoning, which reduces their employ-ability and productivity, not to mention preventing them from achieving their full personal potential. But the damage wrought by an under-performing education system extends beyond just hobbling the … Read more