KBC teaches financial basics to secondary school pupils
The bank’s Get-a-Teacher programme sends staff to schools to teach students about budgets, saving and loans
‘Financial literacy’
More than 200 lessons have already been scheduled. Most of the KBC staff providing the lessons are young people who have a diploma in education.
“We have received increasingly more requests in recent years from secondary schools and university colleges to give lessons on bank issues,” said KBC in a statement. The bank also said that it receives requests from hospitals, non-profit organisations and other associations.
KBC is focusing on secondary schools this year, but is also preparing lessons for university colleges and universities for the next academic year. The two-hour lessons deal with topics like insurance, saving, investing and loans. Students in economics studies also get a case study on establishing your own business.
Sarina Simenon of the community education network GO!, however, told press agency Belga that financial literacy lessons would ideally not be provided by financial institutions. She pointed out that the Financial Services and Markets Authority, which supervises the Belgian financial sector, also offers information and teaching material on financial topics.
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