BUSINESS education provider Ambitious Minds has launched its Leadership Development division, recruiting sector specialist Jeff Biggin to head up the programme. The new division complements Ambitious Minds' existing suite of financial education products and provides significant growth potential for the business. Jeff, 55, joins the firm as Head of Leadership Development from Kaplan Hawksmere, where he delivered leadership development training for a …

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PARENTS need to put pressure on schools to ensure their children are taught adequate financial skills as part of their education, says Sean McGuire, chief executive of education specialist Ambitious Minds. The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Financial Education for Young People, a group of 226 MPs and peers, today published its recommendations, which include making personal finance education a compulsory part …

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ONE of the country’s most senior accountants visited Bellerive FCJ in Liverpool to see how sixth form students were learning the skills to be able to manage their finances as independent adults. Clive Parritt, the president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, chose to visit the school as his only official engagement before he spoke at the …

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As part of our launch for Keep the Cash! in Northern Ireland, our first session in Belfast was filmed for the daily evening news report, UTV Live Tonight. The programme featured students at Our Lady and St Patrick's College in Knock who spent the day learning how to manage their finances during a session of Keep the Cash!

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Keep the Cash! had a very successful launch in the Republic of Ireland this week, featuring on the popular children's news programme, news2day.

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Earlier this year we delivered our first session of Keep the Cash! in the secure care system. It was a challenging day but one that we found incredibly rewarding and we were delighted to learn that both the young adults and the staff at Barton Moss Secure Care Centre felt the same. This is what Sarah Walsh, Head of Education at …

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SIXTY London youngsters took their first steps on the path to financial independence when they took part in their first session of Keep the Cash! The Year 9 and Year 10 students at Westminster City School took part in a day-long simulation that got them dealing with the financial issues created when living in a house. Everyone involved at the school was …

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A school in Gloucestershire has become the first in the area to launch a planned programme of financial education for its students by putting them through a one-day session of Keep the Cash! The Cotswold School in Bourton-on-the-Water played host to Learn About Finance facilitators, the Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, Dame Janet Trotter and the local press as students began …

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BIRKENHEAD MP Frank Field was an interested observer on Friday as students at University Academy Birkenhead took their first steps towards building sustainable lives for themselves as independent adults. 30 Year 10 students worked in teams to manage their finances using different sources of credit, prepare CVs and undergo job interviews, as they tried to fund their chosen lifestyles. The simulation, …

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Classroom-based simulation Keep the Cash! wowed the guests at the 2011 Merseyside Innovation Awards, gaining 36% of the audience vote – nine percentage points higher than second-placed Weir and Carmichael. Learn About Finance director Sean McGuire was delighted with the response that Keep the Cash! received. He said: "We have spent two years …

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