Financial education will finally become a compulsory class at school, if a new draft national curriculum for England gets the go-ahead.
Budgeting and borrowing could be included on the syllabus in secondary schools in September 2014.
For the full story goto:
http://www.moneyobserver.com/news/13-02-08/financial-education-be-added-curriculum
And if you can't wait until 2014 to find out what we fail to teach our kids about money, then check out Andy Golding's book.