Financial education as part of tertiary and trade qualifications

People undertaking formal training can complete unit standards on a range of personal financial management topics such as making wise money decisions, budgeting and tax. These provide an excellent opportunity for developing general numeracy and literacy skills as well as for financial education.

These unit standards can be included in the level 2 qualifications of pre-employment training, trade training and Industry Training Organisations. To find out more, contact your Industry Training Organisation.

These unit standards are also suitable for use in foundation skills programmes, adult and community education and workplace learning.

These resources have been developed with the support of business and union representatives, tertiary education providers and qualification experts.

The seven education packs (each pack includes a workbook, study guide and facilitators manual) can be used separately or linked together into a progressive course. (One of the unit standards is level 1, five are level 2, and one is level 3). Download the resources below.

Unit standard	Content description	Level	Credits
24699	Making wise money decisions	2	2
24710	Making a family or household budget	2	3
24707	Financial goals and plans	2	3
24705	Making sense of financial documents	1	2
24704	Knowing how banks can help you	2	2
24695	Understanding income and tax	2	3
24696	Understanding income, credit and tax	3	5

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