Financial Capability - What is it and why do it?
Other follow on sessions
It ain't all being spent on avocado on toast: The
reality of student budgeting advice
Ideas for budgeting information / workshop initiatives to take forward in
their own institutions;
• Preventative measures that we as advisers can introduce to encourage
financial literacy among students;
• Reflection on the changing landscape of student finance;
• Reflection on students having to be more financially resilient and creative in
earning and budgeting, and our role in helping them (individually or
collectively) to do this
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Embedding FLE in Passion Subjects: Piquing
interest and understanding implicit motivations
for student participation in campus events
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Develop a creative outlook concerning designing FLE programmes and
events.
• Gain a more robust understanding of the intersectionality between student
and staff motivation for FLE.
• Grow in confidence when taking a Student-centred approach to FLE
planning.
• Establish strategies for embedding FLE in diverse subjects for different
interest groups.
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Mine has to include:
FACTS & Figures (e.g. MAPS, STS, BB possibly)
Type of people helped - Crisis, non crisis, international, specific groups (carer, lp, care exp etc.), people with circumstance change (divorce, bereavement etc.)
University specific reasons: student retention, graduate attributes, ability to self support, be confident and resilient advisor
Examples of what fin cap is/can be and how broad scope it can be
Dangers of students taking poor advice from other sources such as insta, ill informed peers
Difficulty of changing landscape - middle aged women and gen z have very different experiences
Maybe touch on/weave about general financial attitudes in uk?
Constant focus on evaluating and tangible results - is this harming us?
What is it?
What do I want them to reflect on/take away?
See/reflect upon the value fin cap has
Have them think about their own student demographics and what issues/topics might be vital for them
Think about easy wins
Be inspired to try different options/tasks/ideas
Make sure to have experiential examples to work on with them
Make sure to make clear it depends on your student body and there isn't a "gold standard" as it doesn't allow for diversity