Personal finance for beginners
Friday, January 15th, 2010
I’ve written before about the course I gave in 2008 at George Brown College. It’s designed for 20-to-35-year-olds and deals with smart money management.
The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada and the Investor Education Fund are sponsoring the course, which they hope to expand across the country.
You can find a full-page ad for the upcoming sessions in Now magazine’s current issue, page 9, with the headline, “Face debt head-on.”
After doing this course three times, we sat down to rethink how it was delivered. We came up with some ideas on how to make it better.
– Keep it short. Last time, I taught three Saturdays in a row, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. It was a big commitment for participants. This ..read more