Education

The Government has today announced plans to introduce a higher education loan scheme to help people study, train or retrain at any point during their lives via flexible courses. The loan, dubbed the 'lifelong loan entitlement', will be worth the equivalent of four years of post-18 education. Here's all you need to know. 

Half a million financial education textbooks will be given to schools in an initiative funded by MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis.

If your kids have just got their GCSE results and are heading off to college for A-levels, further education or an approved training course, you MUST tell the taxman if you're claiming child benefit or risk losing out on thousands of pounds a year.

Parents whose children are heading off to college for A-levels, further education or approved training courses must tell HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) or risk losing out on child tax credits and child benefit.

Parents hoping to take their children on term-time holidays have been dealt a blow after the Department for Education vowed to take its fight to ban them all the way to the Supreme Court.

Millions of graduates will soon have to repay much more of their loans than they were initially told after the Government secretly backtracked on a promise – a move MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis has branded "a disgrace".

Every taxpayer is to receive a personal statement spelling out what the Government is spending their tax on.

More than a quarter of 2006/07 graduates were not in full time work three and a half years after leaving university, new figures show.

Two thirds of young people are worried about not having enough money in the future, according to survey results released today by charity Personal Finance Education Group (pfeg).

Schools across the UK are being encouraged to offer financial education lessons with the launch of My Money Week and Teen Cash Class Activity Sheets.