Financial knowledge – indispensable knowledge in school

In May, for the first time in Vietnam, “Smart Finance” - a financial education playground for high school students will be officially launched. Upon hearing this information, as a parent, Ms. Tran Ngoc (Hanoi) expressed her joy and said that this is a useful and practical program for students. She shared that she has long admired young people abroad for knowing how to manage personal expenses, and even how to invest. However, her two children are still quite confused about how to use money. Typically, at the beginning of the new year, the children often receive a large sum of money as lucky money, but do not know how to use it properly. Currently, most of the children will leave it to their parents to keep and only use this money when they need to buy items such as shoes, clothes or books...

Not only in the case of her children, through practical contact, Ms. Ngoc realized that many young people today still lack knowledge about how to manage and spend small amounts of money reasonably, often only for personal interests instead of using them more effectively. Currently, every year, Ms. Ngoc spends her children's lucky money to buy gold with the goal of saving and preserving childhood memories.

Financial knowledge – indispensable equipment for students

Sharing about this playground, Editor-in-Chief of Banking Times, Ms. Le Thi Thuy Sen, said that financial books or teachings from adults sometimes do not reach the attention of children. Instead of conveying messages with dry language, if told with vivid examples close to daily life, financial lessons will become closer and more attractive to children. "Program creators need to put themselves in the shoes of students, not in the shoes of adults," Ms. Le Thi Thuy Sen shared.

Together with Banking Times, FPT Corporation will apply modern technology to create an attractive and creative playground, helping students to be interested in accessing financial knowledge. Ms. Sen also expressed her hope that the program will have a strong influence in the community, each lesson will be a solid foundation to help students improve their financial knowledge and skills.

She said that how to convey content that is both attractive, lively, and accessible while still ensuring accuracy is not an easy problem. However, with the dedication of the program creators, when the playground officially launches, it will partly meet the expectations of parents who have equipped themselves with solid financial resources from an early age.

Recently, the Government Office issued Notice No. 172/TB-VPCP dated April 11, 2025, concluding the National Steering Committee on Financial Inclusion at its Second Session. It clearly stated that it is necessary to focus on communication, education, improving knowledge, understanding of finance and skills in using financial services and personal financial management for people. Thereby, helping people see the convenience, safety and confidence when participating in using official financial products and services, building and developing digital citizenship programs nationwide, especially for people in remote areas.

The goal is to provide equal and comprehensive access for all people to financial products and services, especially for the disadvantaged, people in remote, border and island areas, students; make the most of the technologies of the 4.0 Industrial Revolution and the digital transformation process; ensure security, safety and confidentiality for people and businesses in accessing and using modern financial products and services.

To achieve the above goals and tasks, not only pioneering in coordinating the organization of financial education playgrounds, in recent times, Banking Times has built a comprehensive finance column on printed and electronic newspapers, in which comprehensive finance content is presented in many rich and attractive forms such as videos, infographics, graphics, etc.; continuing to work with VTV to produce the program "Key Keeper". This is a television program that has received many positive responses from the audience and has been highly appreciated by many classes of the public.

“These solutions aim to equip the young generation with financial knowledge and skills, not only helping them to be more proactive in managing their personal finances but also contributing to improving people’s knowledge and promoting the country’s sustainable development,” affirmed the Editor-in-Chief of Banking Times.

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