New Zealand will introduce Digital Money content in financial education courses in 2026.

2025-11-24 01:05:34

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According to Deep Tide TechFlow news on November 24, reported by Cryptopolitan, New Zealand's Education Minister Erica Stanford announced that the country will embed a mandatory financial literacy program in the national curriculum starting in 2026, with plans for full implementation in 2027.

The course will cover students from grades 1 to 10, including an understanding of modern payment systems, and covering market indicators such as digital assets and token prices. Lower grade students (grades 1-5) will learn basic skills such as income, expenses, savings, and bank account management; higher grade students (grades 6-10) will be exposed to more complex concepts such as investments, interest, taxes, and insurance.

The course design will include foundational teaching of blockchain technology, allowing students to engage in practical learning through a classroom token reward system, recording transactions on a public classroom ledger to demonstrate the core principles of blockchain. In advanced activities, students will take on the roles of miners, nodes, and users, using sticky notes to represent blocks and solve validation challenges.

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