TechFlow news, November 24 — According to Cryptopolitan, New Zealand's Education Minister Erica Stanford announced the country will embed a mandatory financial literacy program into its national curriculum starting in 2026, with full implementation planned for 2027.
The curriculum will cover students from grades 1 to 10, including understanding of modern payment systems and tracking market indicators such as digital assets and token prices. Lower-grade students (grades 1–5) will learn foundational skills such as income, expenses, savings, and bank account management, while upper-grade students (grades 6–10) will engage with more complex concepts like investments, interest, taxation, and insurance.
The curriculum design will include basic instruction on blockchain technology. Students will gain hands-on experience through a classroom token reward system, recording transactions on a public class ledger to demonstrate core blockchain principles. In advanced activities, students will assume roles as miners, nodes, and users, using sticky notes to represent blocks and solving validation challenges.
