Instrumental learning and the financial educator: ten years after leaving the Sydney financial markets to establish what has become New Zealand's largest post-experience finance program, Dawn Lorimer spoke to B+FS about what she has learned about helping others learn.(EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT)(Interview)

Publication: Journal of Banking and Financial Services

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A feature of financial education in recent years has been the personnel flow from the financial markets into academic life, with the spin-off benefits this has created in terms of the professional capability and credibility of graduates.

Q: Who are your customers and are they always right?

Students are our main customers, however, the firms that are going to employ them are also important, as many of them will be paying the bills. In many cases the two sets of interests are aligned, because students want the skills and knowledge that will get them the job.

Certainly the students need to know how the markets and the work environment operates, some of it is pretty sophisticated these days. In other cases, we supply skills or techniques that may be new to the employer so, in a sense, we...

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