Students across England have identified setting money aside in a savings account as one of their top financial priorities, according to new figures.
The statistics, compiled by the National Skills Academy for Financial Services (NSAFS), indicate that 28 per cent of students chose savings as the main area of finance they wanted to know more about from a list of six options - mobile phones, savings, loans and mortgages, credit and debit cards, university fees and bank accounts.
Information from the survey will be used by participant colleges to help inform financial management training for students during the academic year.
Sylvia Perrins, chief executive officer for NSAFS said that it is "encouraging" to see that students are keen to save.
"Young people are much more switched on to their money issues than people think, and want to know more about how to fund themselves through their education and formative adult years," she added.
Recent figures from NS&I indicate that 25 is the average age at which Brits begin to save seriously - triggered by events such as weddings, purchasing a property, starting a family or taking a holiday.
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