Workplace Experience for Students
Learning Program for Elementary Schools "The VALUE of Money"
Since FY 2022, Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities has been offering a learning program for elementary schools called "The VALUE of Money". In this program, elementary school students explore positive ways to manage money through conversations and group discussions. By thinking about questions such as "What are good spending habits?" students gain not only a superficial knowledge of finance and how it works, but also an experiential understanding of the role of money and economics in life.
Children who participated in the program gave feedback such as, "I thought that being good with money meant simply saving it, but through the program, I learned that it meant spending money carefully.”
Internship Program "Dynamics of the Stock Market" for Junior High and High School Students
Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities (the Securities Business) is offering an internship program (Dynamics of the Stock Market), a unique educational program about the economy and finance. Developed in cooperation with Educa & Quest Inc., the program consists of five classes where students learn about stocks. At the program, students are asked in groups to express what they learned about "Dynamics of the stock market", in the form of advertisements on a mock newspaper advert for the Securities Business. The students then give a presentation on these advertisements to the class.
In FY 2022, approximately 600 students participated from 12 junior high and high schools in areas around Tokyo and made a total of approximately 120 advertisements. Of the participating students, eleven teams composed of representatives from each school (40 students in total) were formed to present their works online and face-to-face. At the presentation at out headquarters, the president and directors of the Securities Business gave warm words of encouragement to the students.
Internship Program "Dynamics of the Stock Market" for University Students
Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities (the Securities Business) has been offering an internship program "Dynamics of the Stock Market, or Kabu no Chikara" for university students since 2019, and over 500 students from 16 colleges have attended the program.
In this program, participating students work to solve social issues using the characteristics of stocks. Each 90-minute class is conducted in a group work format, and in the first half, the Securities Business’s employees lecture on the functions and roles of the stock market and securities companies. In the second half, students select the goals they want to achieve from among the 17 development targets (goals) of the SDGs and devise solutions using the characteristics and functions of stocks and securities they learned in the first half. At the end of the class, each group presents their solutions. Participating students have given positive feedback, such as “I was able to learn from a different perspective compared to my macroeconomics classes. It was a great learning opportunity,” “I gained a better understanding of the SDGs,” and “I want to join a securities company in the future.”
ACOM's Support for Financial Education
