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MSE’s Academy of Money
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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Martin Upton in collaboration with Money Saving Expert. It was first published in May 2020 and last updated May 2022.

This course was created by The Open University with contributions and collaboration from MoneySavingExpert.com. The content unless otherwise stated in the course or in the acknowledgements below (or identifiable as third party content in the course) is owned and/or controlled by The Open University and/or MoneySavingExpert.com and is made available subject to the Creative Commons 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 4.0/ [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] :

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Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following which is not subject to Creative Commons licensing unless stated as such.

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Figure 7: Drawing: The Open University, background Pexels

Figure 8: © Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) (2017b) ‘Mortgage arears fell in third quarter’ https://www.cml.org.uk/ news/ press-releases/ mortgage-arrears-fell-in-third-quarter/

Figure 9: adapted from Nationwide Building Society (2022) ‘UK House Prices Adjusted for Inflation’ https://www.nationwidehousepriceindex.co.uk/ resources/ f/ uk-data-series © Nationwide Building Society

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Videos:

Video 1: Introduction to Session 4 by Martin Lewis: ©MoneySavingExpert https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

Video 2: Understanding Mortgages animation: ©MoneySavingExpert https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/

Audio:

Audio 1: Mortgage choices: ©The Open University

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