The phrase "finance programme" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a structured course or set of activities related to financial education or management.
Example: "The university offers a comprehensive finance programme that covers investment strategies and financial analysis."
Alternatives: "financial program" or "financial curriculum."
At my own school, Chicago Booth, which is best known for its finance programme, entrepreneurship has, for a few years now, been the second most popular concentration.
"Physical climate change impacts are a systemic risk on a massive scale," said Ben Caldecott, the director of the sustainable finance programme at the University of Oxford.
The Scottish government has yet to agree the tuition fee and student finance programme for 2012, although it is likely that Scottish students studying in Scotland will continue to pay no tuition fees.
But while the UK joins its European peers in doubling its contribution, Maria Athena Ronquillo-Ballesteros, director of the World Resources Institute sustainable finance programme, noted that it came from a much smaller base.
The school's sustainable finance programme said overcapacity, combined with global moves to cut carbon emissions and the shift towards more cost-effective renewables, could leave the country with a stranded investment in coal plants worth $56bn "The expansion of coal in Japan appears to be predicated on a benign environment for incumbent utilities," the programme's director, Ben Caldecott, said.
In December we reported that Germany-based Bidmanagement, the company behind Adspert, had raised funding from the ProFIT finance programme, the early-stage investment arm of Investitionsbank Berlin.
Members' contributions finance programmes, for instance to buy land, restore degraded habitat and protect species.
Faculty, students and alumni from the school's finance programmes travel to West Africa twice a year to provide this education and backing.
And that has turned out to be the most stable way to finance programmes.Broadcast-television advertising has suffered from audience fragmentation as channels have proliferated.
North Carolina, for example, uses part of its share of a 1998 tobacco settlement between the states and four big cigarette companies to finance programmes for people who want to find new work in the state's busy biotechnology industry.
Via Save the Children's refugee appeal, he tells me, it will finance programmes designed to help Syrian asylum seekers at every stage of their journey, from the camps at the borders to their new lives in the west.
