Comment - Professional standards are needed, but who is setting them?

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Paul Nixon , formerly of Gradus UK , says he regularly ran into conflict with the Financial Services Skills Council when he ran a graduate recruitment agency for the financial services sector several years ago.

Looking again at the ‘proposed’ examination reforms, Nixon questions whether anything has really changed and just who should be setting the standards. Comment: Re: Exploding the myths of examination reform I read with interest your article on the above and happily it coincided with your publishing at the same time the results from the Edinburgh University Law graduates achieving an average mark of 97%, having used a self study course to prepare for the FP 1 examination. My involvement with the Financial Services Industry stopped a couple of years ago - through frustration in tryin...

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