Edinburgh Uni students gain 97% average in FP1 exam

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Students at Edinburgh University School of Law have become the first students in the UK to study the Financial Planning Certificate 1 (FP1), as part of the financial services module of their Legal Diploma.

Moreover, results achieved by the 116 students at the end of last year suggest all but three passed the financial services and regulation mobule of the Financial Planning Certificate with an average pass rate of 97.4% - substantially higher than the current UK standard of 62.2% within the financial services community, according to the Chartered Insurance Institute. Such high marks are largely as a result of the training methods, suggest Elaine Tyre, deputy director of the Edinburgh University diploma course as students adopted the ed. LEARN software produced in a collaboration between th...

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