FSSC launches financial services degree

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The Financial Services Skills Council (FSSC) will launch a foundation degree in financial services in September 2006 and is calling on industry experts to get involved in developing the degree's framework.

The FSSC says the degree will initially cover banking and insurance, with other areas added in the future. Sam Rees-Adams, education manager at the FSSC, says the other areas could potentially cover any part of the sector but investment is an “obvious area to look at”. The degree will be based on employer requirements in terms of knowledge and skills across the sector and sub-sectors. To develop the degree’s framework, the FSSC is calling for industry experts to participate in steering and working groups. Rees-Adams says the experts could be practitioners offering technical advice, for e...

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