Uni grads trained for careers in financial services

Financial Skills Partnership (FSP) will open up its Graduate Foundation College (GFC) to 150 university leavers from 16 October. The centre's ten-week pilot programme will train entrants to RO1 standard and could lead to a six-month paid internship with a small to medium-sized financial advice company in 2013. Paul McCraith, FSP partnership manager, said: "If this pilot scheme is a success, we will be seeking to expand the workshops to cover mortgage advice, paraplanning and wealth management." Tenet, Aviva, the Chartered Insurance Institute, the Department of Work & Pensions, Redl...