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Article: Lia's view.(Comment)(Financial Services Skills Council examination)
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- February 26, 2004
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The Financial Services Skills Council recently called us all in for yet another account of the progress of the examination review.
The review kicked off at the end of the 1990s and everyone will have read CP157, the various interim documents and the latest document, CP194, on which the FSA will give its feedback next month.
We were told in 1999 that a new exam framework for all those who fall under FSA regulation would provide a modular structure, career mobility and international acceptance. Last year, we were told that the Skills Council would deliver the necessary standards. I am afraid we as yet have none of these features in the minimal proposals ...