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Article: Testing time: two pages on the Financial Services Skills Council. Here, it sets out its aims to boost self-development, business awareness and customer service and set up a new exam framework exams while on page 60 industry figures voice their concerns.(Training & Competence)
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- Money Marketing
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- April 1, 2004
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The Financial Services Skills Council is taking forward a skills' agenda for the whole of the industry. Our corporate strategy and business plans are ambitious and, given the challenges facing our sector, they have to be.
Our priorities are grounded in the knowledge that the demand for high-level skills and increased productivity will be driven by increased competition at home and abroad and by the urgent need to restore consumer confidence. Pressures on firms to reach new performance standards will be mirrored in pressures on education providers to produce rapid and flexible responses in what they offer employers.
We are beginning to develop our ...