Should the UK follow the UAE’s qualifications lead?
Matthew Connell, director of policy and public affairs at the Chartered Insurance Institute, considers whether the UK should follow the United Arab Emirates' lead and define competence according to a holistic, professionally-designed syllabus rather than rely on a list of bullet points in the Financial Conduct Authority's rule book?
In his article on The Economics of Insurance, which appeared in the first edition of the Chartered Insurance Institute’s Journal back in 1898, John M. Candlish wrote: “….we are members of an
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