Finance graduates may be interested to hear that a postgraduate course in Islamic finance will now be available at The University of Dundee.The qualification has been created to allow staff at banks to cater for the needs of Muslim customers and at the moment only the Islamic Bank of Britain sticks to the teachings of [...]

Lighthouse, an independent financial guidance and wealth management group, has commended the Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) for its work on a diploma.Entitled the Diploma in Investment Planning, if it gets the thumbs up from the Financial Services Skills Council it will mean staff will be able to gain a qualification that is based [...]

Graduates want employers to ditch their minimum requirements of a 2:1 degree, according to a new poll.More than 600 students and banking graduates took part in a survey for Milkround.com and it revealed that 58 per cent want the prerequisite scrapped.Spokesperson for the organisation Mike Barnard remarked: "Graduates who don’t have a 2.1 degree will [...]

Anyone who is currently preparing for an interview for a finance graduate scheme may be well advised to take notice of the Bank of England’s recent rate announcements. The organisation’s Monetary Police Committee revealed the results of a vote that concluded the official bank rate paid on commercial reserves should be maintained at 0.5 per [...]

Having a degree is "pointless", according to 10 per cent of employers, while 61 per cent of businesses value experience over academic qualifications.That is according to a new survey of more than 1,500 managing directors across the UK conducted by StudentGems.With more than 3 million people currently studying for degrees across the UK and unemployment [...]

The number of people securing professional qualifications from university could reduce as a result of proposed reductions in government funding for universities. <br/><br/>Peter Mandelson has written to the Higher Education Funding Council for England informing it that funding in the country will be reduced by &#163;398 million for 2010&#150;11. <br/><br/>Warnings have been sounded that such [...]

Degree courses in the future might be ‘fast-tracked’ and reduced to two years, business secretary Lord Mandelson has suggested today as annual funding for universities is cut by £533 million (December 23rd).He said that the shorter courses could help universities save money, free up teaching resources and recruit students who are keen to limit the [...]

Getting a university degree may be worth far less over an individual’s lifetime than previously thought, according to Lord Browne, the man tasked with leading the government’s review of higher education fees.He estimated that over a graduate’s lifetime, having a degree would lead to them earning £100,000 more than they would have done otherwise.This figure [...]

Getting a professional qualification is one of the best ways to find a better job, says Ruth Spellman, chief executive of the Chartered Management Institute.Speaking to Thisismoney.co.uk, she said that it is natural that as the year comes to a close, many are reassessing their careers and looking for better jobs, and Ms Spellman offered [...]

Professional qualifications body the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) has signed a groundbreaking deal with the World Bank this week, which could boost the availability of finance graduate jobs.The arrangement will mean that people with a financial background going to work for the World Bank will be able to benefit from CIMA’s range of [...]

A government strategy launched this week could bring a better focus on skills in UK businesses and allow firms to have more of a say on qualifications, a financial sector skills organisation has said. The National Skills Academy for Financial Services (NSAFS) this week welcomed government plans to shake up job training in its ‘skills [...]