Interest in AMP's Horizons Academy builds
AMP's Horizons Academy, which aims to provide training, development and career progression to planners entering the industry, has seen its biggest intake yet.
The academy has seen 18 intakes of students over the five years since its inception, producing 478 graduates, but the 19th intake saw a record 46 planners sign up, according to Horizons director Tim Steele.
The cohort, which is now in its fifth week, was big enough that AMP decided to divide the curriculum into streams for the first time.
"The interactive nature of the workshop forum makes it difficult to deliver a meaningful experience to 46 people at once, but if we deliver it over a couple of streams or break it into a couple of smaller groups we can do that," he said.
Most applicants to the academy now already have some form of undergraduate degree, according to Steele.
Earlier this week Horizons announced a partnership with the University of New South Wales which will make it easier for Horizons graduates to go on and attain a financial planning undergraduate or masters degree.
Steele said although the program has evolved and continues to evolve, there had been no changes made to specifically retrofit the program to the needs of the university.
However, he anticipated that there would be further evolution to the Horizons course based on new knowledge resulting from the partnership.
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