Planning educators band together
Educators in the financial planning industry have banded together to form the Financial Planners Education Association (FPEA).
Respected industry veteran Gwen Fletcher will chair the first meeting of the new association next week. At the moment, there is a working party of 17 members.
The FPEA was formed at the recent inaugural Financial Planning Educators Symposium organised by the University of Western Sydney (UWS), which gathered together more than 100 financial planning education professionals.
Sharon Taylor, coordinator for the Master of Commerce (Financial Planning) at UWS, says she hopes the symposium will become an annual event.
UWS was one of the first universities to offer a specialised financial planning course when it launched a Master of Commerce (Financial Planning) degree in 1996. In response to demand the degree expanded to included a distance learning mode a year later, and there are now over 100 students enrolled in the program with just over two thirds studying externally.
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