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04 August 2021
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The Centre for Gender and Africa Studies is proud to host Prof Gabriele Griffin from Uppsala University as the speaker for the 2021 Biennial Humanities and Gendered Worlds Lecture.
Date: 11 August 2021
Time: 18:00
Platform: Vimeo
More about our speaker:
Prof Griffin is from Gender Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is the coordinator of the Nordforsk-funded centre of excellence, Nordwit, and editor of the ‘Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities’ series (Edinburgh University Press). Her research interests centre on contemporary women’s writing; women’s cultural production; feminist theatre; and writing diaspora. She has also written extensively on women’s/gender studies as a discipline, as well as on research methods. She has co-ordinated EU-funded research on more sociological topics, such as women’s employment and methodological issues.
Academic addresses financial planning leaders at world summit
2010-05-04
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| Adv. Wessel Oosthuizen, Director of the Centre for Financial Planning Law at the University of the Free State (UFS), addressing financial leaders at the World Financial Planning Summit. |
Adv. Wessel Oosthuizen, Director of the Centre for Financial Planning Law at the University of the Free State (UFS), is chair to four Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB) expert panels that guide the global Certified Financial Planning (CFP) certification programme. At the recent World Financial Planning Summit, held in Taipei in China, he challenged a group of global financial planning leaders to support the formation of a global financial planning body of knowledge with sustainable career-path development opportunities.
He said: “For financial planning to be recognised as a distinct professional practice and a global profession, the financial planning community must establish a universal body of knowledge that is supported by applicable in-depth research.
“We need to establish how professional bodies should collaborate with academia to integrate a more competency-based education and training environment that combines theory with practice. Fostering and promoting comprehensive research in financial planning topics is another key challenge that must be addressed in order to develop a tertiary knowledge framework for the financial planning profession.”
Adv. Oosthuizen, who is playing a big role in providing consistent and rigorous education and assessment tools for financial planning in 2010, said that a bachelor’s degree should be a compulsory minimum requirement for practising financial planners.
About the learning curve between the academic and work environments in the financial planning profession, Adv. Oosthuizen said: “Implementing a career-path model that supports a more structured approach to apprenticeships and supervised practice would complement a specialised financial planning body of knowledge and provide entrants to the profession with the necessary theoretical knowledge and practical experience to offer competent and ethical financial planning.”
The World Financial Planning Summit engaged global leaders of more than 17 financial planning standards-setting bodies, as well as regulators, financial planning educators and other invited guests in a dialogue about the steps needed to gain recognition for financial planning as a distinct, global profession.