EDUCATION IN INSURANCE

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26393, 11 April 1951, Page 8

EDUCATION IN INSURANCE

WORK OF CHARTERED INSTITUTE Mr W. A. Copeman, president-elect of the Chartered Insurance Institute, London, will be one of th principal visitors to the conference of the Insurance Institute of New Zealand in Christchurch to-day. The Chartered Insurance Institute was primarily concerned with education in the profession, Mr Copeman said last evening. It now hau about 40.000 members in the British Isles, and last year there were about 10,000 candidates for its examinations. Although no institutions for instruction were maintained, the service was far-reaching. The institute had its own director of education anu a tuition committee who distributed a great deal of material by correspondence. The institute published its own textbooks. Studies covered a very wide field—from physiology for life insurance to science subjects for fire insurance. There were other more narrowly specialised departments such as livestock and aviation, the lat-r emphasising the most recent developments in flying. The domestic affairs of th- insurance business were not touched by the institute, Mr copeman said For instance. when there was a threat of nationalisation o' industrial insurance, the representations of the companies were made through anoth -i body Mr Copeman is on a business trip as overseas accident manager of the Norwich Union Company, and wherever he has travelled he has visited national insurance institutes which are affilia-’ ted to the parent body. The full resources of his institute were available for the assistance of members abroad, he said. Mr Copeman has visited India, Malaya, and Australia, and will return to Britain througl. North America.