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Regulator to offer free e-learning programme for trustees

The Pensions Regulator is developing a free e-learning programme for trustees to help address the need for on-going training.

The regulator carried out research earlier this year which showed that although less than half of trustees received regular on-going training, the vast majority would welcome the opportunity for e-learning and 90 per cent said they would take this up if it was backed by the regulator.

The e-learning programme will form the basis of a new qualification for trustees to be launched by the Pensions Management Institute in April 2006. This voluntary qualification, which will be submitted to the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority for accreditation, will replace the current Trustee Certificate offered by the Pensions Management Institute.

The Pensions Regulator says that successful completion of all the modules will help trustees meet the requirements for trustee knowledge and understanding set out in the 2004 Pensions Act.

The first tranche of the e-learning programme is expected in January 2006 and will cover units one and two of the syllabus: the responsibility of trustees in relation to trust law and pensions law. The remainder of the programme will be delivered later in 2006.

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