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Thirteen newly qualified financial advisers have celebrated becoming the latest graduates of the Quilter Financial Adviser School (QFAS), successfully passing our Level 4 Diploma in Financial Advice (DipFA).

LIBOR (the London Interbank Offer Rate ) will not be supported by the FCA after 2021, just a little over three years away. Trillions of dollars of assets are benchmarked against LIBOR, which is supposed to measure the cost at which banks can borrow short-term and unsecured in the London market. Find out more.

University was once seen as the only path for skilled employment, but now there are more options available, including degree apprenticeships, which offer a way into industry, combining classroom learning with practical experiences, and apprenticeship students get a degree out of it at the end. Both university and degree apprenticeships have comparative advantages, and which one is better depends on the person in question.

Sometimes, when you start your university course, you may find yourself unhappy because the course is very different from what you expected. If you find yourself in that situation, there is the option to change course at the same university and study something else.