adminSunday to Tuesday under the theme “Raising the bar . . . A journey to excellence”.
Topics to be discussed during the summer school include: Business Fundamentals for the future Economy; Marketing of insurance products and services; Professional development – does it mean to you?;
The diminution of value for pension funds – the issues and the funeral assurance and services industry; Ethics and Controls critical for sustainable recovery; How to increase insurance penetration in Africa – lessons from the 2011 AIO conference and the ethics and professionalism in the insurance industry.
Speakers will include IIZ president Mr Simon Chapereka, Mr Kenias Mafukidze and Mr Lovemore Madavo.
Others are Mr Talent Maziwisa, Mr Paul Razunguzwa, Mr John Mapani, Mrs Eldrette Shereni and Dr Mandla Nyathi.
The summer school is a development programme for junior to middle managers in the insurance industry.
The summer school comes as the insurance sector has turned the corner on the back of efforts to resuscitate the economy.
Due to this revival it has become critical to continuously train professionals to make up for the brain drain that hit the industry during the past 10 years as well as impart new skills to insurance practitioners in order for them to deal with new challenges in the industry.
The IIZ has the mandate of training and developing insurance professionals in the country.
It currently offers an insurance diploma and Associateship diploma under its Associateship programme.
The Associateship diploma is recognised by the National University of Science and Technology for entry into the Master of Science in Risk Management and Insurance Degree programme.
In addition, holders of the Associateship diploma are eligible for admission as Associates of the Insurance Institute of South Africa.
The institute is expecting to launch the Fellowship programme, that is a notch higher than the Associateship programme, soon.
Bongani Ndlovu