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The latest and greatest info from ILScorp!ALBERTA EXAMINATION CANDIDATES – CANCELLATION NOTICE
The World Health Organization has declared a global pandemic caused by the Coronavirus (COVID19).
The AIC is asking for your assistance in helping to contain the outbreak.
In order to ensure the safety of both exam candidates and staff, AIC asks for your cooperation. The AIC has decided to temporarily suspend all examinations for a 2 week period and will re-evaluate at that time.
What is the Alberta General Insurance Level 1 Data Validation Project?
Also known as GLQP, the project is intended to assist educators in tailoring course material/delivery to prospective general insurance level 1 examination registrants through providing success rates specific to each provider and course delivery method. The project aims to ensure consistent education delivery and to improve student success rates.
Alberta General Level 1 GLQP
s of January 01 2020, all students must study current educational materials from an approved General Level 1 Educator in order to be certified as having met the prerequisites to write the Alberta General Insurance Level 1 Licensing Exam. You can no longer challenge the Alberta General Level 1 Licensing Exam. This new certification format is known as the Level 1 General Licensing Qualification Program (GLQP). Why implement the General Licensing Qualification Program? The intention of candidate certification in order to register and write the licensing exam, is to ensure competency of new entrants into the General Insurance field. Low pass-rates have been an ongoing subject of concern with educators and industry stakeholders. A change in program approach is now being delivered to ensure consistent education delivery and to improve student success rates.
New Course Equivalencies For Alberta Level 1
The GIC has approved the following course equivalencies for the following levels of certificates of authority:
1) Alberta General level 1:
a. Proof of passing the Canadian Accredited Insurance Broker (‘CAIB’) 1 and 2 courses with proof that the last exam was passed within 12 months of the submission of an application for licensing to the AIC,
or
b. Proof of having the Full CAIB Designation with proof that the last exam was passed within 12 months of the submission of an application for licensing to the AIC.
PROETHICS – Second mandatory course in Compliance
If you are licensed with the CSF, the CSF ProEthics course must be completed by November 30th, 2019.
This mandatory online training course is only offered and available on the CSF’s website.
The PDUs related to the CSF’s mandatory course on compliance ProEthics can only be awarded once during the two reference periods covered by the course, that is, between the launch of the training activity in November 2016 and the end of the current period on November 30, 2019.
Happy Thanksgiving! We’ll be Back on Tuesday
The ILScorp offices will be closed Monday, Oct. 14 as we take some time to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday. We’ll be back Tuesday morning, ready to take your calls, answer your questions and register you for online insurance programs.
You can also register for our insurance training programs online, anytime, at ILScorp.com
Have a great long weekend, everyone!
When you hear the word “ethics” what comes to mind?
More emphasis has been placed on discussing the ethical decisions that brokers have to make daily in their dealings with other brokerage staff, their clients and the insurance companies they represent. Ethics is all about doing the right thing in a particular situation. As insurance brokers, our clients, insurers and the public would expect us to do nothing less. When you hear the word “ethics” what, if anything, comes to mind? If you said that ethics involves doing the right thing – making the right decision – when in a given situation that offers other possibilities, you are on the right track.
ILScorp Offices closed Monday for Labour Day
Why do they call it Labor Day? For many, Labour Day signals the end of summer, but Labour Day is an annual holiday to celebrate the achievements of workers. Labour Day has its origins in the labour union movement, specifically the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest. Happy Labour Day Canada! ILScorp offices will be closed Monday September 2, 2019 to celebrate Labour Day. Our offices will be open on Tuesday September 3. Hope you had a great summer and enjoy the long weekend! Purchase or renew your CE Course Subscription to complete your mandatory CE requirements online now.
Insurance CE Courses
What’s included in your ILScorp Insurance CE course subscription? Your Insurance CE Course Subscription gives you many options for obtaining your mandatory Continuing Education (CE) credits and for enhancing your knowledge of the insurance industry. All CE courses are provincially accredited and written by insurance and financial services experts. Courses are completed entirely online with new courses being added regularly at no extra charge.