And this time it is not the children who are finding it difficult to get back to school as the teachers insist on taking the easy option and staying tucked up in bed…. dont even  start me on the whole ..the bulging at the gunnels tesco’s store with panic buying and the bereft of pupils and staff school 100 yds down the road.. no “Back to School” today as my topic refers to me.

After a cracking summer signing up two new clients and working on a bid for a third one (hopefully to be announced sucessful later this month) and laying the foundations for three more clients in Q1 2010 I was really buzzing with positive thoughts for the change in fortunes for the country and delighted we were continuing from strngth to strength. Riding this crest of good feeling I thought it would be good to encourage the team to push themselves both professionally and in part personally with some education. However I am not the kind to push from behind and intend, I hope successfully, to lead/pull from the front, so muggins had a rather natty idea that we would commenc on the CII qualification Chartered Institute of Insurance. Now we are software writers so what on earth are we doing taking qualifications in Insurance… well those who have read my blog and visited our Company’s site morningdata.co.uk will know that all our clients are in the insurance industry.  I have long felt that we should not just be software coders, we should understand what our clients do and traditionally we have done this very well, but what do new clients see when they first meet us. Qualifications are I hope one method to help to prove we do understand.

So tomorrow is nearly upon me, and I now have to not look stupid and actually pass this exam FIT, a 2 hour 100 multiple choice exam of the basic principles of Inusrance, from definitions, wordings, conditions, exclusions, limits, regulatory bodies, Subrogation, contribution, barratry and more. I am now the proud owner of the fact that golf balls are excluded from a Sports Equipment Policy, and that the minimum limit of  an employers’ liability policy is £5m not to menton that a small craft is considered to be 16ft or less!

Now for the most part it is a little like resitting your driving test. Ask the average Broker to sit this exam now and they would probably fail, or spend the week before the exam in permenant desperation as they argue every little point on the basis that “that’s not how it works in practice” - maybe that is the trick - they are only practicing!!!

So now I have to put my mouse where my mouth is and pull off a pass, and yes secretly I do want to pull off a good pass, but at this stage a pas will do I am not picky!

Oh who thought up this bright idea ??