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ICAEW seeks new head of education and training

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21st Jan 2005
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The ICAEW is looking for a new director of training and education after the departure of Brian Chiplin.

The institute confirmed that Chiplin retired at the end of November due to ill health. Aude Leonetti, Head of Operations, has taken on responsibility for leading the directorate while a replacement is sought.

Chiplin joined the institute from a business school background in 1999 and is credited with rationalising its syllabus and basing it on a model more like an MBA. He moved the syllabus away from the tradition of "cramming" abstract principles to focus more on developing business advisory skills through final year case study work. He also set out the new CPD regime but won't be there to see the reforms through.

The news of Chiplin's departure emerged in an Any Answers posting during the Christmas period for Ginger Group activist Jeff Wooller, who saw the move as a sign of growing chaos surrounding the institute's plans to merge with CIMA and CIPFA. If the ICAEW's Eric Anstee takes over the chief executive's post in the new body, might one of the others have been promised the top education role, Wooller wondered.

ICAEW council memberand Society of Professional Accountants chief Peter Mitchell believed Chiplin's retirement was due more to ill health than internal politics.

"There was no reason to go - he was doing a first rate job," Mitchell said. "He got the ICAEW back on track and led us to a better methodology for training.

"He was the architect of the CPD scheme, which follows the outline of the Practice Assurance scheme. We wanted to see Practice Assurance that could relate to what practices are actually doing. Surely practices could ensure that CPD relates to what they're doing too?"

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