The ifs School of Finance has been offering membership since 1879.

The ifs School of Finance has 19 Regional Networks – 10 in the UK and 11 in international and offshore locations.

As part of its Academic Community Development Programme, the ifs has institutional recognition to provide Staff and Educational Development Association ( SEDA ) recognised awards.

* ifs School of Finance, a UK based, non profit making body providing financial education.

The ifs works closely with the financial services industry to provide learning for financial services providers.

1997-A new brand the Institute of Financial Services ( ifs ) is introduced to reflect the evolving nature of banking and insurance activities to the wider financial services sector.

2005-The ifs acquires ProShare ( UK ) Ltd. ifs Proshare ( UK ) is a not-for-profit organisation committed to encouraging employee share ownership and providing workplace financial education.

The ifs also offer financial professionals Continuing Professional Development support through its executive education programmes.

14-19 qualifications-The ifs financial capability package aimed at the 14 – 19 age group is available to all schools and colleges in the UK.

The ifs School of Finance runs events to support personal development, facilitate networking needs and celebrate excellence within financial services.

Research workshops-The ifs research workshop series provides an opportunity to keep up to date with topical issues in the financial services industry.

" The Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way, shape or form — no ifs, ands, or buts ," he said.

Positioning itself as a ‘ business school for finance ’, the ifs aims to provide industries with financially skilled, effective and competent workforce.

2001-The ifs is the first educational body in the sector to provide electronic assessment for its regulatory qualifications, which now include the Certificate for Financial Advisers and the Certificate of Regulated General Insurance.

The ifs is the only provider of GCSE, AS and A level equivalent qualifications in personal finance for students aged 14 – 19, all of which are accredited by Ofqual.

The department was awarded two educational excellence awards in 2008 and 2009 for its work in this field by the ifs: school of finance.

In descriptive linguistics, the term was first introduced by Leonard Bloomfield to account for uses of synsemantic words as autosemantic in sentences such as I'm tired of your ifs and buts.

It also seeks to stimulate the actor's imagination through the use of " as ifs.

The ifs CeFS and Dip FS qualifications also carry UCAS Tariff points.

: On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but — which means that we must include all the doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands, and buts.

These are a lot of ifs, and it may be wisest to simply say that Lucretius was born in the 90s BC and died in the 50s BC.

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The ifs School of Finance, founded in 1879 as the Institute of Bankers, is a registered educational charity incorporated by Royal Charter.

2004-Launch of ifs KnowledgeBank, an online library and information resource.

Changes to the Royal Charter are approved by the Privy Council and the organisation is renamed the ifs School of Finance.

2010-Granted Taught Degree-Awarding Powers ( TDAP ) by the Privy Council, the ifs is now able to award both undergraduate and taught postgraduate degrees in its own right without ratification from a third-party university.

The ifs provision includes qualifications from GCSE equivalent through to postgraduate degree level, as well as regulatory qualifications including CeMAP, CeFA and DipFA.

* ifs KnowledgeBank-an online library and information resource.

Our surplus from foreign business transactions has in recent years fallen substantially short of the expenditures we make abroad to maintain our military establishments overseas, to finance private investment, and to provide assistance to the less developed nations.

His own inner voice, which should tell him what not to do, has not developed.

But a realization that each group has much of substance to learn from the other also developed, and a strong conviction grew that each had insights and dimensions to contribute to ethically acceptable solutions of urgent political issues.

She has the small, highly developed body of a prime athlete, and holds in contempt the `` girls who just move sex ''.

A high-speed shutter has been developed in order to permit photographic observation of any portion of the electrical wire explosion.

Notable in this category are the Jupiter and Thor intermediate range ballistic missiles, which have been successfully developed, produced, and deployed, but the relative importance of which has diminished with the increasing availability of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile.

A new spinning take-up machine has been developed to facilitate the use of our take-up machine in the production of thermoplastic yarns.

A project for the Air Force has been completed in which the NAIR infrared detecting device was developed for area monitoring of noxious or dangerous gases.

By combining the talents of a medical man, Dr. Aterman, a biophysicist, Mr. Berkely, and an electronics expert, Dr. Zworykin, this novel technique has been developed which promises to open broad avenues to understanding life processes.

At the University of Washington Medical School, the electronics group has developed the `` Respiratory Gas Analyzer '' shown in Fig. 3.

Recently, for example, a paranoid woman's large-scale philosophizing, in the session, about the intrusive curiosity which has become, in her opinion, a deplorable characteristic of mid-twentieth-century human culture, developed itself, before the end of the session, into a suspicion that I was surreptitiously peeking at her partially exposed breast, as indeed I was.

We are acutely aware that yours is a society which, in spite of several wars and many privations, has developed itself into one of the foremost nations of the world.

-- The theory of elasticity of Gaussian networks has been developed on a more general basis and the equations of state relating variables of pressure, volume, temperature, stress and strain have been precisely formulated.

A simple process for the preparation of nearly monodisperse polystyrene of predictable molecular weight has been developed.

Modern physics has developed the theory that all matter consists of minute waves of energy.

High motivation towards higher education must start early enough so that by the time the boy or girl reaches grade 9 he or she has at least developed those basic skills which are essential for academic work.

Vocational training which holds no hope that the skill developed will be in fact a marketable skill becomes just another school `` chore '' for those whose interest in their studies has begun to falter.

Time perspective -- the ability to plan for the future and to postpone gratifying immediate wants in order to achieve long-range objectives -- is more easily developed if, from infancy on, the individual has been able to rely on and trust people and the world in which she lives.

Erikson has noted that, unless this trust developed early, the time ambivalence experienced, in varying degree and temporarily, by all adolescents ( as a result of their remembering the more immediate gratification of wants during childhood, while not yet having fully accepted the long-range planning required by adulthood ) may develop into a more permanent sense of time diffusion.

The next day I visited International Christian College which has developed since the war under the leadership of people who were interned and who know Japan well.

But he has shown a sixth-sense ability to spot, recruit and excite able researchers, and has developed unexpected talents in fund raising and speech-making.

New York State has what is probably the most advanced of these co-operative systems, so well developed that it has become a model for others to follow.

In doing away with the tea tray, the elephants and the giant tortoise, science has developed a series of rationally defensible explanations of the cosmos.