International Marine Insurance Courses to be held in Academy
Early in 2010, a meeting between Marsh and Marjorie Eade of the Financial Industry Group (Fig) in Norfolk raised the possibility of finding better, bigger facilities to hold their international marine insurance courses within Norwich.
At Fig's suggestion and with its assistance, Marsh's senior marine lecturer Stephen Harris met with City College principal, Dick Palmer, to explore using City College's new superb St. Andrew's House facilities in the centre of the city to host these courses next year. Marsh and City College both saw the huge potential in showcasing the "state-of-the-art" conference facilities Norwich can provide by holding these Marsh marine courses in St. Andrew's House.
In September 2010, a day of the Marsh marine insurance course was held at St. Andrew's House for the first time, and was attended by delegates from Russia, Greece, Switzerland, South Korea, China, Belgium and the UK (from London, Manchester and Norwich). The views of the delegates, including major shipowners, international insurers and brokers, were highly complimentary. The intention is that St. Andrews House will now be the venue for all Marsh's 2011 Marine Insurance courses.
Stephen Harris, who travels globally on behalf of Marsh to provide marine insurance training courses, and has already done so this year in Washington DC, Tokyo,Busan (South Korea), London and Singapore, is convinced that the facilities provided in Norwich bythe Norwich National Skills Academy are as good as any he has seen anywhere around the world. Stephen will have no hesitation in inviting delegates from every corner of the globe to come to Norwich four times next year for these prestigious marine insurance training courses.
With the superb facilities provided by City College, Stephen's view is that delegates will leave Norwich in the future realising that the city is a financial centre, with "state-of-the art" conference facilities and a clear commercial vision for the future.
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