Major achievement
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Step 5 – Major achievement
There are four types of major achievement. You need only choose one which must be attained after you have passed the Advanced Diploma/ACII. If you change your mind about the major achievement that you wish to submit for Fellowship, please advise the FAS. This is particularly important if you want to study for another professional or managerial qualification: you must check that it is appropriate.
Confidentiality
Many work-related projects and dissertations include information of a sensitive commercial nature. Where this is the case, you may change names and references (eg, to ‘company x’ or ‘product y’) provided that the actual names and references are disclosed on a separate sheet of paper which will be made available to the FAS only, not to assessors. We may undertake investigations, as considered appropriate, to ensure the validity of the information.
Publication
Please bear in mind the fact that, if you are successful, the CII has the right to publish your major achievement, put it in the CII library for public view or place on its website.
Categories for assessment
The categories for assessment used by the Fellowship Assessment Board to judge each major achievement are set out below. Please read these very carefully – many people fail to be elected to Fellowship because they do not observe the rules. Remember, you only need one from the four major achievement options listed below.
You should undertake one of the following options:
Example
Lucy works as a regional underwriting manager within a large commercial insurer. She joined from university onto a Graduate Training Programme and, as part of her training, completed the Advanced Diploma in Insurance, attaining the designation ‘ACII’.
Upon completing five years’ work experience, she applied for and was awarded ‘Chartered Insurer’ status.
Lucy is keen to continue to advance her career. She sees ongoing structured professional development as essential to the fulfilment of her ambitions.
Three years after completing the Advanced Diploma, Lucy decides to enter for CII Fellowship. This involves her meeting a number of requirements related to advanced professional development:
| Continuing professional development (CPD) |
Submission of three years’ CPD records |
Business ethics programme (BEP) |
Completing a distance learning course providing a framework for the ethical and moral issues that she faces in the workplace |
Statement of personal achievement (SPA) |
The submission of a statement summarising the learning and development she has gained through the Fellowship programme and how her future prospects will be helped through her achievement |
Major achievement |
Undertaking one of the following: an insurance-related dissertation; a work-based project report; a further academic or professional qualification; or a portfolio of published works |
For her ‘major achievement’, Lucy decides to obtain an additional professional qualification: the CII/Cass Business School MSc in Insurance and Risk Management.
Through the MSc Lucy explores the growing relationship between insurance, risk management and financial services developing her technical understanding.
As a holder of the Advanced Diploma, Lucy can take a fast-track route to completion of the MSc via exemptions from four of the compulsory eight core modules. She must take four core modules, select five elective modules from a choice of fifteen, and complete a dissertation.
As a part-time student she completes this in eighteen months, rather than the two years it will typically take non-Advanced Diploma holders.
Lucy completes her MSc and fulfils all the Fellowship requirements. She is awarded the Fellowship on completion and, as a member of the CII, is invited to apply to use the designation ‘FCII’. She is also entitled to use the designation ‘MSc’.
