In our recent Mental Fitness webinar series, we share practical guidance on how best to maintain your health. Kaplan knows it is important for our learners to be mentally fit and to feel confident, especially as we look to return to life outside of the lockdown.

To support awareness and understanding we created a series of webinars, sharing practical guidance and discussing key topics to help you to adapt and strengthen your own mental fitness.

Joined by expert mental health speaker, Ross McWilliam of Mindset Pro, we cover the transition from working from home, foundations for long term mental fitness, and how to develop your emotional confidence.

This three part series aimed to help us prepare for both short and long term challenges, whilst gaining healthy habits to aid in strengthening overall mental fitness.

Key topics

Episode 1: Mental fitness now: how to adapt to the transition from WFH to hybrid or office working.

Covering:

• How stress can both help and hinder our performance
• The wide variation of COVID responses and their validity
• Behaviour in the workplace: listen to understand rather than listening to interrupt

Episode 2: Mental fitness for the long term: foundations to build upon

Covering:

• The five pillars of well-being
• How to avoid reaching burn-out
• Employing proactive coping strategies

Episode 3: Gaining emotional confidence: overcoming Imposter Syndrome and how to maximise performance

Covering:

• Recognising and managing Imposter Syndrome
• How to maintain self-esteem and confidence
• How mental fitness can help you to progress in your professional and personal lives

Interested in finding out more?

After the initial three seminars were so well received, with a 97% score being given for speaker satisfaction, we're running six more webinars. From September we will be running one a month covering relevant and helpful topics to support your mental fitness.

The seminars were useful for confidence in the workplace after a challenging year. Lots of techniques to build on and share.

- seminar delegate

Follow us on social media to stay up to date on the upcoming seminars.

In our recent Mental Fitness webinar series, we share practical guidance on how best to maintain your health. Kaplan knows it is important for our learners to be mentally fit and to feel confident, especially as we look to return to life outside of the lockdown.

To support awareness and understanding we created a series of webinars, sharing practical guidance and discussing key topics to help you to adapt and strengthen your own mental fitness.

Joined by expert mental health speaker, Ross McWilliam of Mindset Pro, we cover the transition from working from home, foundations for long term mental fitness, and how to develop your emotional confidence.

This three part series aimed to help us prepare for both short and long term challenges, whilst gaining healthy habits to aid in strengthening overall mental fitness.

Key topics

Episode 1: Mental fitness now: how to adapt to the transition from WFH to hybrid or office working.

Covering:

• How stress can both help and hinder our performance
• The wide variation of COVID responses and their validity
• Behaviour in the workplace: listen to understand rather than listening to interrupt

Episode 2: Mental fitness for the long term: foundations to build upon

Covering:

• The five pillars of well-being
• How to avoid reaching burn-out
• Employing proactive coping strategies

Episode 3: Gaining emotional confidence: overcoming Imposter Syndrome and how to maximise performance

Covering:

• Recognising and managing Imposter Syndrome
• How to maintain self-esteem and confidence
• How mental fitness can help you to progress in your professional and personal lives

Interested in finding out more?

After the initial three seminars were so well received, with a 97% score being given for speaker satisfaction, we're running six more webinars. From September we will be running one a month covering relevant and helpful topics to support your mental fitness.

The seminars were useful for confidence in the workplace after a challenging year. Lots of techniques to build on and share.

- seminar delegate

Follow us on social media to stay up to date on the upcoming seminars.

CFA® Institute announced the cancellation of the London test centre for the December 2020 exam due to local COVID-19 requirements and regulations.

Here’s what you need to know about the December 2020 CFA exam cancellations:

• If your exam has been cancelled, you can register for any 2021 exam date (you cannot register for another location in December).
• If you have been impacted by both a June and December CFA exam cancellation, you qualify for a refund from CFA Institute. You must submit your refund request to them between 7th and 21st December 2020.
• If you currently use Schweser’s 2020 CFA online study materials, we have already extended your access until 15th June 2021 as part of our candidate support program.

We’ve created a video to help you to understand the changes, your study pathway choices and extra study support provided.

Alternatively, if you're short on time, you can find out which sittings you can take when by looking at this handy infographic produced by the CFA Institute.

If you’re currently studying with another prep provider, we’re delighted to give you access to a series of free masterclasses to keep you on track.

If you have any questions, you can drop us an email at citybookings@kaplan.co.uk.

On 4th August, CFA Institute announced changes which will impact Level 2 and 3 candidates in 2021. We wanted to share the latest information with you.

What changes are being made?

• The Level 2 and Level 3 CFA exams will move from paper-based testing to computer-based testing starting in 2021.
• The Level 2 and Level 3 exam will be offered two times per year.
• Level 2 sittings will now be twice a year in May and August
• Level 3 sittings will be twice a year in May and November

Level 1 continues as planned with exams in February, May, August and November.

We’ve created a video to help you to understand the changes and what it means to you. If you have any questions, you can drop us an email at citybookings@kaplan.co.uk.

The end of the exam hall as you know it

- Jonathan Bone, Course Director, Kaplan CFA Program

This year has been challenging for us all, for individuals and businesses.

As a business ourselves we’ve had to adapt and make huge decisions to ensure not only our survival, but the ongoing success of our students and the businesses we work for.

Here’s a short clip from our Apprenticeship Partnerships Director, who explains how we’ve changed, and used already existing methods, to support our clients.

We’ve seen students more engaged with their learning than ever before.

Following government changes to the way smaller employers can organise and pay for Apprenticeships, we thought we’d share the most up to date information.

So here are a series of Youtube “How to” videos, directly uploaded by the ESFA. This offers further insight into the changes that have been made, so you can adapt quickly.

How to...create an account and accept the employer agreement on the apprenticeship service

How to...reserve funding, add an apprentice, and use the recruitment tool

Transition arrangements for smaller employers joining the apprenticeship service.

For any further information or support on the changes to Apprenticeships, please visit our Employers page.