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Hi Police Dog

Thanks for the info. CFA has an office in London, surely that would hurdle the criteria? I don’t see anything in the eligibility that the CFA has to have classrooms. Just not sure where we ‘attend’ the Program, seems and ambigious term. Small obstacle.

The personalised email address issue would be easily solved by someone at CFA London providing themselves as a contact point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFA_Institute

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Woooo ommthree, don’t be so
quick to reject the query. I don’t think it is a clear no at all. Maybe you have never worked in law. Interpretation
is fundamental, and here the rules are quite open. I understand the purpose of
the arrangement; however that does not affect the eligibility of the Institute
to apply. The approval would come down to how the Institute presents it’s application to the TfL.

Criteria for the education institution to be registered:
– is
located in Greater London? Yes the CFA is located in London, it has an office here.

– provides
to the student directly the full-time and part-time courses that the student
attends. Here there is no definition of attend; accordingly it
is open to interpretation (unless there is statue that backs the discount travel program which would provide a definition). Considering we are recommended to study a minimum of
30 hours per week, we must ‘attend’ something. An easy argument to mount would
be that study is generally undertaken at a location outside of a candidate’s home
therefore requiring travel (e.g. libraries). The provision of services provided by the CFA in
London is further evidenced by testing locations situated within Greater
London.
Material is provided ‘directly’ to candidates via the learning materials issued
upon enrolment.

– I read Clause 6 as the ‘nominated’ contact(s) must have an @cfainstitue email
address, not the travel card applicants. Therefore each candidate would not
require an @cfainstitute email address to apply. You must establish the context
from the surround clauses. In this instance, the surround clauses are referring
to the education institutions application, not their cohorts applications.

Criteria for a student to apply:
– The CFA is a postgraduate certification with recommended 30+ hours of study
per week (therefore it clears the TfL’s criteria of requiring 15 hours of
postgraduate study per week). There is no requirement for postgraduate studies
to have contact hours.

– There are no
criteria here suggesting we all need an @cfainstitute email address to register
for a discounted travel card.

The biggest problem would evidently be CFA be willing to put in the application
for registration. I think given the City’s dependency and encouragement of
financial services, I don’t think the registration of the Institute as a
recognised education provider would be at all difficult. Moreover, with accreditation
for discounted travel in London (and potentially other cities) would clearly
encourage marginal potential candidates to undertake the course resulting in an
increase in enrolments. What more incentive would the CFA want?

Can I sway your interpretations?

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Have you ever seen this Australian newsreader? I think he sums it up brilliantly; give where and what you can. All (most) charities are deserving and try not to waste water when others are desperately trying to source it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la86Dr4Nzpw

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