What is the IFS Center for Educational Excellence?
The IFS Center is a workforce initiative developed by Connecticut’s insurance and financial services businesses for insurance and financial services businesses to help address both the industry’s short and long term workforce needs. Its purpose is to provide the skills-training required for individuals to enter into and advance within the industry specifically for high-growth occupations such as financial managers & analysts, financial sales agents, accountants & auditors, underwriting and actuaries.
The Connecticut state community colleges will design and deliver training in the foundation and relevant intermediate level courses and act as a training broker for the advanced certification courses. The state’s college and university system and appropriate private academic institutions will develop and deliver training in some intermediate and a majority of the advanced tracks.
The curriculum that is developed and implemented through this collaborative effort will be disseminated into the public workforce system through CTWorks One-Stop programs. The IFS Center model will also be disseminated elsewhere in the country for replication as a means of addressing these same (and other) labor market demands in other regions where there is a high concentration of insurance and financial services industry workers.
IFS Related Education in Connecticut