Description: This panel discussion, from the April 1982 Society of Actuaries meeting in Orlando, presented a discussion on development as of 1982 in the education and exam system. Topics included: 1. Goals, purposes and objectives of actuarial examination and education. 2. Critique of the current system. 3. Role of the academic community in actuarial education. 4. Interrelationship of the Society's E&E structure with that of other actuarial bodies. 5. Plans and future directions.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session is about fellowship exams from a grader's point of view. Topics included: • How examination questions are selected • How to write a better examination • How exams are graded

Description: Presented at June 1985 Spring Meeting. This session presented the methods by which the E&E system strives to meet the educational needs of Canadian students, and allowed discussion as to whether the effort is successful and sufficient.

Description: Full version of International Section News, June 2001, Issue No. 25.

Description: Full version of International Section News, February 2000, Issue No. 21.

Description: Students returning to their companies after experiencing total immersion in an actuarial seminar at Northeastern University have been enthusiastic about the value of the seminars to them. Now the staff at Northeastern has decided to share the study materials with the actuarial world, and has published a series of study manuals for the actuarial exams. It appears to me, after examining the Part 7 manual, that candidates will not necessarily have to buy the manuals to stay in the competition to pass the exams. The manuals may, however, help students who are not sure how to approach the syllabus for a particular exam.

Description: Presented at June and prior 1986 Spring Meetings. This session discussion is about important ideas under the heading 'Flexible Education Proposal' to improve the Society of Actuaries' education and examination system.

Description: This open forum, which occurred at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., discussed the future of traditional Society of Actuaries meetings. Topics discussed included: 1. What do Society meetings offer? 2. What else could they offer? 3. What is offered elsewhere in my specialty? 4. How could Society of Actuaries meetings be made more meaningful? A discussion of the special interest sections and seminars on special interest topics was also discussed.

Description: This article reports on a meeting of the officers of the Education and Examination Committee with Laval University faculty to review how the university program supported and correlated with the SOA examination process.

Description: This paper outlines the limitations inherent in current actuarial pricing techniques and describes a macro pricing process for product development that can produce optimal decisions in competitive environments. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1991, Vol. 43.