Description: Significant progress has been made in transforming the actuarial profession but it remains untransformed. Universities have been instrumental in training future actuaries and this article is about how the University of Cape Town has been addressing transformation in the actuarial program. The school system in South Africa has struggled to produce the required quality and quantity of school leavers prepared for higher education. This has led to universities having to develop ways to manage this problem. The article discusses the effectiveness of some of the initiatives introduced at UCT.

Description: A brief overview of last year's Education & Research Section Council work, accomplishments and challenges from its outgoing chair.

Description: This article studies the syllabus as a dynamic, interactive teaching tool that informs and is informed by both solutions of complex course problems and student difficulties with these problems.

Description: Report on a panel presentation in which options to maintain the solvency of Social Security are discussed.

Description: The Education and Research Section has organized three sessions for the 2006 SOA Annual Meeting to be held October 15th – 18th in Chicago at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers. These sessions include the traditional E&R hosted continental breakfast, as well as, panel discussions on Financial Economics and techniques for selecting representative scenarios.

Description: Article from Expanding Horizons newsletter, December 2004 that talks about the new SOA's member-focused business model, in which the practice area and section structures are joining together to generate broader membership input and deliver more value to the membership and the profession.

Description: 2004 June issue of Expanding Horizons newlsetter

Description: This article introduces the Joint Mathematics Meetings for January 2007. From Expanding Horizons, November 2006.

Description: The Casualty Actuarial Society and the Society Of Actuaries would like to announce the recipients of the 2006–2007 Ph.D. Grant Competition.

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