By Sandra Davie

INSURANCE agents will continue to be offered the Master's in Business Administration programme, despite it being run by an unaccredited university.

The Great Eastern Life Planners Association (GELPA) and Financial Services Managers Association (FSMA) said this in their letters to The Straits Times following news that some graduates were scandalised to find out that International University (IU), Vienna, did not have accreditation from any educational body.

The two groups argued that the one-year part-time course has been customised for the agents. It was not open to the public, but its members only. The $12,000 fee collected from each agent was to recover the costs of running the programme, their spokesmen said.

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