ACCA·特许公认会计师公会与"British Council"合作推进全球ACCA考点的建设

The ACCA has unveiled the new partner to provide its global exam centre network for the introduction of the CBE and paper-based exams - the British Council.

The agreement will mean the British Council will provide a secure network in the UK and in over 100 countries where the Council operates.

This new agreement builds on the long-standing relationship between ACCA and the British Council, who is currently the association’s main exam centre provider for paper-based exams, providing over half of the venues in the ACCA’s international network.

ACCA CEO Helen Brand said: “This new agreement sees the British Council provide ACCA’s future exam centre network In the UK and overseas, exclusively for ACCA students. This deal supports the roll-out of ACCA’s new computer based exams for ACCA’s Fundamentals Skills Level (F5-F9) exams from September 2016 onwards.”

She said that CBEs are an exciting development for ACCA, as it incorporates spread sheets and word processing to better reflect the tasks that students have to do well in the workplace.

Sir Ciaran Devane, CEO of the British Council, said: “The British Council works to build mutual knowledge and understanding between people overseas and people in the UK. A very important part of this work involves building trust and creating opportunities by enabling access to UK education around the world.”

He continued: “We understand the value UK qualifications can bring to individuals in other countries. They open up careers and connect people with like-minded professionals.”

The ACCA’s F5 to F9 start their transition to CBT in September this year, with students’ initially having the choice of CBT and paper exams.

ACCA confirmed that students will have separate test centres for paper and CBE. There will also be CBE centres in the same locations as the paper centres to ensure that as ACCA moves to the new set-up all students will have the same access to a professional British Council exam centre.

Currently ACCA has 324 exam centres internationally. This is a number that changes depending on the number of students sitting exams in each sitting, with centres added and removed as necessary.

关于英国文化教育协会：

英国文化协会（British Council）于1934年成立于英国，致力于促进英国文化、教育、国际关系之拓展和交流，于全球109个国家、两百多座城市设有分部，1943年起在中国大陆、香港及台湾陆续成立办事处，提供英式英语教学、英国期刊、留学情报以及各领域消息、免费咨询等服务，并与外交机构建有合作计划。

英国文化协会在职业教育的合作伙伴有ACCA特许公认会计师公会、CFA特许金融分析师等。