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CIPFA gets thumbs up

CIPFA students are more than happy to hold their future student conferences as part of the main CIPFA conference, according to an online poll. CIPFA was worried that it had pushed PQs into becoming part of the massive annual conference. However, some 79 per cent of those surveyed were in favour of doing the same thing next year, 17% wanted the student conference to be separate and 4% expressed no view. For the first time this year’s student conference was held in Manchester as part of the national event. CIPFA students were able to attend free of charge and all student delegates were invited to a champagne reception at Great John Street Hotel. CIPFA national student forum chair said: “The NSF is grateful for the huge response to the survey – we received a lot of helpful comments that will enable us to make further improvements to the event. The most common suggestions for the future were more networking time, interactive sessions, talks by students like themselves, helpful hints for their studies, handouts