We are proud that many of our alumni take up senior level appointments in industry when they leave the firm and it is a reflection of our ability to add to our people's skills.

Our people benefit from world-class learning and professional education as they develop exceptional careers and business experience. During FY14, we invested £27 million on our people’s learning and education - an average of over £1,800 per person ². In total, our staff received more than half a million hours of training in FY14³. This includes the official launch of Deloitte University in Europe in December 2013, part of a global strategy that focuses on the development of leadership and business advisory skills for our management and partner populations and provides attendees with the valuable opportunity to work alongside colleagues from across Deloitte member firms in Europe.

This relentless focus on learning and development forms a key part of our pursuit of the highest quality and integrity in our professional work. We provide extensive training with online programmes to educate our people on a range of key issues, such as anti-money laundering, anti-bribery and information security. Ethics learning is also embedded into various classroom-based programmes across the firm. In addition to our wide-ranging education schemes, we also have well-established systems and procedures in place to help safeguard the objectivity of our people, helping ensure we avoid conflicts of interest and comply with ethical and other key standards.