Escape winter in Oz by visting the UK

July sees the Durham Islamic Finance Summer School happening between 5th and 9th. This is a course that is run by Durham University, UK - and is well recognised as a top course for Islamic financiers.

The full programme can be seen here.

According to the organisers, 'Durham Islamic Finance Programme (DIFP), with its international reputation in theoretical and empirical research, aims to share its experience by hosting an annual Islamic Finance Summer School (DIFSS), which has proven to be very successful in the last four years, with 56 participants from all over the world in the 2009 Summer School. We are, therefore, confident that this annual event will be equally valuable for future participants, whether they are pursuing a career in Islamic banking and finance industry, or in financial service providers are debating whether to offer Shari’ah compliant products, or pursuing academic research in Islamic finance related fields. To make the programme more appealing to individuals from professional financial and banking sector, the session presenters are invited from the Islamic finance and banking industry'

Worth checking out.