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Interesting trends in Customs university programmes | WCO News

An increasing diversity of qualifications is now being offered

Professor David Widdowson President, International Network of Customs Universities

WCO News, World Customs Organisation, 100, March 23

March 12, 2023

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Interesting trends in Customs university programmes | WCO News

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Topic: knowledge management

The business of Customs is extremely complex, and yet, until very recently, there was no academic recognition of Customs as a profession. Unlike lawyers, accountants, engineers and others who are able to point to some form of diploma that indicates they are professionals in their field, no equivalent existed for Customs officials. This changed in the 1990s, thanks to three like-minded individuals who had been developing Customs-specific curricula in their universities – Münster in Germany, Riga in Latvia and Canberra in Australia.

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