Universities

Ethnicity awarding gap for UK pharmacy graduates narrowed during COVID-19 pandemic

Exclusive: Data analysis suggests a 4-percentage-point drop in the difference between the proportions of white and ethnic minority MPharm graduates awarded an upper-class degree.…

University of Leicester launches first distance-learning independent prescriber course

The university aims to train 250 pharmacists each year through its distance-learning course, which it says was developed following “employer demand”.…

No pharmacists apply for fully funded place on genomic medicine course

Exclusive: There have been no applications for funded places on the genomic medicine postgraduate course at Swansea University since the funding was allocated in 2019.…

UK pharmacy school admissions increased by 14% in 2021

A total of 4,400 MPharm places were offered in 2021, just a few months after pharmacists were added to the Home Office's shortage occupation list.…

MPharm student intake increases by more than 10% for second year running

Exclusive: Data show that 4,148 new students began their first year of an MPharm degree in 2020–2021, compared with 3,743 in 2019–2020.…

The COVID-19 campus: MPharm studying during the pandemic

We look at how students and staff at pharmacy schools have fared during the COVID-19 pandemic.…

Greater proportion of white students awarded upper class pharmacy degrees, compared with BAME students

Exclusive:  An analysis of data by The Pharmaceutical Journal reveals for the first time that a significantly lower proportion of black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) students are awarded a higher MPharm degree, compared with their white counterparts. …

How we have facilitated workplace-based assessments amid social distancing measures

Social distancing measures implemented to combat the COVID-19 pandemic have presented many challenges in the workplace. On the clinical pharmacy postgraduate diploma at the Liverpool John Moores University we need to balance compliance with these measures without compromising a practitioner’s …

What you are saying about pharmacy degree apprenticeships

Your responses to our call for opinions on the plans to offer an alternative route into pharmacy.…

How the pharmacy profession disregarded me and my disability, and why it must change

One pharmacist’s experience of discrimination, owing to their disabilities, shows that the profession still has a long way to go towards equality.…