Is it time all schools of pharmacy increased their entry requirements. Too many people with average grades and no real desire to do pharmacy step into the course. I feel this is one of the reasons the profession is on a downwards spiral in relation to support and having a voice like gps.
You're right Asterix the more School's of Pharmacy that open up with mickey mouse grades, the more the degree is devalued in my opinion. I remember people going off to places like John Moores, Sunderland etc with C and D's and being told by my teachers at Grammar School that you would secure a job a lot quicker if you attended Queens. I later came to the conclusion that it didn't make on iota of difference which institution you attend.
yeah totally agree, although john moores has got better in recent years many say. Ulster have even opened up a school of pharmacy, dreadful in all essence. The likes of DMU, Portsmouth and Hertfordshire all a joke.
Don't really know what it's like now to be honest but I remember hearing a while back that it lost it's accreditation from the Society or was on the verge of losing it!
The reason why mickey mouse institutions such as wolverhampton, DMU, portsmouth, sunderland, john moores, kingston, etc.. open up pharmacy schools is because it's cheaper than establishing medical and dental schools, and it would give them some kind of credibility in the league tables. The grades that students enter those schools with is absolutely ridiculous, and students who study in those schools are generally of low academic calibre. My friend got into de montfort with 3 Cs. This makes the profession into a joke. a while back de montfort got into a lot of trouble for letting failing students pass. The Society should have removed their accreditation permanently, and done the same with wolverhampton.
i guess the name of the university you went to does go a long way though.....i can remember doing a summer placement, and was asked which uni i was at..i was at nottingham at the time. As soon as i said it there were a few raised eye brows around the room...majority had gone through john moores!
in todays world, even if they did up the grades for entry, everyone is getting straight As anyway, aren't they talking about introducing A*s at A level, as apparently its all getting too easy.............
I just graduated from the london school of pharmacy, and I too got a few raised eyebrows when i was asked where i studied, during an induction to a boots summer placement. The majority of the students at that induction were studying at the mickey mouse institutions i mentioned above.
Guys, though what you say is true, the real mickey mouse show is at Lambeth. We should long since have increased the 'entry requirements' for Lambeth, and maybe we would have had better leadership and fewer undeserving Fellows.
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