The PJ Pod

Senior staff at two UK pharmacy schools - Reading and Wolverhampton - outline how they are tackling their ethnicity awarding gaps for MPharm degrees and the head of education at the General Pharmaceutical Council explains how its new standards may help improve the situation.

Looking outside of pharmacy, our careers editor Angela Kam also speaks with a recognised expert in how universities can tackle their ethnicity awarding gaps and discuss what works and, crucially, what does not.

Read more about this issue: https://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/careers-and-jobs/careers-and-jobs/career-feature/making-the-mpharm-fairer-what-can-be-done-about-the-ethnicity-awarding-gap/20208184.article

Careers editor Angela Kam speaks with four ethnic minority students about their experiences of going to university to study pharmacy and explores new evidence there is an "awarding gap" between them and white students studying the MPharm degree.

Publications officer at the British Pharmacy Students Association, Isobel Lowings, also speaks about her organisation’s position on the ethnicity awarding gap and what she thinks should be done about it.

Read more about this issue: https://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/careers-and-jobs/careers-and-jobs/career-feature/making-the-mpharm-fairer-what-can-be-done-about-the-ethnicity-awarding-gap/20208184.article