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Anyone know of a fast-track post grad Pharmacy course?
Do they exist? If so, where?
Cheers for anyone's help
Cheers for anyone's help
Nope, I'm pretty sure you have to do the full four years regardless of what your first degree is. It's because pharmacy is such a mixture of stuff. I've known people who've done a chemistry degree before doing pharmacy and they've still had to do the whole four years, no exemptions with anything.
I did a medicinal chemistry degree at UCL (BSc), attained a first. Started my first job in the summer of 2006 and realised it is so boring working in the pharmaceutical industry, essentially being told what to do.
I applied to LSOP for the course, already knowing there are no fast track courses. A real shame considering i always regarded pharmacy liases with other professions such as medicine and dentistry.
Anyways I have been saving money for the course from my work, and let me tell you saving £3000 for each of the four years of the fourth coming course is hard. Its like having nothing to live on now.
Not only that there is no help from the government for the degree, a real killer if i must say so.
See below
"It may be helpful for me to explain the previous study regulations for those who have previously studied for a degree. From September 2006, support is available for the length of a student’s course, plus one extra year if needed, less any years of previously supported higher education (HE) study. With the exception of supplementary grants, all new and existing students who have previously gained an honours degree from a UK institution (regardless of who provided the funding for that degree) will not be eligible for fee or loan support for any future course.
As you know, the only exemption to this rule is for those with an Honours degree who subsequently undertake a second degree in one of a defined set of professions as described in Regulation 5(6) of the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2006. Ministers agreed that students do not as a matter of course need a second degree to find alternative employment. On the other hand, there is a stronger case to be made where it is the only route to a profession (ie medicine). It is for this reason that the following are protected: medical doctor, dentist, veterinary doctor, architect, landscape architect, landscape designer, landscape manager, town planner or town and country planner. I am afraid pharmacy is not included within the defined list of professions in the Regulations and therefore you would not qualify for further fee or loan support for your studies. There are no plans currently to add further courses to the list.
You may wish to explore the possibility of obtaining financial assistance from outside of the public sector. You may not be aware that there are a number of trusts and charities, which, so far as their resources allow, may be prepared to assist students by means of small grants or loans. There are standard lists in most publi c reference libraries and, if you have not already done so, you should consult the Educational Grants Directory, published by the Directory of Social Change. Other useful publications are the Charities Digest, published by Waterlow Legal Publishing; the Grants Register, published by Macmillan Press; and the Directory of Grant making Trusts, published by the Charities Aid Foundation. Not all of the trusts listed in these publications will make grants to individual students and those that do are likely to have specific eligibility criteria. I would advise you to check your eligibility before submitting an application.
I realise you may be disappointed with this response, but I am sure you will appreciate that the Government has to balance the needs of students against the cost to the taxpayers, who already heavily subsidise the student support arrangements"
So i may well be screwed big time, I mean its dam hard knowing that £3000 of your savings will be gone in 1 year + I have to think that there will be a lot of other expenses which I can not predict now.
If there was a fast track course it will save so much money, possibly cutting it down to 3 years.
Anyway if you are a graduate and thinking of going into pharmacy, please contact me, or post here. I would really like to know how others are planning to go about it
Regards
I applied to LSOP for the course, already knowing there are no fast track courses. A real shame considering i always regarded pharmacy liases with other professions such as medicine and dentistry.
Anyways I have been saving money for the course from my work, and let me tell you saving £3000 for each of the four years of the fourth coming course is hard. Its like having nothing to live on now.
Not only that there is no help from the government for the degree, a real killer if i must say so.
See below
"It may be helpful for me to explain the previous study regulations for those who have previously studied for a degree. From September 2006, support is available for the length of a student’s course, plus one extra year if needed, less any years of previously supported higher education (HE) study. With the exception of supplementary grants, all new and existing students who have previously gained an honours degree from a UK institution (regardless of who provided the funding for that degree) will not be eligible for fee or loan support for any future course.
As you know, the only exemption to this rule is for those with an Honours degree who subsequently undertake a second degree in one of a defined set of professions as described in Regulation 5(6) of the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2006. Ministers agreed that students do not as a matter of course need a second degree to find alternative employment. On the other hand, there is a stronger case to be made where it is the only route to a profession (ie medicine). It is for this reason that the following are protected: medical doctor, dentist, veterinary doctor, architect, landscape architect, landscape designer, landscape manager, town planner or town and country planner. I am afraid pharmacy is not included within the defined list of professions in the Regulations and therefore you would not qualify for further fee or loan support for your studies. There are no plans currently to add further courses to the list.
You may wish to explore the possibility of obtaining financial assistance from outside of the public sector. You may not be aware that there are a number of trusts and charities, which, so far as their resources allow, may be prepared to assist students by means of small grants or loans. There are standard lists in most publi c reference libraries and, if you have not already done so, you should consult the Educational Grants Directory, published by the Directory of Social Change. Other useful publications are the Charities Digest, published by Waterlow Legal Publishing; the Grants Register, published by Macmillan Press; and the Directory of Grant making Trusts, published by the Charities Aid Foundation. Not all of the trusts listed in these publications will make grants to individual students and those that do are likely to have specific eligibility criteria. I would advise you to check your eligibility before submitting an application.
I realise you may be disappointed with this response, but I am sure you will appreciate that the Government has to balance the needs of students against the cost to the taxpayers, who already heavily subsidise the student support arrangements"
So i may well be screwed big time, I mean its dam hard knowing that £3000 of your savings will be gone in 1 year + I have to think that there will be a lot of other expenses which I can not predict now.
If there was a fast track course it will save so much money, possibly cutting it down to 3 years.
Anyway if you are a graduate and thinking of going into pharmacy, please contact me, or post here. I would really like to know how others are planning to go about it
Regards
i am too a graduate planning to do pharmacy , i was mistaken in thinking that i will get a student loan to help with my living expense but no help on tution fee.Am i right?I am planning to get a bank loan to cover my school fee while my saving and student loan will cover my living expense.......if you dont mind we can chat over this on msn.........
so obviously there's aren't any such courses at the moment. Does anyone know anything about the possibility of one in the future? Is anyone going to a uni thats thinking of establishing one in the future?
Thanks for all the help so far!
Thanks for all the help so far!
jackson0100
i am too a graduate planning to do pharmacy , i was mistaken in thinking that i will get a student loan to help with my living expense but no help on tution fee.Am i right?I am planning to get a bank loan to cover my school fee while my saving and student loan will cover my living expense.......if you dont mind we can chat over this on msn.........
ok i have added you to my msn, my msn name is edited - don't display e-mail addresses publically. Look forward to speaking to you.
I am only on at the weekends, you can email if u want and i will get back to you
dang. See my plan is to firstly go and do the undergraduate degree of my dreams, then do Pharmacy postgrad. Just like some other on here, it'll mean I somehow have to find a way to finance the whole thing. Ah well
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