Reading joins rush to open a new school of pharmacy
The University of Reading has become the sixth English university in the past two years to state an intention to open a new school of pharmacy. It hopes to take its first students in October 2005.
The university says that it is geographically well placed to offer a
master of pharmacy degree because this course is not currently taught
at any institutions in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire or Oxfordshire. The
nearest schools of pharmacy are in London, Portsmouth and Bath.
The Reading school will provide undergraduate education and postgraduate
research. The university also intends for it to serve as a regional centre
for postgraduate education for pharmacists and technicians in the Thames
Valley area. The university currently has research and teaching departments
in biomedical sciences, medicinal chemistry, nutraceuticals, food biosciences
and plant sciences.
The project is being led by Professor Gavin Brooks, MRPharmS, professor
of cardiovascular research at the university, who is likely to head the
new school. |
