Society appoints first head of accreditation
Damian Day: “brings a
wealth of experience” |
The new post of head of accreditation within the Education and Registration Directorate of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society is to be filled by Damian Day.
Mr Day will join the Society’s staff on 17 January 2005 from Roehampton
University, where he is head of distributed learning and assistant director
of educational development in the education development centre.
He will work to develop and implement policies that affect the Society’s
undergraduate degree accreditation activities and will help with developing
the Society’s wider educational strategy.
The Society says that Mr Day has an extensive experience of quality assurance
and enhancement, having introduced the new quality and standards handbook
for taught programmes for the university as well as other higher education
policy documentation.
Mr Day is also a subject reviewer and institutional auditor for the Quality
Assurance Agency for Higher Education and an external examiner for City
University’s master of arts degree in academic practice.
Philip Green, the Society’s Deputy Secretary and Registrar and
Director of Education and Registration, said: “I am delighted to
welcome Damian to the Society. He brings a wealth of experience to the
role and I look forward to him strengthening and contributing to the
education team.”
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The
Pharmaceutical Journal