FIP, as the global leader for pharmacy, has taken the initiative to build the “FIP World List of Pharmacy Schools”, which will be the most comprehensive and up-to-date list of pharmacy institutions from around the world. This global list is intended to guide all pharmacy stakeholders, from students to policymakers, in assessing the appropriateness and effectiveness of pharmacy education strategies. The availability, completeness and quality of FIP’s World List of Pharmacy Schools means it will provide a unique source of information for pharmaceutical workforce policies, procedures and plans.
Further background on the FIP World List of Pharmacy Schools:
The FIP World List of Pharmacy Schools is an initiative to monitor pharmaceutical capacity and capability, similar to those of many other global organisations, such as the World Medical Schools List held by the World Medical Association. Given 2021 is the World Health Organization’s Year of Health and Care Workers, the need for our global organisations to demonstrate increased capacity in all health workers is key to ensure our professions are not further diminished but amplified.
FIP is a founder member of the World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA) with doctors, nurses, dentists, and physiotherapists. All WHPA members have been requested to feedback their schools’ status to the WHO as part of pandemic preparedness, and FIP having a list of accredited pharmacy schools will help to identify where schools may be needed and created to ensure long-term pharmaceutical workforce capacity.
University of Wolverhampton
School of Pharmacy
The University of Wolverhampton has approximately 22,000 students and has a strong local and regional impact. As the ‘University of Opportunity’ it has a key role within the West Midlands region of England and a significant track record of raising education standards in regional schools, leading the drive for improvement of underperforming schools in the region and supporting them to raise the aspiration levels of young people in the area.
The University has a portfolio encompassing biosciences, social sciences, construction, engineering, law, computing, business management, education, health and wellbeing, and creative and performing arts and is renowned internationally for the quality of programmes. As well as continuing to deliver effective teaching and learning in key subject areas, this University is growing the portfolio of courses aimed at the economic needs of the region. reflected in the advance of our science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) based provision helping our students to develop the skillsets to achieve their ambitions.
The University is fully committed to enhancing the student experience and the learning and teaching environment, particularly focusing on student support, innovative teaching, scholastic development and research-informed teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
University of Wolverhampton has a well-developed sense of purpose in widening access and securing student success with a commitment to a holistic approach to an inclusive and accessible curriculum. The University defines widening access as providing opportunities and making sure individuals are able to maximise that opportunity requiring a particular focus on transition to higher education, a supportive learning environment, a recognition of diversity, support into graduate employment and postgraduate study. The student body is very diverse and the University has one of the highest proportions of students from low income groups, a high proportion of students from minority ethnic groups, significant numbers of part-time and mature learners, as well as a rapidly growing intake of disabled students. All of this builds on the University’s heritage and seeks to secure an inclusive environment.
The University is committed to being a major global player and is increasingly developing key partnerships to secure further growth. In recent years there has been a significant growth in transnational education (TNE) partnerships and numbers are continuing to grow. There are also significant international research links in the faculties.
As well as enhancing students' employability, the University is highly regarded within the region and beyond for the help gives its commercial partners. It works with businesses of all sizes, from the small and medium sized enterprise (SME) community to larger national companies, in support of research and development, the placement of students into business and in discrete project assignments.