Pharmacy students to hold Dáil protest over qualification changes

They say changes to their pathway to qualification will leave them €25,000 worse off over the course of their degree in comparison with their predecessors.

Pharmacy students are to demonstrate outside the Dáil this Thursday in protest at changes to their pathway to qualification that they say will leave them €25,000 worse off over the course of their degree in comparison with their predecessors.

The sector’s regulator, the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland, has overseen a review process of the third-level course through which future pharmacists must graduate.