Spotlight: MPharm ethnicity awarding gap rewidens

The Pharmaceutical Journal’s third analysis of MPharm awarding gap data has revealed that the percentage point difference between the proportion of white students and minority ethnic students awarded a first or 2:1 degree increased to 11 percentage points in 2021/2022 and 2022/2023. This comes after previous analyses of the data from before and during the pandemic indicated a narrowing of the gap from 12 percentage points in 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 to 8 percentage points in 2019/2020 and 2020/2021. In this Spotlight episode of The PJ Pod, senior features editor Dawn Connelly shares what she learned from experts about why the gap has rewidened and what pharmacy schools and other pharmacy bodies, including the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, are doing to help produce more equitable MPharm outcomes.

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This episode was published on Mar 27, 2025.

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