Tag: graduates
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No need for vet nurses?
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A fellow Vetsonline blogger, Will Easson, recently wrote a post about the potential impact of an increased number of vet grads, in which he kindly remembered veterinary nurses. (Editor’s note: In his post “Recruitment and retention“, Will suggests that the increasing number of UK graduates searching for employment could result not just in a scarcity of…
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A vet school storm on the horizon
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Following last year’s announcement that the University of Surrey is to open a new veterinary school (taking in the first cohort of students in autumn 2014), it would appear that the University of Ulster (Northern Ireland) is now jumping on the bandwagon. These proposals have indeed kicked up quite a storm in the veterinary world.…
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Too many graduates, not enough jobs?
No doubt spurred on by a survey carried out by the Institute of Employment Studies (on behalf of the RCVS), this last week has seen an interesting focus on the availability of jobs within the veterinary profession. Curiously enough, the survey seems to show that the increasing number of graduates over the past few years…
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Padraig Egan on internships
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Padraig has recently finished a 12-month internship at Fitzpatrick Referrals. Here he talks about his experiences and how graduates can go about finding what’s right for them. Unusually, rather than starting his internship straight from vet school, Padraig took it on after more than four years in practice, when he realised he wasn’t finding fulfilment…
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Tracking degrees?
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Earlier this week, I was asked my opinion on the proposal of “tracked” veterinary degrees. All the time, the bigwigs are trying to think of innovative ways to change veterinary education to produce the best prepared graduates they can for the big wide world. The new idea compromises the suggestion of either “partially tracked” or…