11/06/2019
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The student meeting
During the visit there is one meeting between the accreditors and students. Well before the accreditation visit your school will have asked for volunteers from each year of your course to take part in this meeting.
If you have volunteered to take part in the meeting you don’t need to prepare in advance, and during the meeting it doesn’t matter if you disagree with the views of the other students: sometimes a range of views is just as useful as a single view.
It’s important to remember that what is said in the meetings is confidential and that the GPhC doesn’t make a note of who says what. You won’t be mentioned by name in the accreditation report, the report will simply state that the accreditation team met with a group of students; including x number of students in year 1, x in year 2 etc. The report will provide a summary of the views of you and your fellow students e.g. ‘the majority of students that met with the accreditation team reported that they had good access to online journals’.
After the student meeting, the accreditors do feed back the main points to staff in the school, but not in such a way that they can be linked to anyone who was in the student meeting. The normal format of the feedback is ‘Students have told us ###X, what’s your view?’
The main things an accreditation team will want to know are:
• what you think of the school in general
• what you think about the student experience in general
• whether you think the course is preparing you to think and act like a healthcare professional
• what you think about the staff in general
• what you think about the teaching in general
• what you think about the facilities in general
• what you think about the resources in general (including online resources)
• How you have been engaged with the development of the new programmes
• what you think the main strengths of the school are
• whether there are areas that you think need improvement
The accreditation team won’t:
• quiz you about your pharmacy knowledge
• ask you questions about specific members of staff
• ask unprofessional questions which invite you to be indiscreet
Further information
You will find more information about the GPhC’s accreditation process at
The GPhC accredits and recognises pharmacy courses leading to registration and annotation. These are: