THE Council of Pharmacy Schools Australia and New Zealand (CPS) has announced it will introduce a set of "standard priorities" to be implemented by all pharmacy schools over a five-year period, in order to ensure globally competitive performance in pharmacy education.
The move is one of several initiatives determined following the CPS annual general meeting earlier this month, which also saw a new executive team elected.
Professor Peter Little, head of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Queensland, is the organisation's new president, with Professor Debra Rowett from the University of South Australia elected as vice-president, while the group's treasurer is James Cook University's Associate Professor Michelle Bellingan.
The council represents eighteen pharmacy schools across Australia as well as two in New Zealand.
The new executive team will aim to raise the profile of CPS, "and increase the involvement of tertiary education providers in the future of the pharmacy profession both in Australia and internationally".
A new website and brand refresh is in the works, while CPS will increase its interaction with pharmacy organisations and stakeholders as well as explore advanced practice recognition.
Professor Little was previously Liaison Representative for CPS and Executive for Australian Pharmaceutical Sciences Australia (APSA), but will step down from both roles to focus on his CPS presidency.
"I am immensely proud to be elected president of CPS and am very much looking forward to engaging with APSA and other stakeholders such as the Pharmacy Guild, to continue the great work being done to advance the pharmacy profession," he said.
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